Our First Cruise

I'm a little behind on my blog, but a few weeks ago, we took our very first cruise!! We took the boys with us, and my parents also got to go!! We left from Mobile, Alabama so that we could just drive there and even though it was the oldest, smallest cruise ship that Carnival has (they are about to sell it), we still had a wonderful time!! Since this was our first and we weren't really sure how things would go, we chose to take a 4-day cruise that ported in Cozumel, Mexico.

Carnival Holiday in Mobile, Alabama.
Isn't this beautiful???!!!
They have a program for kids called Camp Carnival, where you can take your kids and they will play games and acitivites with them all day. Hayden didn't go at all, but here is Hunter on the opening night playing a "pass the balloon" game. Once they started dancing, he was out of there.
Here we are having "Cocktails with the Captain" before the Captain's Dinner.
My mom and dad with the boys.
Our "formal" attire...

Hayden swimming in the kiddie pool on the ship. I didn't know this, but they fill the pools each day with salt water.
The day we ported in Cozumel, it started to rain (figures) and was overcast all day. We had chosen to go on an excursion to the beach. We went to Playa del Mia, and it was really nice. They had games set up to play, a playground, swimming pool, beach massages (I still wish I would've gotten one of those), ping pong tables, volleyball, and of course tons of water activities. This is Hayden't first time to the beach. He's a little nervous!!

Hunter in the ocean.

They had a water trampoline and a glacier slide to play on, but you had to be able to swim out to it. Of course, the boys wanted to go, so my dad and Chris swam out there with a kid on their back. They were dying by the time they got there. Needless to say, they didn't go out to the glaicier slide. HA! We also got a taxi, and went into town to shop a little bit. I was a little bit nervous just because you always hear things about other countries. But everyone was so nice; they just all wanted you to come into their store, so they practically dragged you in. I wish we would've had more time to shop. There were some really neat shops!!
Stingray towel that was on our bed one night. They made a different animal out of towels every night.
Every night, we chose to eat dinner at the same restaurant. This was our server, Tina. She is the best waitress I have ever had!!! She was absolutely wonderful!!! The first night, Hunter was so hungry he ordered 2 orders of chicken nuggets and ate every bit of it. They also put this stuff on his plate to make it look pretty that he immediately took off. The 2nd night, he ordered chicken again, and she went ahead and brought out 2 orders, and took the stuff off for him. How is that for customer service? I'm telling you, we ate so much food on this trip!! Everything was so delicious!!!
I will leave you drooling with a picture from chocolate night. Look at that spread!! They had every kind of chocolate you could think of. I think I tried all of them! HA!!

We had a wonderful, relaxing vacation and will definitely be taking a cruise again sometime!