A few photos to share

Time is short as we're only home for a couple days before heading out for some more vacationing. We're going to the Midwest to visit family~~fun in its own right, but it certainly doesn't compare to the Caribbean!!!

Anyway, here are just a few photos from our trip. More will be coming later.

Beginning our trip in Tampa, where we went to Busch Gardens. Hooray for the Hero Salute promotion that let's us into the park for free! Love that! Let's hope the Dutch don't buy out Anheiser-Busch because I doubt the Dutch would continue supporting our troops with free theme park tickets if they acquired all the parks that A/B owns.


Our family in Trunk Bay on St. John Island in the US Virgin Islands. This is by far the most beautiful place we've ever seen. The island is a US National Park which has kept it very well cared for and extremely pristine. We could definitely see ourselves returning here for a future visit. It was gorgeous. Sure didn't hurt that this day was our anniversary. What better way to celebrate 14 years together than on a gorgeous beach like this?!


Here is me, doing exactly what I'd said I'd be doing, soaking up some sun!


After leaving St. John via ferry to head back to our port island, St Thomas, we stopped to take this picture with our ship in the background. We were on the Carnival Valor.


Back on the ship, we relaxed and savored the view of St. Thomas in the background. This turned out to be my favorite night of the cruise. Every other night we spent time getting ready for a formal dinner, two hours or more eating the dinner, and missed every sunset. This particular night, our anniversary, we decided to forego the fancy-schmancy dining room and just eat casually from the buffet, me still in my swim attire! As we ate we watched the sun disappear behind the mountains of the island, and then were in awe of all the twinkling lights of the city. It was breath-taking and the most perfect way to toast 14 years together.