Hello From Sea.......

As I write this, I am somewhere in the ocean between New York City and Grand Turks. We are traveling on the Carribean Princess Cruise Ship and it is truly AMAZING! We sailed from Brooklyn Harbor on Saturday afternoon and have spent 2 days at sea. Each morning we have enjoyed breakfast on our balconty overlooking the beautiful blue water, and as much as I am not a morning person, it isn't a bad way to start the day.

Saturday, the girls had the intersting experience of swimming in a pool on a ship in the ocean. First... it is salt water. Not quite what they expected. Second, the waves and motion outside the ship? Yeah, well, that is also INSIDE the POOL! Erin LOVE, LOVE, LOVED it... Haley? Not so much... The girls are enrolled in the children's program on board. Let me put it this way- We go to pick them up at the pre-determined time and see other parents being greeted by their children running to hug them yeling "mommy! daddy!" Ira and I are greeted with "NO! I am not ready! Go away and come back later!" They won't leave. They have had a Ping Pong tournament, made clay, tons of art projects, an ice cream party, and haveso many friends. They are each in a different group and different room, so they get to spend some time apart from each other and loving every minute of it. Last night, we kept the girls out of the kids dinner time so they could have dinner with us and we had a nice family dinner in the Italian restaurant. They couldn't wait to get out of there.

Today, we had lunch at the pool, swam for a few hours, and took the girls to see the ice carving demonstrations after the kids carnival in the morning. Then they spent the afternoon with their friends playing Twister, doing Turtle things {I don't ask} making clay, beading, and who knows what else! Tonight was pirate night and they are probably walking the plank with eye patches on as I sit here typing! The one thing they have their mind set on is staying up until midnight, so tonight we are taking blankets up to the top deck and watching a movie under the stars at 10:00 {The Waterhorse is showing on the Jumbo Screen tonight} and we couldn't be more excited about it.

All in all, it works out well, The kids play. I go to the spa and sit in the sauna or on the hot-rock tables, and Ira spends his free time in the casinos! {We tried reading on our balcony outside our room, but the sear air acts like some kind of drug and we both promptly fell asleep. It just doesn't seem to work} Who knows what the nexts three days and three ports will bring, but our 2 days at sea have been fan-tab-ulous!

Will keep you posted on our travels... Missing you all!