After our crazy day yesterday we had a much needed relaxing day. We slept right on through breakfast, got up for lunch, went shopping in town, and then more hanging out by the pool. I had just enough time to stop by the salon after our Dolphin excursion yesterday and get some sweet cornrows put in my hair. I had fun showing those off. Plus it was nice to not have to style my hair for the rest of the trip. The people at the market in town were definitely pushy, b...

So, for a vacation that was supposed to be comprised of doing a whole lot of nothing, we actually did quite a lot! Our second full day in Jamaica, we did two excursions. Our first excursion was to Dunn's River Falls: It's about 180 feet (55 m) high and 600 feet (180 m) long. We hiked up the whole thing, and did it safely, Jaime slipped and got quite a lovely scrape as a souvenir. He was alright though. The falls were rough, and parts were slippery, but we had a ...

We could not have asked for a better way to spend Christmas. Although Christmas in California is sunny and beach-y, this was a whole new level and was just amazing. Jamaica is just as beautiful and relaxing as it looks. We spent the bulk of Christmas day relaxing at the pools at our resort. We went kayaking, went on the water slide a few times, hung out on the beach, and took advantage of the all-inclusiveness by drinking at the swim-up bar, and eating at the b...

Well, anybody who has seen the Grand Canyon knows it cannot fit in a nutshell, but I will try and describe our vacation in one. It was a short vacation, so I will keep this short and sweet. We stayed in a little town called Williams - about 50 miles outside of the National Park. Talk about Smalltown USA, this was it. It had one street, and it was pretty much all hotels. It was quaint to say the least, but very reasonably priced, and a fun little town to stay in...

After quite the night of partying last evening, it was not too easy to get up early this morning for our ziplining adventure, but it was SO worth it!! We got picked up at about 9 am this morning and headed off to our rainforest adventure! It was a lot of hiking and driving atop very steep hills to get to our adventure, and the first zipline was very scary. You really wouldn't think one of those little lines could handle so much weight and wear and tear. But we...