2004 July 7 nt. Graduation Cruise to the Western Caribbean with Angie on Carnival Elation: Progresso; Belize; Cozumel

2004 July 7 nt. Graduation Cruise to the Western Caribbean with Angie on Carnival Elation: Progresso; Belize; Cozumel

July 4, 2004:

This was another mother/daughter trip. The excuse for this trip was celebration of her graduation from K-state the month before.
We got an early start to the day. Our flight to Houston left at 6:30 am, so we were at the airport about 5:45. We arrived in Houston about 8:30 where we retrieved our luggage, then waited until 10:45 for our shuttle to Port Galveston to catch our cruise ship, Carnival's Elation.  One thing we discovered from this cruise---when you cruise out of Texas, 90%+ of the passengers are down home Texans!  Lots of ye-haws and cowboy hats!  Nothing wrong with that, just found it interesting and amusing.
I picked this particular cruise for a couple of reasons. I always heard about the great barrier reef by Belize and wanted to snorkel there. The other reason was because I found a travel agent selling that cruise on Ebay for $450@ + $150 onboard credit.

7-4-04 embarkation day---

 

7-5-04 sea day---

 

7-6-04 Chichen Itza

7-7-04 Cozumel---

 

7-8-04 Belize!

 

 7-9&10-2004 sea days---

 

And that's it for another great mother/daughter trip.

7-8-04 Belize!

 This was my much anticipated stop in Belize.

 It looked like we might be totally washed out, but we did manage to tender off onto our snorkel excursion to Goff Island.

 

 Goff Island is a tiny island off of Belize. 

 We had a ball snorkeling there.

 The snorkeling off this little island was really good.

 The water was crystal clear and there were lots of fish and coral.

 We even wandered around the little island a bit. Then the rain moved in and we had to board our tender and head back to the ship.

On the tender heading back to the ship

 The rains did find us, but at least the day wasn't a total wash out!

Back on board the ship, it was time to rest up and enjoy the warm breezes.
 Then on to dinner. We had a great time with our dinner mates----at least these 2 ladies. The other 4 single ladies at our table were rather strange as was the one single guy (who was also there as a graduation trip with his parents). The parents were pretty neat, though.