Carnival Cruise Lines: The Holiday

Holiday Ship Layout

The tower that spewed black soot

Suzy & Elaine

Chankanaab Park, Cozumel Island, Mexico

The snorkeling was great!

Shopping in Cozumel (Russ and Elaine)

The Cozumel strip

Swimming with stingrays in Grand Caymen
(that's Elaine dodging a female stingray)

The crew returning from Stingray City
(Alice did not go as she was feeling ill)

The shops of Grand Caymen

Leaving Grand Caymen

The gang, climbing Dunn River Falls, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
(Rick & Alice, Steve & Elaine, Russ & Suzy)

We were referred to as "The Big Six"
(Our eating habits must have been showing)

Our cruise of the Western Carribean was probably the best trip to-date.  Everything went smoothly, and the accommodations on the ship were wonderful. Cozumel's Chankanaab Park was great for snorkeling; Grand Caymen and the stingrays are something I will never forget (including our guide, Fred Sanford, who told me that if I'd spread squid all over my body, I'd have the biggest hickey I'd every had in my life! the stingrays suck their food in like a giant vacuum cleaner); and climbing Dunn River Falls, even with a twisted ankle, was fun like I've never experienced.

Memorable Moments: The boys, disappointed in the dinner proportions the first night, ordered 2 entrees the second night ... and the proportions that night were huge! Being hounded to death on deck, while sunbathing, by waiters pushing Carnival drinks. Alice being hounded by the Jamaicans who wanted to braid her long hair.   Russ being hounded on the Jamaican beach by a guy who wanted to take us for a ride on his boat (of all people to hound!). Me worrying about my Nikon camera in the hands of our guide going up Dunn River Falls (don't know how he didn't get it wet). Steve trying to outrun a gar fish.

Would we do it again ... definitely!