The Cruise Ship

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We are walking up the ramp to enter the Carnival Spirit for the first time. Needless to say, we're excited.
Chesney and Caleb enter the ship.
We walked the ship and then eventually wandered the halls to find our room.
We got upgraded! We paid for a non-balcony room and when we opened our door, we had a nicer room with an ocean view.
Chesney looks out at the port of San Diego.
What's the first thing Tim does? He ''tests'' out the bed.
Spacious room!
Tim also tests the bathroom.
This was during one of our days at sea.
After settling into our room, we checked out the kid's ''Camp Carnival,'' where Caleb would be spending a lot of his time. Caleb had no problem leaving our side for all the fun toys that were in there.
The kids' place even had ps2's!
Caleb didn't want to leave Camp Carnival.
The atrium of the ship was 9 decks high, and had glass elevators.
A view from the top of deck 10 looking down. It was scary.
At the bottom of the atrium.
We then walked the top decks of the ship.
Caleb is breaking the rules.
A view of San Diego.
Later the first day we had our mandatory emergency drills where the entire boat had to do a mock lifeboat evacuation.
I thought it was a pretty ridiculous situation, with thousands of people in bright orange life vests lined up neatly.
Self-portrait.
Caleb liked his life vest.
Shoot, 10 seconds isn't long enough to put on your life vest before the camera goes off.
Our first family picture on this trip.
A morning out at sea.
We had cabin stewards that cleaned our room 3 times a day!
They would leave a different towel animal every night. Very cool.
When the cabin stewards cleaned up, they had a little bit of fun putting away Caleb's toys.
I guess somebody doesn't like Superman.
Caleb is ready for a nap.
We could play some trivia right from our room. Carnival staff would be doing trivia somewhere on the ship, and we could call in our answer. Chesney answered a question correctly and won!
Chesney got a brand-new, shiny, 24-karat, solid gold plastic trivia trophy!
ooooh.
Towel animals on display.
Halloween night, the decks were filled with people in costumes.
There was a free sushi bar. We had sushi whenever we wanted.
Cheseny and Caleb pig out on unhealthy food.
Caleb enjoying his meal.
We could monitor our progress up and down Mexico.
Chesney thinks about the trivia question.
Caleb writes down his answers to the trivia questions.
There was craft time. We each made bracelets.
Aw, matching bracelets.
Caleb gets tickled.
One night we picked Caleb up from Camp Carnival, and he got his face painted. He told them he wanted Spiderman.
Spiderman eats his chicken nuggets in the nice restaurant.
Eating out on formal night.
While in port in Acapulco they brought people on board to do a Folkloric Mexican show
Caleb and the Camp Carnival staff on the last day. They loved him and told us to come back in a year so that they could have him again!
On the last day, we show our appreciation and applaud many of the ship's crew.

Recent photo comments

Shoot, 10 seconds isn't long enough to put on your life vest before the camera goes off.

Kevin L.: So did Tim try to make that face, or is that what he really looks like while trying to put a life jacket on? (Now I've got to watch more closely next time we go water skiing)

I thought it was a pretty ridiculous situation, with thousands of people in bright orange life vests lined up neatly.

Kevin: Funny how everyone looks like they also think it's "pretty ridiculous" except that guy in the yellow hat. What's up with him?

Caleb is ready for a nap.

A.J.: He looks old.

Tim: Why do you say that?