The Big Boat!

On our Spring Break Jamie took us on a Carnvial Cruise to Freeport Bahamas and Nassau Bahamas. The girls and I had so much fun and this was our first vacation ever to have daddy completely to ourselves! No cell phone and no 2 day vacations! We loved our time as a family and made a lot of fun memories together!

I was so stressed getting to the boat I forgot to take a picture of the harbor in Cape Canaveral or pictures of us boarding! LOL! (I was running behind as usual and I got us lost once we ran through a sun pass toll and we don't have a sun pass (Yikes) so I was on a mission and forgot how I would love to blog our trip from beginning to end! Ha!

It has taken me half the day to upload all these pictures and somehow I got them all out of order so hope you can make it out.

Night 3 Bear towel

Putt putt golf is the first thing we did after we found our room!

We had been talking about our upcoming trip on a big boat...When we finally found our room after our life preserver lesson and fire drills! Caroline looked at us a bit aggravated and said "When are we going to be on the boat" I said "Caroline we are" and she said "Well Mom this is NOT a boat this is a HOTEL" We all liked to have fell down... Poor baby! We had some explaining to do...She was ready for a boat ride!

So we quickly had to take her to the top deck and show her we were surrounded by water and we were on a big boat! lol

At this point all I could think about after the drills was Titanic and I was stressing about what I would do in an emergency! Just relax and enjoy your trip is what I finally convinced myself to do... and the fact that Jamie's Granny Pat was scared to death we were going to get tossed overboard didn't help my crazy what if's ..(That was her first words when she was told we were going) "O God I hope they are careful they are throwing people overboard left and right" "I just saw it on the NEWS" I love Granny Pat and she defiantly makes us all smile but at the moment on the trip I couldn't help but hear her fears in my head. We walked around the first day on the ship holding hands. LOL

Lauren on the front of the ship! She was loving every minute! Me...I was still scared and ready for us to all hold hands again!

Daddy O relaxing by the pool! He defiantly deserves to relax!

What a sweet heart he is!

Playing Putt-Putt golf. The wind was blowing hard at sea

Florida is behind us! lol

notice the cruise ship approaching us....We left the port 30 minutes before them and they passed us like we weren't even moving! lol

"Little embarrassing" Jamie says! Ha!

My precious family!

Freeport, we woke up here on Day 2 of our cruise!

We visited the straw market and spent the day on the ship at the pool.

The girls really wanted play at the pool and slide down the slides

Also it was the captains dinner so I knew that would take awhile to get everyone ready.

Getting Ready for the Pool

The Captains Dinner!

The girls looked forward to seeing what towel they made for them each night after supper

Monkey was the last night of our cruise! He was hanging and the girls thought that was super cool.

A Tug Boat in Freeport

Ready for the slide! Caroline was alittle unsure of the twister! lol

Loving the pool

The pool

The girls all dressed up.

Poor Caroline had her eyes closed! :(

A couple we sat with at dinner took a picture of us on the stairs however we got ran off.

Our friends we met on the ship. They sat at the same table as us.

Sweet family.

My Sweet daughters

Day 3 Nassau, Bahamas

That morning Lauren and I went snorkeling! It was so much fun. Lauren had never been before, she got to see a coral reef and take pictures of different types of fish and coral. We got back from our excursion around 11:30 and went to the boat to get Daddy and Caroline to go explore the straw market and go hang out at the beach! Our cab ride was a bit scary but we made it to Cabbage Key ready to get in the beautiful clear water.

We were right next to Atlantis so after taking to a couple at the beach beside us we decided to sneak in and check it out! WOW! It was gorgeous and defiantly on my bucket list of places to go. It was very kid friendly and the girls loved seeing all the animals. Lauren was a little worried we were going to jail because we kind of snuck in and the officer whom I begged to let us go in said you can only go in for in minute...(Which turned into an hour)

Glad to let you know we made it out alive and with two Pina Colada's that I bought...which was the best I have ever had! (Yum!!!)

We walked around the path and checked out all the marine life.

Caroline got to see a shark!

So brave swimming with her sister

Love that water and sand! It was Beautimous

Night 1 Towel Crab!

Jamie being the funny person he is asked the girls if they would like to see a flying crab??? They were slow to answer....and Jamie got in the bed under the sheets and kicked the crab across the room making caroline cry! lol She really loved the towel animals so we laughed and teased her the rest of the trip. Lauren however thought it was very funny and attempted to remake it to help her sisters sad feelings

Night 3 was this special Monkey!!

Jamie asked who wants to see a flying monkey and the room filled with NO!!!!!!!

We had a lot of fun and made a lot of fun memories as a family! I love and cherish my time with my husband and my girls! This was the best Spring Break Ever! Thank you honey for taking us and making memories with us.

~Franne