On Thursday mid-morning of our cruise we docked in Cozumel and stayed until the evening. We didn't participate in any of the ship's excursions, we just got a taxi and asked him to take us to the best beach. We ended up at Playa Mia, where everyone else was going! The weather wasn't predictable, but here's a recap of the fun things we did on the beach that day.

We participated in a football throwing contest.

I won! But did you see that they let me throw from a closer line because I'm a woman? I hoped no one was mad...

This was taken at the end of the afternoon...everyone else had already gone back to the ship, but since we had gone on our own, we could stay later. It was nice to have it to ourselves for a little while. Before this, almost all of these beach chairs were occupied.

The water was pretty! There were some serious rain clouds, but during the 30 minutes that it rained, we both got a massage right there on the beach under a tent. Ahhh...perfect.

There were lots of activities going on. We played volleyball with a newlywed couple from Atlanta. We also just sat and watched people and read a book.

The area right around the ships was extremely touristy....lots of shops, people calling at you to come into their store, souvenirs everywhere, and of course, a mariachi band.

We thought our ship was huge until we parked right beside this Royal Caribbean ship in Cozumel! Ours is the smaller one...Celebrity Millennium. I think there were a little over 2,000 guests on board, as well as about 1,000 crew members. The Oasis of the Seas beside us had about 7,000 people total and is considered to be the largest cruise ship in the world. !!