Traveling Without Us: Boarding the Ship

Now when they left, they promised to post for me each day of the cruise, but I guess Boarding Day doesn't count, all I got was pictures and a chat.

Basically, everything ran super smoothly. The ship only has 400 guests rather than the 4000 it can carry. They were excited about so many things! Curly sent me a pic of the basketball court.

Baby Doll loved that her bed came down from the ceiling and turned the couch into a set of bunkbeds for her and Curly.

Scout was amazed that she could choose ANYTHING she wanted on the menu in the dining room.

And Drama Queen (and me) was just grateful they all got safely on the ship.

Traveling Without Us: Off They Go!

Today was a bit stressful. I'm pretty sure I told you the reason Drama Queen came to town was to take our places this week on the cruise to Ensanada with our three youngest.

After we cruised in Florida, my sweetie said "never again," so we asked Drama Queen,  who quickly accepted. There has been tons of work and planning, but none of that mattered until we had 4 negative Covid tests.

The 4 people running tests had a great audience watching them. Scout went first and she was fine with a quick negative. Baby Doll was next, remember, all these tests were the proctored kind, and just like that, half of our cruisers were negative.

It's not that we expected anyone to have Covid. Nobody was sick, but with Omicron, you just never know. Drama Queen took care of her own test and breathed a sigh of relief when she was done.

That just left Curly.

He was in the middle of an online class, but I made him take a break. It takes 25 minutes to run a test and 20 minutes after his negative result, the kids were piling into the car so they could get on the road.

Have fun!! Stay Safe!