This past week, the countdown was finally over and it was time to hit the road toward Galveston to set sail for our cruise!!!
The drive was pretty intense...but we made the most of our stops, as demonstrated by Kate and Papa, doing their stretches.
After a night in the hotel, it was finally "Cruise Day!"
relax folks, it's a virgin Pina Colada, of course!
The first night on the ship they had a dive-in movie by the pool. What would be showing, you ask? Why none other than Frozen, one of our very favorite movies!
After a fun day at sea, it was time to dock in Cozumel, Mexico. This was our beach day, so we took a catamaran ride to a private island, Isla Pasion.
It was a blast! We were very fortunate to have a slightly overcast day so we did not fry out in the scorching sun. The kids loved their very first trip to the ocean. We had a wonderful lunch, a fun time swimming and collecting sea shells, and there was even a kids play area on the beach. Such a fun day!
The next day we docked in Progresso, Mexico and took a bus down to the local market. This was a really fun experience for the kids and Matt to experience Mexico as I'm familiar with it. Kate had her first Mexican Coke - she LOVED it!
This nice gentlemen came over and sang us a song.
Kate and Ryan loved coming back to our room each night to see which towel animal our room steward had made for us.
We also enjoyed have room service bring us breakfast in bed each morning.
Ryan and Matt joined in on "YMCA" one day at lunch.
Kate and Ryan got to go to a Build-a-Bear activity one day at Camp Carnival. They made a giraffe and a unicorn.
On our last day at sea we went to a workshop where we learned how to fold the towel animals like they make for the rooms. I was pretty proud of our little bulldog (you can tell its a bulldog, right?)
These two had a BLAST on our trip. Ryan told us he wants to go back and live on the cruise ship some day. I asked him what his job would be on the ship, he said "working at Guy's Burger Joint, of course!" Those were some yummy burgers!
