Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all our family and friends. Its another beautiful day at sea with smooth seas and lots of sunshine. I forgot to mention in previous postings that Paige is like the rock star on this cruise that has a following. Every time we walk somewhere kids are shouting her name and she just looks at me and says “she’s just a friend of mine” too funny. Last night when we came to the cabin to get ready for dinner someone had left a message and wanted her to come to their cabin for a sleep over…really? We did meet this family on our excursion in St. Maarten and ran into them again while shopping in St. Thomas. These cabins are so small why would you want to add another kid? Geez. Anyway today Paige is going to rehearse for the kids talent show with one of her friends, Chris went to the rock climbing wall while there isn’t a line and Lindsay went to walk with mom so it is quiet here for now. Tomorrow we are in Nassau and will spend the day in Atlantis and Saturday morning back in Miami. It is hard to believe that it is almost over already. I am extremely grateful to have had this time with Teresa and the kids. Chris loves this ship for all there is for him to do but generally I think it is a good ship for families. The main thing I don’t like is the cabin layout and I wouldn’t cruise this ship again without the kids for that reason. I love the specialty restaurants although it adds to the cost of the cruise for a family.

The talent show was cute and Paige did some good cartwheels. She and two other little girls danced to Kung Fu Fighting and did some acrobatics. Chris played basketball almost all day. Teresa watched some of the football games on the big screen at the back of the ship and the kids watched the Nick Live Poolside show and mostly stayed around the pool all afternoon. Everyone had the same idea to eat Thanksgiving dinner in the main dining rooms and the wait was over an hour. The service was awful when we did finally get seated and Chris didn’t like his steak so I took the girls and went back to the cabin as they both have colds now and were tired. Teresa took Chris to the buffet which is where we should have all gone. Paige was asleep before Teresa and Chris came back and shortly thereafter we were all asleep.