Our cruise was a 4 night/5 day cruise to the Bahamas out of Cape Canaveral, Florida. We cruised with Royal Carribean. They did not have any rooms big enough to fit our whole family, so we had to book 2 different rooms. The kids lucked out with their ocean view balcony room. Danny and I got stuck with a balcony over this outdoor park on the 8th deck. 't end up going out there much because it was a bit awkward facing all of the other cruisers balconies. We would have much preferred an ocean view. The first 2 days of the cruise were spent on the shop doing all kinds of fun activities. Here are some of the things we did.
The dinners: Formal night, Carribean Night, or just in regular clothes. It was always fun to meet up together for dinner together in the dining room. There was a mix up with getting us all seated at the same table, so we had to request a change on the first night and ended up at this big round table just inside the doors of the dining room. Our waiters did great with the last-minute change.
The Pool and Hot Tub: The kids spent hours at the pool and hot tub. It didn't help that this is also where the ice cream was located, too. They must have eaten over 10 ice cream cones a day.
The towel animals: We all loved our towel creations on this cruise. My favorites were the love birds on Valentine's Day and the bat wearing my sunglasses.
Flow rider: I think almost everyone in the group tried the flow rider at least once. The kids all tried it multiple times. They started with having you move from side to side and front to back. Then you got to lift your arms and move. Then they would have you get up on your knees and move around, and last was the one leg up other one kneeling or the sitting position on the board. Most people wiped out before getting to those last 2.
The zip line: I think we all tried the zip line, as well. Except for Tyler and Camden. They were not heavy enough. It wasn't that exciting. It just went from one side of the ship to the other over an opening that went down like 10 decks.
The Rock wall: located on the opposite side of the ship from all of the other activities was the rock wall. The kids tried climbing them a couple of times.
Sports Court: They had a variety of sports activities and competitions on their sports court. There was basketball, pickleball, soccer, and volleyball. Connor and I entered the adult volleyball competition. We rigged it so that we ended up on the same team, team #3 out of 3 teams. I thought we would not have a good team because we got all of the late comers. But we ended up winning the whole thing, which consisted of beating both teams once. The old guy on our team was our favorite teammate. He was like 70 and it made his day to be on the winning team. Connor and the guy in red were probably the reason we won. The red guy stayed in the setter position the whole time which gave us lots of opportunities for good hits, especially Connor.
Some other things that we did that I do not have pictured: we ate A LOT of pizza at this pizza place on deck 5. The boys watched the Mario Movie during the volleyball competition in a theater room. We played 1 High any chance we got. We ate A LOT. We played ping pong. We watched a couple of shows. We missed out on ice skating, mini golf, and a ride on the carousel (for the boys). We just never got around to those things. Mostly, we just enjoyed hanging out with the Knudsen's. We were shocked how long it took us to connect with them on Day 2. But then we learned that the kids slept until almost noon and Becky was at the gym and then getting cleaned up for the day. None of them were answering their room phones or the multiple knocks at their doors.
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