Crafting Up the Coast

This is another double page from our Disney Cruise.  The pic on the left is me climbing down the ladder on our Trek Dive.  We were about 30 feet under and it was so awesome.  The pic on the right was taken with an underwater camera and I am hoping to get better pictures of what we did on board from my daughter Amy.

The last time I came in contact with one of these, it was in Hawaai about 40 years ago.  We were on an outrigger off shore and we all had to go over the side so they could bail out the water from the boat (some people were not holding up their end of rowing). LOL
I thought I felt ground and that we were possibly on a sand bar, so I put my foot down and stepped on one.  We were actually over a coral reef.  The pain was incredible and I ended up in the emergency room.  Another guy in our group also ended up in there with me because he cut his foot on coral & bleeding (fortunately no sharks were near by), he was on the other side of the boat.
Needless to say, I was very careful handling this beautiful creature.  Unlike the black/blueish one I stepped on, this was almost all white and beige.

Here I am with my daughter Mo and her husband Chris right after our Snuba Drive in Cozumel.  It was so much fun.
I love the way this book is set up with beautiful pages that you don’t even need background papers.  I was able to get the Disney paper on-line and filled the entire book with stuff from Disney along with my photos.   Of course, you must have noticed that a lot of the embellishments are from page 19 of the Occasions catalog, Retro Fresh Stickers and tags.  Everything goes so well together.
I just know that Coastal Cabana color must have come from the Water in Western Carribbean.  LOL

This is Mo and she really got the hang of this quickly.  It took me a while but I finally caught on.  Here she is giving the “I’m okay” signal.  Naturally we all had to communicate with hand signals.  We were given the various signals before we did the dive.