Oh the cruise was lovely! We traveled on the Norwegian Star for a 7 day cruise. It was our Christmas present from Mom & Dad McQuay - awesome! We got to spend a whole week with some of our favorite people - Mom & Dad McQuay, Brenden & Natalie, Caitlan & Megan. Pretty Fabulous!
We had 4 stops:
One thing I read online about cruising with a baby was to opt for a balcony room so that when the baby sleeps we could still enjoy the sun. Best idea ever - and not for us - but for the Babbs! She absolutely loved it! The week before the cruise Grandma Laurie helped Evette learn the word "outside" and on the cruise she would run up to the balcony door and say "oww-sigh" [outside]. So cute. She loved it. She spent so much time out there. cutie pie.
We were lucky enough to somehow snag a handicap room which was also a huge blessing. Our room was significantly larger than the others [plenty of running around room] and the bathroom was huge so we could put her bed in there. Don't judge! This way we could have pizza parties, card games, and whatever else while she was sleeping. It was great. I'm sure the cleaning people were like "what kind of crazy people....." oh well!
Towel animals! We didn't get one every night because the Babbs went down so early for bed that we didn't always get the room turned down.
The family was really wonderful. Everyone was really helpful with Evette. Helping her eat, entertaining her, carrying her, babysitting duty - seriously made the cruise so much more enjoyable. Thanks a million, friends! For the night shows we would take shifts with the family so someone was always in the room while baby was sleeping. Brenden also gets special props - he put in a lot of baby time during the evenings because he had a paper to work on for school!
There were also lots of activities for Evette to do. There was finger painting and song time for babies 0-2 yrs and there was a room dedicated to babies age 0-2 with lots of toys to play with that was open all day. We spent a couple of hours there - so nice!
There were some pretty great shows and some pretty not great shows on the ship. The comedy troop was awesome but the dancers/singers needed some serious attention. Megan's face was priceless as she watched them perform lol.
One show that we went to was "Dancing with the Stars" we all put our names in for the drawing and Sean got picked!! There were 6 couples that danced to all sorts of types of songs and got eliminated one by one. Turned out Sean and his partner won! They were amazing!
I'm sure his dance partner was excited to not be dancing with an older drunk guy who couldn't dance - he kinda took her by surprise, I think! Congrats! Throughout the rest of the week people would stop us and congratulate him! What a stud.
Afterwards there was an awesome dance party. I hadn't been to a dance in a long long time and it was awesome. The overly loud music and the dancing around like a crazy fool actually cured the migraine that I had had for the last 4 days. Amazing.
On the last night of the cruise we got dressed up all fancy for a delicious dinner. So of course we had to take multiple pictures.
This is Evette's sign for "food". She was tired of waiting for dinner lol
She has recently discovered her hair and she loves to fluff it
Aren't they good looking!?!?!? Babbs and I had to cut out of dinner a little bit early sometimes because they lasted a long time and she'd get quite sleepy.
Our formal picture - not bad!
Amazing trip. Goes down in the books for one of the most fabulous vacations, ever!
Thanks!!!!
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