Honeymoon: Cozumel

Yes, that is a picture of what you think it is. Alicia is not only in a bathing suit (her first since 7th grade forced swimming in gym class) but she is also in the Caribbean. She also has a necessary drink. I have had a fear of water for as long as I can remember. However, at Brian's request, being our honeymoon, I faced my fear and got in the water.

It was awesome. I get it now. Swimming is fun. I was wrong. I did, of course, accuse Brian of trying to kill me twice while in the ocean (he picked me up and accidentally dunked me). However, this is still progress!

These pictures were taken at a beach club in Cozumel, Mexico. It was the second port of call on our cruise.

Here I am on a beach chair enjoying a pina colada (it was an open bar):

Here is Brian on the beach posing like a Sports Illustrated model for me:

Finally, I had to include this shot of one of the beach club employees carrying around some parrots:

We had a blast and the resulting sunburn was totally worth it!

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