Tuesday, June 21, 2011

CRUISE 2011!!!

PLEASE READ FIRST!!!!
Allow yourself a good chunk of time to look at this post! It's probably the longest one I've EVER done! That being is because I had to fit 1 whole week of AMAZING INCREDIBLE FUN in ONE blog post!


So I FINALLY got our CRUISE up and going!!!
This was the cruise for Craig's (father-in-law) 60th birthday!
 It's been THREE months ago that we went So I wanted to get this up before June ended! I have been putting it off and putting it off because I KNEW it was gonna take FOREVER and it did! But enjoy seeing our amazing time we had! All pics are pretty much in perfect order of events!
Enjoy!
We were in our taxi just pulling up to our ship! Btw The Oasis of the Seas is today the LARGEST cruise ship yet! And it was HUGE!
We were all just AMAZED by everything!
Right when you step on you can't believe your eyes!
This a picture of the outside of the elevators! So cool!
Standing out on our balcony! It was such an amazing view!
We could see out to the ocean!
Let me explain my husbands shirt!
 Well....there's no explanation other than if you know him this wouldn't surprise you at all!
He was just displaying his love for his red headed wife by strutting around in a shirt with Ariel on it hahah!
With my beautiful sis-in-laws! Rachel and Truly! I had so much fun with the gals!
brother and sisters that love eachother very much!

It was so cute! Craig had us all come in his room and brought out this suitcase with all kinds of goodies and things for all of us! It really was neat what he was gonna pull out next!
Thank you Craig!
He got us all flags to hang out on our balconies! We loved ours!

We all had really fun ones!
And Truly loves RAINBOWS!
There they are!

Out on the deck waiting to sail away from Florida!
Keith and his daddy!
Love it Craig!
I have many pics of my hair floating all over because of the wind! And the funny thing is, it's always just MY hair!


Sailing away!
When we were leaving there were a ton of people in the water and we were on the very top of the ship! We looked down and could see a bunch of people mooning us hahaha! it was pretty funny!
They had a really neat kid pool area! Which of coarse made me miss my kids:(
I had a REALLY hard time leaving my babies! I have NEVER done it before! The longest I've ever been away from them was like 2-3 hrs! So it was very hard! But once I got doing fun stuff I was all good! I knew they were being well taken care of by my family! And they did really good for my fam!
Of coarse I missed their cute faces everyday:)


Another pic of Keith that your not surprised haha!
I joined in on the fun!
And I got a HUGE bruise on my inner thigh from the corner of his apron!


Getting airbrushed tatoos! They actually lasted like all week! it was pretty funny and cool to see Craig doing it to! He actually sat down and did it first and we came walking up and Keith wanted to be like his daddy;)
Cool dudes!
hahahaha LOVE this pic!

Outside of a very cute icecream shop!
This sunset was soooo beautiful!

Love this pic of Craig and Nancy pants!
Outside! Very windy!
And yep! look whos hair is floating all over! MINE!
This is what we looked down on from our rooms! Yep that's a carousel! Another thing that made me miss my kiddos! It was so cute!


Eating lobster or crab or whatever all those other folks I'm with are eating! I do not like seafood! I wish I did! I know how good it is for you! but I have tried alot of it and it just doesn't taste good and it smells!
Hey! At least I can say I've tried it!
They were doing a little dancing on the back of the ship on the stage! It was fun to go and do it! I miss performing! It was such a big part of me for more than half my life! So it was fun to go and do a little bit of  movin and twistin!
It felt good to know I still can pick up on choreography fast!
 I guess that never leaves you! Haha Infact my sis-in-law Truly yelled to me, how in the heck do you know this so fast! I just said, I've done it all my life! It just happens!
We were so proud of us!

Rachel and I got to judge the sexiest man contest! It was so fun and funny! You have no idea what i did to be a judge! I danced and got up on a bench and was trying to do cool stuff and almost twisted my ankle from slipping off hahaha! it was so funny! We had a great time!
Yes yes, this is some of what we got to see! We don't have pics of my fav guy who took his clothes off with just his speedo on and left his socks on and did a backwards roll right to the audience butt and all! hahahaa oh I'm laughing just thinking of it!!!
Hahaha poor Rachel!
This was actually the guy incharge of the show who was giving a demo doing push ups on Rachel's chair!
Allen (Rachel's husband) joined the contest! Keith was gonna do it but he came to late from our room! That would've been funny!
Yes Allen played it up!

And he even went and danced with his wife:)
This was the best!
hahahahaha!
We crowned the old man the WINNER!

Allen got a medal for best butt!
They had the broadway musical Hairspray on the ship! It was actually the first broadway to ever go on a cruise line! It was sooooo good!
Hot tubbin!



Haha Truly we look like a couple!

Yes we are in a hot tub with the OCEAN behind us!
 It was so cool! The first night we were on the ship Keith and I went to a hot tub and we had the ocean air blowing over us and we looked up and there was a full moon! it was incredible! I wish we had our camera!

The sunsets were amazing!
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Our first formal night dinner!
It was so fun to dress up all fancy! It's not something you always get to do so it's fun to beable to do it on these nights! funny all us girls were in blue!

Dinner time was the best! The food really is one of the best parts of the cruise! We all would honestly order like 2 or 3 appetizers, 2 entrees, and 2-3 desserts! No wonders they say people gain weight after a cruise!
Our server!
This is Mac! He was such a great person to have around! We were so happy to have him every night!
I really love this picture!
I really felt I grew even closer to these girls on this trip! I already felt close, but this just sealed it:) love you both!
So sweet
Love this pic of my honey with his mommy!
We took a walk out on the boardwalk which was one of our favs
Love this pic Truly!
Family love!
Allen and I felt left out, so we did an in law photo! Isn't it pretty?!
OK now serious
It was so neat to see everyone all dressed up!
OK! So we went to the top of the ship! And oh my gosh it was soooooo windy! We had SO MUCH FUN! The ocean wind was honestly tossing us around! we were laughing so hard! Probably one of our favorite moments!
haha look at my hair!
I can just feel the wind looking at this picture!
We could hardly walk down the stairs!

HAITI!!!
Haiti was GORGEOUS! The beach was so pretty!



BIG SHIP!!!

Haha ok! So Keith and I had found an awesome spot we were saving for everyone! One of the beach workers came up and asked how many chairs we wanted! Keith told him 7! Well he just kept setting up more  and more! Keith told him don't set up anymore cause we want this like our private area we don't want other people coming! And the guy said ok! You wan t 7? We said yes! He just kept setting up more and more!
Looks like more than 7!!!!
He even set up the chairs that are in the back!
It was pretty funny!
The water was so pretty!
Just enjoying the Haiti breeze!
Yeah this is something you will NEVER see me do! I do not sun bathe! I will sit in the sun for warmth, but I will never go and lay in it like this! Me and the sun don't mix well:)
But they sure look cute!
We had a yummy lunch provided for us there!
 I actually think it was from the ship! either way it was good!

Going on the roller coaster!

So the visor I was wearing blew off right at the end as we were coming around a corner! I was so sad! I loved my lake Powell hat! I for sure thought I was not gonna get it back! Keith saw where it fell off and asked the Haiti workers if he could climb and go get it! They said tell us where it is and we will go look! I couldn't believe it ! They really went and looked for it! There's no way that would've happened anywhere else! They would've told me sorry! it's gone! Well they couldn't find it so Keith said I know where it is! One of the guys said  lets go on the roller coaster and you can take me there! So Keith got on with one of the Haiti guys sitting between his legs hahahaha! I wasn't there but I would've loved to see that! Well they found it and I got my cute lake Powell visor back yay!!!
There's our ship!
it was so cool to see that as we came up over the hill!
I told Keith that the beach reminded me of the tv series LOST!
Look how pretty!!!
The view behind us is pretty to hahaha!
No really, the view was beautiful!
Us 3 gals went and got some spa pampering done!
This was the room you wait in til they come and get you!
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After the beach day we went ice skating on the ship!
it was fun! Especially wearing the helmets haha!




Lookin good Tru!
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Time for dinner!

This dessert was so yummy!
So we went to the Love and Marriage show! keith wanted to do it and I thought it would be fun to!
At first they chose a newly wed couple who had to sort of audition for it, than they found an older couple who had been married for 55 yrs who they made do it haha! For the couple who had been married for 2 yrs or longer had to come up and audition! So thats keith and I and many other couples who wanted to do it! The way we audtioned was whoever had the best kiss! Well when they said go Keith and I made it as commical and funny and the best we could! We couldnt see the other couples but we just made it the best we could! Well the audiance choses by how loud they clap and cheer! When it came to Keith and I the audiance cheered so loud we couldn't believe it! So we were the chosen couple! We had such a good time! It was so fun! Sometimes a little freaky being put on the spot, but it was fun! After the show we were known as Utah! Seriously people would see us and say hey it's Utah! It was pretty funny!


The older couple won and we placed 2nd! We actually became friends with them and still are!
We are fb friends:)
We won some pretty neat stuff! We won some spa stuff and I got a pearl necklace!
It was a really good time
It was fun to see what they were gonna have our towels like everynight!
I thought it was cute that they would put our glasses on them to!

JAMAICA!!!
It was beautiful in Jamaica!
 We had such a fun day! We were going on the zip line! It went through the tropical forest which was gorgeous! And we got poured on! Fun memories!

Truly our tour guide!
haha there's our tour guide!
We were pretty cold from the rain!
Getting all strapped up!


WEEEEE!
We look gooooood!

Allens shirt is wet from the rain!
 We honestly hiked in the rain! It was so cold! finally it went away! but it made for a good laugh!

My best picture ever! lol!


I thought it was so neat that Craig and Nancy pants went on the zip line to!
You guys are awesome!
And it was even more awesome when Nancy was learning the Jamaican language hahahahah!




Walking through this was unreal with how pretty and cool it was!
Check out that bamboo behind us!
This was gorgeous!




I loved this path with the palm trees!
I've always told Keith someday I want a path of trees like this!
It's so theraputic for me and calming:)
This is where they served us lunch!
This was really neat!
Keith and I agreed that we would like a part of our future home like this;)
This peacock was just walking around and was so pretty!



This water fall area was so neat! It was really pretty to!


Great picture!
Go honey! Wait, that's your sister hahaha! jk!


As we drove through town to go back to the ship there were so many kids that would wave to us!
 It was Cute!

Boarding the ship!
It was so cool when we were sailing away!
They had a band down there and they played our national anthem!
 It was really touching!
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We saw the guy singing group called Mosaic which was incredible!
They won America's got Talent and they so deserved it! They were so good!
We got some pics with them!
We went to a game show and they came and chose me out of the audiance to do it! That's the same lady who did the Love and Marriage show with us! she got chosen to do this show to!
It was really fun and funny!

And here we are again!
 Her and her husband are from Israel and are such a sweet couple! They were so funny on the Love and marriage show!


The belly flop contest!
This show was great!
At the spa getting ready to go and enjoy what we won from the Love and Marriage show!


It was so relaxing
This part of the ship was so cool!
I kept thinking of my dad and how he would have loved to come and just sit and relax in this area!
It was just like a lounge but had the old ship look and feeling and even smell!
The rope below actually really did smell like cedar smoke or something, they wanted it to have the smell of an old ship!
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This was our last formal dress night!


Then we went and did a little dancing with a show they put on!
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Mexico/Cozmuel


It was so beautiful here!

Keith and I and Nancy all went to Tulum to see the ancient Mayan ruins, and the rest of the gang went to some underground caves!
Washing my hands outside the restroom! The sink bowls were so neat!


It was really cool to see these old ancient ruins and learn the history behind it!

Sitting back from the ruins is the ocean! It was soooooo pretty!

LOVE this picture hahaha!
 Had to throw it in there! My hair blowing once again!


I kept thinking a pirate was gonna pop out from somewhere haha!
 It was such a cool view!


Our tour guide!
Drinking coconut milk from the coconut!
Oh my it was sooooo good and refreshing!
Love this picture! Mostly took it for my dad! I knew he would love it!

We were sitting a real mexican restaurant, eating real mexican food, drinking pina colodas, looking right out to the ocean! Can we say amazing?!
I almost forgot to type this til I was just remimded,which I would've remembered cause I did think to put this! Anyway, thanks Tru!  While we were sitting here enjoying our wonderful pina colodas, we actually were suppose to be on the ship! Someone told us the wrong time as to when we needed to be on the ship and it screwed us up when we were suppose to be back on the ship! Anyway, we said to ourselves we should probably be getting back! So we got a taxi and headed back to the ship! Well when we were walking back to the ship there was a ton of other people walking! there was another ship there but so there were other people walking so we figured they were heading to our ship to! Well we see our family standing at the top of the ship yelling hurry the ship is leaving! Nancy and I were just waving our hats like it was the best day and really thought they were just playing with us! Well Keith stopped at security way back behind is cause he baught a knife! As we approached the ship seriously they were starting to lift the plank up! We were like wait! We are suppose to be here! They took our cards and said is there another guy!? Keith's pic popped up I said yes thats my husband he's coming! I looked in the far distance and could see Keith sprinting to the ship! I said he's coming! We kind of got scolded for being late thanks to the dumb guy who told us different! Keith made it to the ship and they let him on and then literally pulled the gate up! Keith was the LAST person out of thousands of people to get back on the ship! We honeslty would have been left behind if we were any later! But it was fun to say that Keith was the very last person on the ship haha!
Meanwhile this is what the rest of our gang was doing!
These caves they were in look incredible! that would've been really neat to see!

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This is what the center of our dinner table always looked like!

Love my honey!
That car was so cool!

You felt like you were in a really nice mall on this floor of the ship!

I love these next fews pics of Craiger and Nancy pants! I took them:)

This was one of the comedians! He was so funny! We had some good laughs!

Did a little dancing to!
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Getting ready to go across the zip line on the ship!
So Keith went across before me and had his legs spread eagle! I told Truly do the ugliest thing when you go across! When I went I did like hurkies in the air and clicked my heels together and whatever else that came to mind it the short few seconds! It was pretty funny I guess! At least Truly told me the guy that hooked us up said nice Charayye, and told Truly that was the best one he'd seen all day lol!
Truly's was pretty good to!
We are hot honey!
Since all 3 of us had our black swimsuits on, I wanted some fun photos!
We had a good time!


I love my mom-in-law hahah!
Nancy! This is so funny!
I just went around and posed on all the little statues that were on the golf course haha!
We all were getting creative haha!
Good times!
Love this Rachel!
Sometimes it would get crazy at the pools!


These were actually 2 of the guys from that Mosaic group that we watched perform! We all got to know them while chilling in the hot tub!
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This was our very last dinner night!
We ate at a restaurant called Chops! It was so good! The food was amazing! It was sad it was all coming to an end! We had such a good time!
I didn't realize my honey was looking at me in this pic!
I thought it was just so cute!


Us 3 girls all got Nancy and all of us pretty anklets!
We wanted to do something nice for Her and Craig for taking us on this incredible trip!
 Craigs gift is still coming:)




Ankle socks! nice babe!

We just walked around the ship for the last night!

Kicked off our heels!
 I really love this pic Tru!
What a fun memory of us walking around the ship barefoot just soaking up all the amazing things we experienced!
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This was our guy who cleaned our rooms and made them perfect everyday!
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Below was a large painting that was right above our dinner table! It was very neat!

Thank you Craig and Nancy for THE BEST and most INCREDIBLE vacation I've EVER had!
I can't wait to take our kids on a Disney Cruise now:)
There were SO MANY amazing fun memories I will ALWAYS have! I'm sure I speak for everyone else on that! We love you so very much!
Thank you for everything!

12 comments:

Truly and Shane said...

a couple more things: nice how how keith was THEE last person on the ship and you and mom were just waving your hands and wearing your hats like you were little privileged princess dianna's.

I was the best damn tour guide you've ever had!

Mosaic was incredible! but guess what :(
I talked to Josh the other day and he's breaking up the group. Says it was time and he is working on another new gig and is beyond excited about it. Seriously he says it will go far. He just rehearsed with DOnny Osmond who put loads of money behind him. He promised us all a free show front row this fall. Anyway what a trip!

Truly and Shane said...

dude!! I wrote the longest funniest comment and it got erased! Ugh! Annoying....
I was saying I never ever get on blogs, it's just not my thing these days. But I was trying to get to your etsy account and couldn't remember the name and when I saw this monster post I decided I have to comment on the best trip of a lifetime! Honestly when to even begin is a struggle in itself. I swear I gained 10 pounds alone that week. I know good food when I taste it and the Oasis didn't disappoint! I think I had 12 lobsters that one formal night. and the steak at Chops blew any steak I've ever had at Sundance out of the water!
I loved how you were famous on that ship. You were in every competition and people saw you i the elevator and would high five you. lmao! The marriage show? What the hell? I came out of the bathroom and saw you and Keith on stage and almost fell over laughing. Then you and Rach judged the sexiest man alive contest and all those guys were all over you two. Rach was dancing with that one abs guy and speaking of abs I still laugh how you guys mistook Matt for the abs winner and even funnier that he went along with it strutting his medal around. Speaking of Matt, we were laughing one night at the pool bc he said some girl had a rainbow flag hanging from her balcony! Hahahahaha remember when Keith said I would have some heavy set women knocking on my door late at night? The problem is we never slept, oh wait yes you guys did- almost right through the crab lunch and we know how much you love crab lol. One of my all time fav memories is our photo shoot with Keith, the photographer, on the golf course! That one guy passed us and asked mom if we were drunk and I said it was 5 o clock somewhere and no one was driving that night lol our poses were rate really adult....what were we thinking! I loved how you and keith stayed up all night at the clubs and danced little a hot horny dingle couple would! Oh and the first night when we almost became a scene from overboard was pretty damn funny. We almost blew off that ship!!

Truly and Shane said...

my dad must know i'm a lesbian at heart!!

Keith and Charayye said...

Hahaha Truly!!! You're so funny! A lesbian at heart really?! There were so many funny memories on that trip! Thanks for your funny comments:) It was an amazing trip!

Kim said...

Charayye, thanks for taking the time to do your blog and show everybody all of your good times. It looks like you married in to an amazingly fun and wonderful family.... You and Keith are so cute together..... Hope all is well with you and your beautiful family. Take care girl :) KIM

emily+brett said...

what a fun trip. your cruise looks like it was so much better than the one we went on. and your stops looked unbelievable.

Truly and Shane said...

Oh dear it's me again.
You text me the other day about when the flirtatious Jamaican zip-line guide was bouncing you i the 'you know where' and I couldn't stop laughing. Out loud. It wasn't until I looked over, in the seriously pouring rain mind you, and was like uh Charayye and pointed down at you. hahaha we had so much gear on you couldn't even feel it. (Don't worry for anyone else reading this... it really wasn't that inappropriate or I wouldn't write about it on here) then he asked you if I was taken then promptly announced I was his. I was borderline scared. LOL and when our ship left the Jamaican Island I almost cried. They were sooo humble and I felt like a rich piece of crap. We have so much here in the states. I swear I felt like a real celebrity, honestly. Taking pics with those kids and giving that one child my bracelet I was wearing filled my heart so much. I love how other ships have been to the island but nothing even CLOSE to the Royal Caribbean Oasis and they said they were witnessing history. I mean they even called school and work off. Loved seeing those cute cute uniforms on all the children. I almost died! And when they played our national anthem it was crazy crazy CRAZY awesome!! Ah man, now I'm on a roll with memories....
our day at the spa was sooooo nice. Minus my head massage I was like, thats it? But we all came out looking like relaxed zombies! I wish my dad or Keith did the belly flop contest. I think that was the only contest, competition, show someone in our family wasn't involved in. I mean seriously we owned that week! That one game show was one highlight. Too bad you weren't our judge. I can't believe our team fit 24 freaking people on that little swim towel. I was like a leech on that dude back. then someone jumped on mine. We just kept building up. ANd then out of nowhere Rachel ran don there and throws herself into the splits LOL. I allmost did the bra thing but couldnt do the thong one! Richard our cruise director was my big crush for the week... he really did look like Shane huh! He was THEE funniest person I think I've ever met. Loved dancing with you and rach on the stage on the board walk. I was always one step behind it felt like but you and Rachel were right there with the choreographer. But i was quite a good DJ that night at the Solarium bar. Making friends with those guys was fun-- I learned that DJ'ing is a serious hard task. That was so fun watching you and Keith get down!!
"Hurry, MOVE, we havent eaten in 90 minutes" LMAO! That joke was kind of realistic actually. Thats the sad thing. Everywhere we look was Food, food, dessert, candy, food, candy, ice cream and them more food!
I still laugh that Rach and Allen played by the rules and wasted money on the water shoes. We just acted like we were going to get in and joined right in. The dang guides didn't even have them on Ha! And lastly I really love my dad. Like with my whole heart. I can picture him weeks, months even, before the trip shopping at all kinds of store racking up little travel trinkets then he did his little display and passed it all out. My fav was the sticky notes and bungey (sp) chords to keep our doors open in the hallway so we could hear each other.
Ahhh wait how bout when that guy told me to go to the back of the ship for a surprise and I was my very own porn show! What the H??!! You pretty much get it all on a cruise don't ya!

Truly and Shane said...

Hold on! I made a typo that HAS to be corrected...

I meant I SAW my very own porn show on the back. Not was my very own.... hahahah! Had to clear that one up there!!! haha

Truly and Shane said...

you will NOT complain how much I comment. You are going to like it!!!!! Hush!

I cannot forget to say the hardest I laughed on the entire trip, and I do mean this literally (the photo shoot on the golf course was a close second) but THEE hardest laughing moment had to be when my mom was learning all the good Jamaican slang and kept walking around and casually shooting her finger at people and high-fiving and calling out what she learned!! Holy cow were we all in tears. She had no idea what it really meant for the longest time and she laughed even harder when she found out! Love my mama! Best trip of a lifetime, I really did miss Shane at times. But you made sure I was in so many pics. I felt like your other half, the better half of course

Keith and Charayye said...

Truly! I am laughing so hard right now just thinking of the Jamaican boucing me in the crotch with his knee trying to undo my stuff from the zipline as fast as he could lol!!! And I had no idea what was going on cause I was to distracted by Keith coming in fast after me on the zipline and getting plowed over by him! I was a little nervous at that moment I will be honest, and all at the same time I was getting a little ride myself hahahahaha! And your little boyfriend that asked if he could have you! That was awesome! He first asked me if you were single haha! I love all your comments! I really did love the photo shoot on the gold coarse to! That was so fun! I was really hesitant posting some of this pics, not because they're bad, but I'm really careful with what I post on here! like the ones of us wrapped around the ground hogs and the one of me sitting on the turtle, those were great I love them! But I'm just careful with what I put up and with that being said I am going private soon! Anyway, yes there were so many awesome moments! Your moms Jamaican speech was awesome! She cracks me up!!! I love the family I married into:)

Mom or Nancy Crocker said...

Wow Charayye. Nice post! Well, now it's my turn to take a trip down memory lane......First of all, Keith and Craig looked so cool and bad with their tats! It was SO out of character for Craig which made it all the better. He really did put some serious time into collecting things for our goodie bags and balcony flags. I love that about him. You left out the pic of Keith putting sunscreen on your backside in Haiti!...now that was funny! I wish you could have seen your Love and Marriage audition kiss...omg hilarious, seriously. The second pic of the whole fam geared up for the ziplime in Jamaica is too funny. You and K are the only ones making faces..LOL, hahaha! The pic of you three girls kneeling under a flowering bush in J is a fav of mine....you all look so pretty. Your caption on one of the pics at the falls where you say "Go honey, no wait that's your sister" made me laugh right out loud! Very funny Charayye. You and Keiffy had so much fun with Truey:) That was a vacation of a lifetime. Let's do it again! I'm serious. Love you. Thanks for an AWESOME POST:)

Jody and Dave Lindsay said...

Okay- talk about a trip of a lifetime! I loved every picture. Cruises are the best!