Friday, we arrived at Castaway Cay. It's usually our favorite day of the cruise. However, this year we had a bit of rain.
I was up early so I got to watch as the captain backed our ship into the dock. It was pretty cool!
Castaway Cay on a warm and overcast day.
We had breakfast that morning at the buffet. Conner and Calissa were getting along soooo well!
Smile for the camera!
We got off the ship pretty early to get a good spot on the beach. Of course, we had to stop for a picture in front of the huge Christmas tree on the island!
There were Christmas decorations wherever we went.
Dumbo taking care of some painting on the ship while we were docked.
We found some beach chairs and staked our claim!
Conner looks happy, right?
Dad and Calissa about to get into the water.
Calissa and I
The ship from the beach.
The not crowded beach.
Calissa happy to be in the water!
Sisters-in-law!
Calissa and Grandma swimming in the ocean.
The boys playing football.
(Love the dark clouds in the distance?)
Then it started to sprinkle ... then it started to rain.
Drew's family!
Who cares about the rain? It was warm and we were in the water anyway.
Then, we decided to head over to the water slide. Here we are getting ready to climb onto the platform.
Then, climbing down the platform. We got up to the top of the slide and the lifeguards saw lightning ... so we all had to evacuate the water! (We thought it would have been faster to go down the slide, instead of the stairs, but they said no.
So, we hiked back (in the pouring rain) to our beach chairs to get our stuff out of the rain.
Then we took shelter at the eating pavilion while it POURED!!
Drew's family walking back to the ship (about a mile) in the pouring rain!
We decided while we were waiting to see if the storm would blow over, we might as well eat.
It was crazy since everything was soaking wet. Once we were done and looked at the sky it didn't seem like it would let up anytime soon, so we decided to hike back to the ship. We used out towels to protect our bags, but they still got pretty wet. My flip flops are memory foam and foamed between my toes every step I took. Finally, I just took them off and walked back bare foot.
One we got back to the ship we had to stand in a huge line to get back on the ship. Everything was dripping! Our bags and hats took 2 days to dry! However, we dumped our towels as we got on the ship and the greeted us with warm, dry towels ... it was heaven! We climbed back up to the 8th floor laughing all the way about our adventure and then took a "selfie" on the balcony. Fun memories for the day!
After showers, we headed to the deck to relax on a recliner and read. The skies cleared up, but by that time most everyone was back on the ship out of the rain.
It was another beautiful sunset!
Gorgeous!
That night we had the good-bye show ... "See Ya' Real Soon!" Charlie and Sam made it into the show with one of their pictures from the trip. We had dinner tonight in the Royal Court and packed up our bags to put them outside our door ... sad that our vacation was drawing to an end!
Calissa with our final towel art for the trip.
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