In front of the dining rooms are these funny sinks. The one that looks like an airplane distributes water in the middle and air drys on the "wings". The side thing automatically gives you soap. You had to be careful in drying your hands to not get by the soap or you'd have to start the whole washing process over.
Here's the bridge. I don't know if that's what it's really called, but that's what I'm calling it.
Our ship had an ice skating rink, so in addition to going to an ice show, we had to go ice skating.
After hip surgery, ice terrifies me. I took a few laps and then told Brian that I was being super brave by doing this, thanks to my hip. We called it quits after just 5 minutes. We didn't want to risk dislocation. But, we CAN now say that we went ice skating on a ship.
We went to a few shows. The entertainers were pretty good.
On our last night, the kitchen and serving crew treated everyone to special blue drinks. Our servers knew by the end of the first night that we didn't drink and were always so careful and attentive to this. They brought us the kids' version of the special drink without us even needing to remind them.
We had to get a picture with them on our last night because they were so awesome!
Our table seated six. One couple came the first night, and the second couple came the second night, but nobody came after that. I hope it wasn't because of us.
We arrived back in port early, early on Saturday morning. We had booked a VIP tour of the Everglades, and they came and got us from the port to take us to the Everglades Holiday Park.
We took an airboat through the Everglades, looking unsuccessfully for Alligators.
Our guide told us to sit in the back since we'd have the best views, so we did.
We saw lots of cool birds, but no gators.
After our airboat ride, we went to the gator show.
This guy has a show on Animal Planet or something. It was crazy watching him right next to these huge alligators.
We learned that Alligators are actually afraid of humans because they see us as giants. Also, gators are cold blooded, and so it takes a lot of energy to attack things, so they only use that energy if they feel threatened. Regardless, I'm going to continue to give them a wide berth.
After the show, we got to hold a baby alligator.
We kind of wished that we'd booked our flight for that night instead of Sunday, but instead, we went to our hotel, grabbed lunch at a nearby delicious Mexican restaurant, and went to go see a movie.
While we were gone, there were a few minor incidents. The day after getting to Florida, Gabe got pink eye. And one day, while we were gone, Gabe came out of his room in the morning looking like this:
My mom said it was just a bloody nose, but his room and face looked like a crime scene.
Gabe also went #2 on the potty. I won't share the picture of his success.
When we arrived at the airport on Sunday morning, my mom was going through security to catch a flight to D.C. (My dad was heading back to Idaho, and Ethan picked us up with our kids. )
My mom told me that Gabe had been waking up every morning and getting dressed first thing, which included him removing and replacing his own diaper. That morning, his overnight diaper was also filled with poop. She tried to clean it up the best she could before she had to leave, but warned me I might need to give the carpet a little scrub.
Guess what we started the next day?
It was a wonderful trip, and I'm so grateful for my parents for watching our kids through the ear infection, pink eye, bloody noses, and diapers. Yay for ten years of marriage!!!!!
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