Our Cruise /Day 1

We're back! We just spent 7 nights on this ship

sailing to

We had SO much fun! It was the same cruise we went on for our honeymoon! Our anniversary was earlier this month, so we thought it would be a good excuse to go again! It brought back so many memories from our honeymoon and made us feel like newlyweds again!

Jen and Jeff came with us and between all of us, we took over 1500 pictures!!! Okay, so some of them were from us playing with the setting on our cameras or a zillion pictures of the dolphins or whales, to get just the right shot, but we took a ton of pictures! I am going to upload them to my picasa album, like I do with all of my other pictures. I'm still unpacking, so give me a few days and they will be up. Just click on the link that says Rickards Family Photo Album on the top right. I know it says through Dec. 2008. I'll get to that sometime too. :-)

Hmmm... Where to start and what to leave out? We did so much and had so much fun!

I'll start in Maui, although our first night, goofing off on the ship, might be blog worthy! It was so windy on the top deck!

Maui

Tara and Jason Rickards
Jen was playing with the settings on her camera and got these fun shots of us!

Our first day in Maui was totally layed back- after we got our rental car all figured out. Last time, we called the night before and never had a problem getting a car and never spent more than $60 for a cute car. This time was nuts! They were always sold out, but somehow we would managed to get one last minute. We were so happy to get a car that the outrageous price didn't dampen our mood.

Jeff & Jason celebrating our $200 rental car! A minivan! Haha!

We spent the day in Ka'anapali, shopping around and laying on the beach!

We had dinner that night on the beach at the Hula Grill. It was so relaxing to sit with our feet in the sand and watch the waves hit the shore while we ate.

When we got back to the ship, we headed up to one of the hot tubs on the back deck. We had a beautiful view of the lights of Maui!
It was the perfect beginning to a fantastic trip!