time heals all wounds

You know that old saying, "time heals all wounds," I have always found that to be so true.  This extra week off of chemo was the perfect time to go on vacation.  Most of my side effects had subsided and it made it so much more enjoyable and that much easier to forget what I'm going through and be able to just live in the caribbean for a week and enjoy myself, ourselves.

Every day was better than the last, it was an amazing trip.  It was like a second honeymoon and we did miss the kids because the ship was so kid friendly, and there were a few families with little ones.  They say you either really like cruising or you don't, and we really do and want to go again WITH the kids!

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the fundraiser because we definitely were able to do more knowing we had those funds to use to help pay for medical bills.  We did a few fun excursions, kayaking and an animal park.  I am going to post a few pics.  Unfortunately my camera stopped working after day 2 so we didn't get as many photos as I would have liked.  We went to one park where they have monkeys that come sit on your heads and birds that sit on your shoulders, I was glad the camera was working for that.  The water was 80 degrees and so was the air, it was beautiful each day and we were so fortunate to have such good weather, no rain and it was so much fun.

We met a few people, no one that we really connected with.  I find it so hard to meet new people, when they ask if I work, I usually just tell them about the job I had and act as if I'm still doing it.  I never feel comfortable dropping the Cancer bomb on them when they're simply just asking what I do for work.  People never know what to say and then it just makes it awkward, so it's easier just to talk about the job I had, which I loved. 

Anyway, it was nice to just pretend for a while that everything is ok and enjoy ourselves.  Thanks to my mom for watching the kids!  and our friends that helped out, we really appreciate it!

 Beach in Costa Maya.  we did some snorkeling there, my favorite picture!

 sunsets from our window on cruise ship

fun rope bridge we had to cross

 orange iguana, they were huge!

 Monkeys!  They warned us to take off our hats, sunglasses and not have big bags or water bottles because the monkeys would just come up and take them from you!  and someone did bring a gatorade bottle and the monkey did steal it, figured out how to open it and chugged it!

When we docked in Tampa we had like 12 hours to kill before our flight.  I have a cousin who I haven't seen in like 9 years that lives in Tampa and he was nice enough to spend the day with us and show us around.  He lives on a lake and I got to go kayaking again!  Thanks Bill for making the end of our vacation awesome!