Scuba Diving

Here are some pictures of us scuba diving underwater. Our friends, Micah and Stephanie, have an underwater camera so we were able to get pics for ourselves.

This is me, yes, doing a toe touch. I couldn't resist. I also did multiple front and back flips. It was too easy and made the dive fun when we weren't seeing much marine life. Also, Brooks was diving underneath me at the time, which those are his bubbles coming up.

One of our favorite dives was where we got to swim with sharks. Don't worry, they weren't dangerous sharks. They just wanted to eat! Our dive masters brought chum in that plastic container and hung it from a rope while we all swam around them and watched. Eventually, our dive masters started catching some of the sharks and we got to hold and pet them. Their skin is really rough (almost like sand paper). It was so neat to feel them swim by us, lurking back and forth.

Brooks at the bottom of the Ocean, in between the coral. It was very important that we not touch the coral so we wouldn't risk killing it. I'm thinking Brooks was concentrating, making sure he didn't accidentally hit any of it.

This is Brooks and I at The Blue Hole. We dove 130ft down, the farthest depth we're certified to go to. It was VERY, VERY dark down there and not a lot to see except the walls of the cave that use to be there. This was Brooks' FAVORITE dive of all, and it was my scariest dive. I was glad we were only down there for 8 minutes. On our way up, we saw several bull sharks and one other kind of BIG shark. They were swimming over us, which was really neat, but also, made me feel like we were in a Jaws movie. We're so glad we did this dive to say that we've dived at The Blue Hole.
The four of us posing for a picture underwater. It only took 3 tries to get a shot without any of us breathing and having our bubbles coming out.

We had an AWESOME time scuba diving and loved it! We can't wait to go again. It was by far one of the neatest experience ever.

UnBelizable

Here are some pictures from our trip to Belize. I'll put another post with underwater pics of us scuba diving. We had a blast in Belize and enjoyed the vacation. We went with our really good friends, The Sperling's.
This is Brooks and I at one of our favorite restaurants, The Lazy Croc. It was a neat, outdoors restaurant, that looked like something from the movie Water Boy. The owners were from Florida and since we were the only people there that night (everyone else knew a massive storm was coming, which we got caught in and had to run 3-4 miles to the nearest hut (on the water by the way)). It made for a VERY memorable night.

This was right before our last dive on day 4. Yes, Steph and I wore matching tops. We saw sting rays and sea turtles on this dive. They were amazing.

This is the golf cart we rented to tour the island.

Brooks and I on a speed bump in the road. It was a giant rope.