Ship - Day 4

Our second stop was San Juan, Puerto Rico.


What do you do in an exotic sea port city? Go shopping, of course! CVS was first on our list...


This picture is for Mark and Tony.


When we returned to our cabin, we found the final part of our Romance Package. Decorations!


We loved it! Our room had a festive look for the rest of our trip.


Before we left San Juan, we watched some of the activity around us. This is the Disney Fantasia heading out.


A four-masted naval training ship from Argentina was next to us.


The little bumps above the sail are seamen, working on the sail.


The tugs pushed them out into clear air, as they began to set sails.


The jib sails are starting to come up.



Then the mainsheets. It was an impressive sight as she sailed away.

Ship - Day 3

We spent this day at sea. As we were beginning to adjust to an appropriate "laid back" attitude, we spent a good bit of time doing this.
 

In the evening, we went the first of two Ice Shows. This is before it started.

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!!