Ship - Day 2

After a short day of sailing, we docked at Nassau, Bahamas.We walked across the street to find some post cards.
This is our little ship.


There were some other ships parked next to us.


Leaving Nassau.


Lighthouse.


That evening, another part of our "Classic Romantic Package" was before-dinner canapés. (Thank you, girls!)


And the next part was bedtime treats.


Journal. (Basically, it says: "Eat. Sleep. Repeat.")


Our cabin attendant, Savitra, made up a clever towel sculpture to hold our Day 3 “Compass” activity guide. More on this later.

Ship - Day 1

We arrived at the terminal, on time and in budget.


A lot of other passengers were checking in, too.


We finally boarded the ship on a fancy gangplank.


When we reached our cabin, the first order of business was unpacking the technology.


Next was enjoying the lovely surprise cupcakes and champaigne (non-alcolholic) that was awaiting our arrival.
 

After we settled in, we toured some of the on-board facilities. Food was first.
The Windjammer Café greeted us with some unique watermelon sculptures.
 


We thought the grandkids would enjoy this pool - 1.5 inches deep and lots of splashy stuff.

Trip - Day 0

We flew to Fort Lauderdale.We should have taken more luggage.

After grabbing a breakfast pizza at Love Field.

And after waiting for our airplane for 3 hours.

When we got there, we started the chillin' process.

Can you tell this is a composite photo? No one was around to take a picture for us, so we took turns.

Trip to Clemson

We had a wonderful time with the Penna's......they were  busy as always and we got to go along for the journey for a few days:

school - work -  gymnastics - play rehearsals -  karate class and spontaneous practices - parks and ice cream - outdoor play with Tony and Pa - sleep over at a hotel with Mimi and Pa - movie nights - swimming in hotel pool.....

Happy Birthday, Mimi!

This was actually the day before, but it was so exciting to harvest fresh onions from the overripe ones we planted last fall that we counted it as part of birthday.

Beautiful flowers.

Treasure hunt.

Cards and drawings and planter decoration.

Backpack and chocolate meringue pie.

Beautiful flowers and photo collage.

Christmas Time Hornucopia - Part 6 & 7

There was some after-Christmas shopping to take care of.

Ada got her first taste of Mexican food. Viva El Fenix!

There was still a lot of playing to be done.

And Holding Baby Ada turns to be taken.

Taking fun walks with Daddy.

Group hugs.

Party time sink-baths.

Grammy Smith came by with a lovely Christmas gift for Ada.

Ada celebrated her first First Birthday party with us!

No Hat, Please!!

There were birthday gifts to open.

Great Grandad took photos with his iPad.

Speaking of someone loving to use an iPad...

We had a Cousins Measurement session. Ada is 30 inches tall!

It was a wonderful time. Thanks, everyone!!

Christmas Time Hornucopia - Part 5 - Boxing Day

The morning after Christmas began in grand style with Mimi's Famous Creamed Chip Beef for breakfast.

After that, it was all about SNOW. Checking snow in front.

Snow photos.

Touching snow.

Steely-eyed cowboy types watching out for dangerous snow.

Snow sliding (using Uncle Mark's brilliant plastic bag toboggan idea!)

Snow sliding with style.

Team snow sliding.

Snow sliding NOT with style.

When everyone was thouroughly cold and sated with sliding, action moved indoors to Gingerbread House construction. John was the champion builder.

Too soon, the Penna clan had to head for home.

And it was back to play time! Peek-a-boo!