HUGHES: Spring Break... The best family reunion EVER!

For spring break we were lucky enough to be able to go on another cruise! My amazing grandparents have always made family the number one focus and love to do things that keep us together! I have such an awesome family too. My cousins have always been some of my best friends, and We owe it all to our grandparents for always doing things for us and with us to keep us close. This year Grandpa decided we'd have our family reunion on the seas of the caribbean, we had a group of about 50! It was a great vacation and get away for Jon and I. We had a blast together, we missed the girls but it was much needed 'us' time after a long few weeks of not seeing him much because of school.It was also so great to be with family and spend some time with my sisters, brother and brother-in-laws and cousins we don't get to see as much as we'd like. Here are a TON of pictures from this fantastic trip! Sorry there really are a TON of pictures so bear with me.

At the hotel getting ready, and so excited to head to the ship!

Our crew, loading the bus that would take us to the ship

Jessica, our youngest cousin getting geared up to load the bus

my family on the bus

Inside the ship!

getting some lunch!

Juju and Heather lounging on my parents balcony getting ready to depart from Ft. Lauderdale.

All of us on the balcony of parents room

Goodbye Ft. Lauderdale

There were some amazing homes along the coastline

Kassie and Kyle

Ping Pong Tournament at sea! Ben and Jon were too good!

RootBerry was our favorite show. They were a juggling/comedy show and they were so funny and really amazing

Magic show! It was so packed we had to stand in the back which ended up providing us with more entertainment than the actual show. There was a guy with his wife who was in a battery op wheelchair. Her battery was sticking out into the walkway and people were tripping over it left and right. It was funny because one of the cruise workers tried to move it and the man yelled at her and told her that if people would just watch where they were walking they wouldn't trip over it. It's probably one of those stories where you had to be there for it to be as funny as it was! :)

my awesome parents dancing before the karaoke began!

Sarah singing!

Kate winning over the crowd with her amazing singing and dancing! she was awesome and totally should have won in the finals!

Our crowd enjoying the show!

The karaoke stars! Kate, Sarah, Ernie, and Me!

Love these girls!

In some of my other family members pictures that creepy old guy is in the back of their pics too! Weird!

Captains dinner!

I am so grateful for the wonderful Grandparents that I have! They do so much for our family and are the reason that we are so close and have such great relationships! They are a wonderful example of love to us too! Love them so much!

Sarah and Scott

Sisters... minus Pook... she was having too much fun with her cousins, we didn't see her much!

We played games almost every night at the back of the boat. Our big group took up like 6 or seven tables playing games! I love our family!

Tara and Ben excited for the butterfly farm!!!

Cool church in St.Maarten that we saw on our tour on the way to the butterfly farm.

Tara really wanted a butterfly to land on her, 24 hours of good luck if they do!

Nate trying to get some good luck too!

Woot! Jon got one to land on him!

The family minus dad who had to take the picture since the lady we asked to take it couldn't figure out my camera... um... just look thru the hole and push the button!

In Grand Turk we got to do the Flowrider! It was so much fun! Me, Jon, Travis, Nate, Scotty, Kassie, Juju, and Pookie all did it.

Nate

Jon

Jon getting up on his knees!

Breanne

Travis

Scotty

Jon

Pookie

Nate and Kassie

Scotty and Ju

Me doing a roll

Jon and Ju

Pookie, Kassie and Juju

Pookie

We all were doing good near the end and then Scotty had to go and do this and show us all up! YEAH SCOTTY!

Kyle did the 'advanced' flowrider and got to stand up he did awesome!

Here is some of the group chillin in the pool watching Kyle and the other advanced riders and just relaxing!

My 3 beautiful little sisters!

The last night after dinner we all gathered in the back of the ship for one last photo shoot!

Me and the beautiful Heather Bear!

Kassie, Kyle and Travis

Our cousin group (minus Dan who couldn't come on the Cruise) We were all best friends from when we were babies thru high school till now! I love these people so much!