Sea Trek Helmet Dive - Cozumel, Mexico

To be honest, I was totally nervous about this excursion and almost cancelled it.  I was literally shaking as we lined up.   I made sure I was at the head of the line (3rd person) so that I didn't have time to talk myself out of going.  I'm was not very comfortable in the water and I don't like things being close to my face, even motorcycle helmets give me a bit of a panic attack.

I am so glad I decided to get out of my comfort zone and do this excursion!  It ended up being amazing! They had a water bottle full of fish food to attract the fish and they would pour some around us and we'd be surrounded by fish!  I really have no words for how awesome it was to be underwater with all the fishes!  They also let me take my own underwater camera down with me and even took photos of us with it.  I highly recommend this excursion for anyone going to Cozumel!  Just don't buy anything from the store connected to the place because Josh totally got ripped off.

Cozumel, Mexico

Our second stop on our cruise was Cozumel, Mexico.   This was my first experience with a "touristy port" type of deal.  In the Bahamas, we got off the ship and there we were, we were in the city and had access to pretty much everything and it was authentic.  Here, the port was touristy and built pretty much for the tourist so there was definitely a lack of authenticity which I wasn't a fan of.  It was harder to get out of the port area and not very walkable, which made me happy that we decided to do an excursion.  We got to see more of Cozumel this way.

I will get into our awesome excursion tomorrow, which took us into downtown Cozumel.  The port, while tourist oriented was still very nice.  There were lots of shops which made buying my magnet fairly easy, and there were several restaurants which we took advantage off after our excursion.  Unfortunately, other than shop and eat there wasn't much to do in the port.  However,  between the excursion and the port we did manage to stay off the ship for most of the day.

Cozumel wasn't my favorite stop but it also wasn't bad.  Our excursion was awesome but I was pretty indifferent about the rest of Cozumel.  Cozumel is one of the stops on our cruise next year but Josh and I plan to do one of the excursions to mainland Mexico.  Either the Mayan ruins of Coba or Tulum, we haven't decided yet (any suggestions/opinions would be awesome!).   So, I am excited to go back to Mexico and see what else it has to offer.

I don't know what's going on with Josh's face in these next two pics and he would kill me if he knew I posted these, but they're good ones of me :-P