Day 4 - Cococay Island

Wow, this is taking forever to get all of this posted. I tried posting a little bit more to Day 3 but the program screwed up and I lost all I had written. Ugh, that killed the motivation for a while. Oh well, on to day 4.

Day 4 started with a nice breakfast again, but instead of reading for an hour and then eating lunch, we hopped on a little boat (called a tender) for a quick trip to Cococay Island. Cococay is Royal Caribbean’s private island somewhere in the Bahamas. It's quite small but it's really nice. I would say this was our favorite day.

The first thing we did when we got on the island was to go parasailing. That's where they strap the two of you into a parachute, tie the parachute to the back of a speedboat, and then release you so that the boat drags you around through the air. It was awesome!

We’ve got some great pictures that I’ll have to post as soon as I get all of my computer stuff righted around (I’m in the middle of a big computer project). There we six couples on the boat, so we just passed the cameras around so that everybody had pictures of themselves. Everyone was really friendly.

The boat driver took us up in the air pretty high right away. We could see the entire island, as well as a few nearby islands. The water was crystal clear and we could see right down to the ocean floor. The driver then let us drop to within a few feet of the water before he took us back up again. We were hoping he would dip our feet into the water, but he only did that for the last couple that went. It surprised the heck out of them! Anyway, it was absolutely gorgeous up there and I would highly recommend parasailing if you ever get the chance.

When we got back to the island we did a little swimming in the cove and a little sunning on the beach. I was pretty paranoid about sun block for the entire vacation. You see, when we went to New York I got burned so bad on my forehead that I blistered. And that wasn’t nearly as close to the equator as this was. So I lathered on the sun block and really didn’t get much of a tan. Better white than red, right?!

After swimming, sunning, and eating lunch on the island Jen and I found a great hammock in the shade of a tree. We laid down and took what I would consider the best nap I’ve ever had. We had to peel ourselves out of the hammock to go back to the boat. It was so nice and relaxing.

Like I said, Cococay was our favorite day on the cruise. It was fun and relaxing all at the same time. We had another nice dinner and went to another show to cap things off. All in all it was a great way to end the cruise.