I'm interrupting the travelogue of my latest trip to Asia to write about our latest family vacation - a four-day cruise to Cozumel on the Carnival Destiny!
As you may imagine, this was our first cruise since Fifi was born. While the trip did go smoother than I expected, cruising with an infant still provides some challenges. For one, although Fifi is starting to eat table food, her primary form of nourishment is still our home-made purees, so we had to make sure we brought enough squash and apple, green bean and pear, and sweet potato, carrot, and chicken purees onto the boat.
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| Fifi is starting to eat table food |
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| She still needs her purees though, or she'll put on her angry face... |
Also, because of her need for at least one nap, we had to work our excursions around her sleeping schedule, but that did not cause many problems. The biggest impact was that we didn't do things we'd ordinarily do on cruises, such as watch the Las Vegas style shows (since the loud noises tended to scare the baby) or go on the pool slides. In fact, we didn't actually get a chance to swim at all on this short four-day cruise...
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| We didn't get to ride on this slide... |
The Carnival Destiny still had plenty of activities, though we didn't necessarily spend a whole lot of time on the boat:
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| Playing with wine-bottle stoppers |
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| Fifi was pretty pleased with her ability to put the stoppers back! |
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| Fifi at the slots |
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| Karaoke on the giant out-door screen. They actually put football and basketball games on this screen too! |
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| Mini-Golf! |
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| Fifi setting up her putt |
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| And of course, towel animals! |
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| All-you-can-eat ice cream! |
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| Climbing stairs! |
But what would a cruise be without land excursions? Though this was a short, four-day cruise, we still got to visit two ports-of-call. The first was Key West, where we took Fifi around to see the statue garden at the art museum and where I also took her up the Treasure Museum Tower:
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| Long-exposure shot of a wind-wheel |
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| A neat sculpture of a painter painting the scene across the way |
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| Same scene, focusing on the sculpture in the distance |
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| And to round out this photography clinic, a final shot focusing on the painting! |
The big excursion, however, was at Cozumel, Mexico, where we went to check out some Mayan ruins!
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| This Davy Jones statue is actually a real person... |
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| We stopped at this shop for some trinkets and supplies |
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| Mexican wrestler masks! |
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| This says "Big Brother" in Mayan |
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| An iguana riding a mule |
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| Novelty T-Shirts |
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| I love how this wide-angle shot turned out |
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| Hi-Yah! Ninja Kick! |
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| Fifi loves swinging! |
It was a short trip, but it was a great time with the family!
