Cruisin

How do I sum up 5 days and 4 nights of fun?

art by my favorite neighbor, Mike Morris

I have 175 pictures to pick from (yes, that's an average of 35 pictures each day), and that doesn't even include those we purchased on board!

If I posted everything I want about this amazing family vacation it would be like your annoying neighbors who invite you over for cocktails and a slide show of their trip to Europe. Snooze fest! - at least for those of you who didn't get to enjoy our getaway.

Highlights and Things I Learned On Vacation:

• Party of 26. Wait! No. Make that 30.
• Rocking cruise ships will make me puke.
• If there's a water slide & a heated pool then it doesn't matter that it's about 50 degrees outside.
• $10 for me & the kids to have lunch in Ensenada includes a seat overlooking the gorgeous coast.

• Sleeping in a cave (cabin with no windows) is the only way to get all 3 of my kids to sleep past 8 am.
• When given the option my boys will choose chicken nuggets, french fries and chocolate milk over lobster, steak, ribs, and/or various delicious, high end menu items.
• Tressa makes even a busted (no pun intended) dress look good.

• Chocolate melting cake - mmmm.
• Papa turned 64 surrounded by the children and grandchildren who love him...plus a whole dining room full of unknowing party participants.
• Gary sucks at Karaoke, but is definitely the most entertaining!
• J.R. is turning into her mother - a program, really?!
• Auntie Tressa may be most of the nieces/nephews "favorite", but Riley loves me!
• Nash created a look we like to call Mexican Taxi Cab Hair.

• My kids cannot get all their homework finished on a vacation.
• I can survive without a cell phone or the internet for nearly 5 days.
• They may all be freakishly tall, but I love my three little brothers.