And Kacey here, back to wrap up this whole week of adventure.
Our last day on the ship was another at sea, windy, cold day so we had to come up with our own adventures.
But before I get to the adventures, I want to backtrack to some of the other daily adventures we enjoyed throughout the week.
Eating: Always a great experience on a cruise. Our group was so big we always had to split between two tables.
I didn't notice the trend at first, but I soon caught on that the desired table to choose was the one that I was not sitting at. I wonder why...
We ate at the restaurant for almost every meal. Jon commented that while it was kind of fun to order as many appetizers as he wants, it is not that different from his real life. He gets hungry, and someone makes him good food.
I, on the other hand, as the creator of that deliciously scheduled food, very much appreciated my week free of dishes, cooking, chopping, grocery shopping, not to mention bed making, room cleaning... it was heavenly.
Think how relaxing my week could have been without the added belly bulge and two appendages my parents lovingly refer to as the grandchildren. Thankfully the drinking age on the ship was pretty lax...
Just kidding... though they did keep trying to serve me alcohol. Seriously people? Do we need more screwed up babies in this world?
Our waiters were also frequently disrupted from our several course dinners to bust a move. It was mildly entertaining, until we made Courtney and Scarlet go up and join them one evening.
And Courtney says she is always left out. Look at the fun we let her have sometimes!
And back to day 7. We all had one goal of the day, to win a cheap plastic cruise shaped trophy. It was really Kristy's goal, but, having nothing better to do, we all adopted it as our own. The day was full of different trivia games and we were determined to be the winner at one of them.
My kids spent their second full hour of the whole week at "Camp Carnival" (aka daycare, which by the way most parents were dropping of their kids full time, even when they left the ship) and I joined the trivia seeking bunch. We combined all of our skill efforts and competed in the following:
Fact or Fiction
Ultimate Mind Game
Scattegories
Super Duper Trivia
Triviathon: Slogans
Triviathon: 80's Guess that Song
How many trophies did we come home with, you ask? Two? Three?
Try zero. My mom was so ticked by the end, convinced all of the "winners" were just adding a few points at the end she was seriously ready to just announce us as the winners no matter what score we got. We convinced her the high honor of the lead painted cruise ship would be forever ruined with our deceit. So instead we just lost a lot of trivia games.
The last show of the evening was called "Carnival Legends" where our fellow cruise attendees dressed up as famous people (i.e. Britney Spears, Madonna) and sang on stage. After witnessing a few rounds of karaoke on the ship, we steered clear of that promising evening and found an abandoned trivia room to play a little Trivial Pursuit, Team Edition. I should mention we found the abandoned room after my dad politely kicked us out of his cabin, claiming our combined body heat and utter disregard for his well made bed made us unwanted guests.
We didn't get around to doing more than throwing out a few random questions so officially decide which of us was actually the smartest, but it was a great way to spend our final evening. We laughed, wrestled around with the kids one last time and enjoyed just being together. It was such a great experience to be able to go on such a fun vacation with all of us, but I think we all realized we tend to have fun wherever we go. The cruise was just icing on our already happy cake family.
Too soon it was morning and time to send the airport people off, the college people off, and make the drive back home. My kids still ask when we get to go on the boat again, but more frequently they ask when we will see Grandma Peggy again.
Happy Mother's Day, mom. We really are grateful to be your children.
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