Tidy Teddy and I set sail on the Nieuw Statendam, a Holland America Cruise Line ship.  This ship is 975 feet long and 114 feet wide.  We set sail from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, for a 7-day adventure. 

The next day (New Year’s Eve), we arrived at our first stop – Half Moon Cay, Bahamas.  The Bahamas are a group of 700 islands, but people only live on 30 of them.  At Half Moon Cay, we rode horses on the beach (and in the water!) and relaxed on the beach.

After a day at sea, we arrived in Ocho Rios, Jamaica.  Jamaica is an island in the Caribbean Sea.  We climbed the famous Dunn River Falls, a 140-foot-high and 600-foot-long waterfall located near Ocho Rios.  The waterfall flows right into the Caribbean Sea.

Our next stop was in Georgetown, Grand Cayman Island.  The Cayman Islands are famous for beautiful beaches and great shopping.  We spent the day snorkeling and meeting stingrays up close. 

The last stop on our trip was Cozumel, Mexico.  Mexico is a country south of the United States in Central America.  In Cozumel, we took a ferry to the mainland and explored the ancient Mayan Ruins at Tulum.  The Mayan people were a group of people who date back to 1800 B.C.!  There are many ancient Mayan sites in Central America, but Tulum is the only one built on the coast near the sea.

When we weren’t visiting a new country, we were doing lots of fun things on the ship.  One day, we got to meet the captain of the ship.  He told us about how big our ship was and how it stays afloat in the water. 

We had a lot of fun on this 7-day adventure.  We traveled 1,917 miles in 7 days!  We were in 5 different countries.  It was a fun way to travel!