Thanksgiving and Cozumel

We were in Belize for Thanksgiving and we didn't even get off the boat.  

But we did enjoy a "lovely" Thanksgiving fruit and veggie display.  

Jason was very upset that the bodies of the turkeys are actual turkeys...look closely and you'll see. 

Our black Friday was spent in Cozumel, and best I can come up with, I've been to Cozumel between 8-10 times....and it's always good for some photo-ops. 

Bubba Gump

Trump and his wall

And Kyle on the water trampoline. 

All the Wins

Never to be outdone, we walked off our cruise ship with what felt like all the wins.

Reed came home with a complete set of medals.

He took 3rd place in a field of at least 25 competitors (including adults) in what I call "cornhole with beanbags".

Then he and Jason took 2nd place in family mini golf (which, according to them, included a field of a "bunch of cheaterpants" ).

Reed then hooked up with the semi-professional bowler in the family to win 1st place in family "cornhole".  With Granny making the winning shot.

Life Lesson: take a bowler with you to a cornhole tournament. 

I was able to win the family a set of Royal Carribean pens when I carried our entire team in Muppet Trivia.  

My team of Maw-Maw, Kyle, and Reed only knew Miss Piggy and Kermit, while I was able to smoke the competition with 15/20 Muppets.  Our closest competitors could only name 12.

Animal on the screen behind Kyle.
Easy question for me, but my sad sack team had no idea who he was. 

We also had our 3rd annual Ingersoll shuffleboard competition.

As you no doubt remember, Team Jason and Little Jason were undefeated.

But look who took home the championship this year!

And in the greatest win of all time...

Granny Sherry won bingo and brought home the real cash! 

(And Reed won a $1 in a scratch off.) 

The Injury

Obviously we couldn't have a family vacation without a trip to the clinic/nurse/first aid station, now could we?

Day 2 of the cruise I thought the world had come to an end when JR came bursting in to our room with dramatics I hadn't seen the likes of in at least, well, a week or so.

While getting ready for dinner, JR reached down and grabbed Granny Sherry's curling iron.

I know, I'm not sure how he lived through it.

The rest of the family went on to dinner as planned, but Granny was nice enough to escort JR down to the nurse. It was taking them so long to get back from the nurse that we were pretty sure JR might have been airlifted off the boat. 

Luckily they were able to save his hand, and he was even able to join us for dinner.

Like this.

He got to wear his bandages until the next day, when he got to go visit with the nurse again for a check-up...where she told him he was going to be just fine.  

Whew. 

Keeping Us Fancy

As always there were lots of activities to keep us busy.

Jason and I mainly sat by the pool, in the pool,

and on our extra large balcony.

I'm not sure what JR did since there were days we didn't see him until dinner.  

Here's a rare JR sighting we had.

Kyle and Reed kept busy doing all sorts of things like mini golf, waterslides, and ice skating.

And always one to keep us fancy, Reed went and learned to fold napkins so we can be impressive at our next dinner party.

Here's what he did in class:

And then he showed off  his new skills for us at dinner.

Better than Pigs

So the sloths were definitely the highlight of our trip to Roatan, but sloth holding wasn't on our original itinerary (but to be fair, we didn't know sloth holding was an option when we made the itinerary).  

The plan was to go "swimming with pigs", which turned out to be not swimming with pigs at all, but a "wait in line all day to have your picture made with a pig standing in water".  

In the best decision ever made, we ditched the pigs and our driver took us to what I will forever refer to as the "most wonderful petting zoo in the world". 

 So besides sloths we held:

Guinea pigs (and baby guinea pigs)

Birds

And bigger birds 

And really naughty monkeys 

Sloth!

 Look at our sloth pictures!

This is probably going to be our Christmas card.

Unless I just use the picture of myself.

As you can see, I wasn't excited to hold him at all.

 Kyle held him like a new baby!

And look at those claws!

If you look in the trees you can see the other sloth

I'm pretty sure the sloth is posing here with JR. 

And then the kids held the baby sloth that was born without an arm (he's the one in the trees in the other picture).

And what are the odds that we'd have a sloth in our room that night after dinner.  (And yes, I think it's actually a monkey, but we called it a sloth.)

We are Home

We got home yesterday from our week long cruise with the family.

I am still trying to get back in the swing of things and I feel like I am so behind!  But I will have all our stories/injuries/winnings/classes/excursions in the days to come.