Bermuda Cruise {Part 3}

After getting back on the ship from Horsehoe Bay, we got ready for dinner.

Here's another story from our week... Our waitstaff were young- we had a young guy named "Chin" (I would butcher the correct spelling if I tried hah) and a young girl named Rahab. Rahab was wonderful, she was very kind and we loved chatting with her. "Chin" was very nice as well, but he did seem to struggle a little bit with time management and catering to all of his tables. On our third night, while we were in Bermuda, they changed things up since so many people eat off of the ship. We had Rahab with an older woman who was game-on! It seemed that Rahab usually had to pick up the slack for our assigned waiter. So... when it was dessert time, this older woman brought out our cheesecake and then Rahab brought some out too (thinking we hadn't gotten any yet) Hahaha 

We did NOT eat all of that cheesecake but it was funny and we had to document it ;-) 

This is the first time we've ever stayed at an island over night. We were super excited to get back off the ship after dinner! 

We came up on this Pirate Ship bar and we had to snap some pictures to send my Dad :-) 

We decided to walk over and check out the Snorkel Park beach since that's where we were going the next day.

 

It was really neat! They had bonfires set up, music playing, and free wifi ha! We got to message our sweet boarder and check on Luci :-) It sprinkled a little bit while we were out, but not enough to damper our night.

We ended our night by kissing under the Moon Gate. Local legend says that if you kiss under it you will have a long and happy life together ;-) 

The next morning we woke up early to explore the island some more before it was time to leave. Kings Wharf, Bermuda is definitely one of our favorite islands now! It was SO beautiful and clean to walk around and explore. There was also a lot of history within the old Royal Navy Dockyards.

We spent a little more time on the beach and in the water at Snorkel Park. 

This beach is man-made and was not nearly as pretty as Horseshoe Bay, but it was still nice and you can't beat being able to walk there from the ship!

After a little beach time, we set off to explore and do some souvenir shopping.

See what I mean!? Gorgeous streets! 

I bought some beautiful earrings from this glass blowing shop. It was fun to watch them work.

Some more views from walking around the island. We didn't want to leave! 

Here are some pictures I took as we sailed away:

We left around 2:00pm so we still had plenty of pool deck time before dinner. We set up camp here and rotated from reading, to swimming, to napping. What a life, right? :-) 

We ate another delicious dinner and then went to Quest!

I had to take a picture because Andy got to participate in this round. They were looking for the shortest and tallest man on your team. Andy represented our team well :-P 

& then our fourth day ended with a monkey hanging from our ceiling :-) 

Bermuda Cruise Part 1

Bermuda Cruise Part 2

Bermuda Cruise Part 4

Bermuda Cruise {Part 2}

On day 3 we woke up to a beautiful view out our port hole! The sun was shining and we were ready for Bermuda.

We actually didn't arrive until about 1:30, so after a late breakfast/brunch, Andy and I stood on one of the top decks and watched as we pulled into port. It was neat to see the patches of "light" ocean versus "dark" ocean. You could tell where there were patches of coral :-)

Once we arrived, we got off the ship quickly to catch a shuttle to Horseshoe Bay. It has been voted one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. We were excited to check it out!
The drive there was so pretty. There is a lot of stone work surrounding the streets of Bermuda.

After our first few glances of Horseshoe Bay, we agreed that it IS one of the most beautiful beaches!

The sand really was pink!!

We set up camp near the water with our two lounge chairs. It was pretty close to perfect ;-)

Funny story about this rock... About halfway through our time on the beach, this man, who may have been a local, swam out to it, climbed it, and stood on the top for awhile. It attracted everyone's attention and after about 5 minutes, he finally dove in to the water. Everyone cheered and then SO many young people swam out and jumped. It was funny to see so many people flock to it after that one man jumped off.

Also, remember how I cliff jumped in Hawaii? Well there were a lot of people climbing the cliff on this beach, so I was curious to see it for myself. It was way too high to jump off of, but I still wanted to check it out. Well, I got about 10 ft into the climb and the rocks were SO narrow, I couldn't even fit  my two legs through the passageway without getting scraped up. The picture below is how far I climbed Ha ha

The last thing we did on the beach was venture over to this rocky, cove area where people were snorkeling. The water was pretty cloudy so we didn't see much but it was still a beautiful swim.

We were sad when it was time to leave Horseshoe Bay, but it had been a "Bermudaful" day! :-)

We drove over the world's smallest drawbridge on the way back to the ship. See that tiny little slip? It's just barely wide enough when it opens for a sail on a sailboat to pass through.

I think this post is already chock-full of pictures, so I will recap our night in Bermuda in my next post :-)

Bermuda Cruise Part 1
Bermuda Cruise Part 3
Bermuda Cruise Part 4