Mexico - Costa Maya and Cozumel

Drinks, beach, fun in the sun, and my best girlfriends... Life could not get much better! Last July, almost a year ago to the date, I set sail with Ginger, Sara, Tracy, Amy Claire, and Morgan. We boarded one of Carnival Cruise Line's "Fun Ships" for five full days of FUN, and we were no rookies on the cruise ship! Just a year before, a few weeks after college graduation, we took a similar cruise ship trip to Mexico and told ourselves we would try to take a "girls" trip every year. As of today, we have successfully went through with two years of ladies vacations, and I am hoping there is another trip well on it's way.

On the Fun Ship!
While on the ship, we caught some much needed rays - some of us caught a little too many (Amy Claire... haha), ate as much as we could fit in our newly-worked out little bodies (we made sure to pull it together for this trip since on the last trip, we seemed to fit right in with the whales that were swimming beneath us), and we drank lots of yummy, beachy alcoholic beverages (like the sun, also much-needed). It was the life... and when we stopped off at Costa Maya, then Cozumel for our beach and party boat excursions, it got even better!

"Carlos and Charlies", anyone?! It's our Favorite!
The catch? A year out of college and living booze-free lives seemed to catch up with us quickly. After a wild day in Costa Maya, it was a chore to get started on the Party Boat in Cozumel the next day, and although we felt "too old" for the over-the-top alcoholic intake and untamed partying, we were introduced to people double our age who seemed to be taking it all in so easily. After seeing them do more than we ever wanted to on the Party Boat (a grown man in thongs and a father in a shirt labeled "My Dick is Bigger Than Yours" is never good), we hesitated but joined in on the fun. Tequila shots, margaritas, and the will to dance soon entered all of our systems, and WE WERE BACK! College days... eat your heart out! All-in-all, I could not have asked for a better trip with my favorite girls, or of course finding out that the tail of a ship REALLY IS as big as a REAL whale's tail! HAHA!

There it is! What a beauty! It's great to be so smart!

I hope we all do it again soon... maybe this time it will be for Ginger's wedding! Bahamas, Jamaica, Cabo... do I hear one of you calling our names? I sure hope so!

Our Signature Pose... there's plenty more where that came from!