babymoon

April 24-29

Colby and I wanted to take one last big vacation as a couple before our little boy arrives, so we decided to go to Negril, Jamaica.

Riu Palace at night.

They had really neat palm trees in the shape of fans.

The view from the balcony of our room. We woke up every morning to the sound of the ocean.

We spent most of our time at the beach or the pool and even pampered ourselves with a couples massage. We had the most relaxing and amazing time!! On our last day at the beach we saw starfish while we were swimming in the ocean and I saw a stingray while we were walking along the shore.

The water was perfectly clear and the sand was really white. I really wanted to get a tan before my maternity pictures and thought I would get a little sun on my belly. Apparently, your skin is really sensitive when you are pregnant and I ended up burning my belly pretty badly!

The only time we left the resort was to go on a catamaran tour of Negril. It was beautiful! We saw the 7 mile beach, downtown Negril, and some resorts along the rocky part of the coast with gorgeous cliffs. We went to the largest reef off the coast of Jamaica for some snorkeling and were able to see amazing fish in bright shades of orange, yellow, and blue. Colby even got to hold a sea urchin. We also saw a cannon from an old ship.

In our snorkel gear :)

We swam inside this cave! It was so pretty. You can really see how clear the water was in this picture.

Our last stop was a place called Rick's cafe. It is a restaurant and bar located on Negril's cliffs that is most well known for cliff diving. There were Jamaican "professional" cliff divers who would do flips and dives off the cliffs as well as drunk vacationers who would jump off the cliffs.


Some of the "professional" cliff divers.

At the resort, there are four restaurants-Italian, Japanese, fusion, and steak. You can choose to eat at the buffet or you can make a reservations at one of the restaurants. We were in Jamaica for 5 nights, so we thought we would try each of the restaurants. Our favorite was the Japanese restaurant. They had amazing sushi! Here are some pictures of us before dinner each night. Of course, we had to take some belly pics!