Our Bahamas day and ringing in the new year!

 Our last day was full of living the Bahamas life!

We got up and off the ship early to head to snorkel! OH the girls loved this! Me...well...I am not a fan of going under water....all that stuff...but it was a memory worth doing!

We had to take the polar plunge at first....but as soon as we were in the water, we got acclimated quickly and the water was bearable. Tyler, Lily and Lex enjoyed going under and seeing all the fish. I enjoyed hanging on to Lily and watching their excitement! :)

We were all excited to be on this 'private' boat to make our way out to snorkel! 

Our view as we passed our ship!

So pretty!

 Loved my view as we made our way out! Looking at all the beautiful homes...huge yachts....the Atlantis hotel....all of it was so beautiful from the water!

Lily was READY!

And so was Daddy! Alexis wouldnt let me take a picture of her. :)

So beautiful! Crystal clear!

These two stayed out until the end and loved going as deep as they could!

The 'coconut' man came up {not sure how his wooden...old...yuck...boat made it out to where we were} and was selling coconuts. He cracked them open and the girls begged for one! This was their look when I knew they wouldnt like it very much but they both drank the coconut water anyways! ha!

After we snorkeled, we hit the town and shopped!

Both girls thought they were fancy! We stayed in a perfume shop for what seemed like forever, around 30 minutes, just because both of them thought they were fancy and they both smelled pretty much every scent in the store! The ladies in there were ready for us to leave! :)

Talk about THRILLED to drink a Starbucks drink in the Bahamas. Both girls said their drinks tasted better........because it was from the Bahamas.... {yeah....okay!} :)

We got back on the ship and had a snack. I would say Lily enjoyed her chocolate fountain donuts and brownies!

Time to get fancy again and enjoy our last dinner! We had a great show before heading to bed and then the next day we set off for home!

Thankfully we had a great drive home. Got home around 3:30 which was SO nice! {for the record keeping purposes, it takes 95 songs EXACTLY....to make if from Port Canaveral parking deck to our driveway! YEP, that is with 2 gas station stops, an hourish at Cracker Barrel for lunch....and pretty clear traffic!} :) {Also...do you ask what was the number 1 song?!?! Well...I shall tell you! :) The top 100 Rock song of all time, according to the countdown, was Pour Some Sugar by Def Leopard! One of my favorites too!} We unloaded and spent the rest of the day unpacking and then watching Dick Clark's New Years Eve party in NYC! We didnt make it to the ball drop but we recorded it and watched it the next day! ha!

Soccer was so excited we were back home! Lily and I couldnt get him off of us the whole night! :)

New Years day was full of taking down Christmas...unloading....you know....back to the real world things...and THIS! We got our greens and peas on for the new year! OH yum!

This was Lily on New Years day .......doing her experiments from one of her Christmas gifts from us while Tyler and I did all the things like....taking down the trees! :)

We had such a wonderful Christmas break and now....we are all ready to tackle and see what 2022 has for us! Good or bad, we know God's got us and we can make it through with Him!