No, we did not fall off the face of the earth...

we just went on vacation!!!!!

My parents treated the whole family to a cruise as our Christmas gift this year. We sailed on the Norwegian Dawn from Miami to Samana, D.R., St. Thomas, US V.I., Tortola, B. V.I., and Great Stirrup Caye, Bahamas(NCL's private island). It was a GREAT week away with my sister, her husband and 3 children, my parents and of course, my hubby, M and myself!

M and her Baba are all smiles as we sail off into the sunset on our first evening aboard. We said, "bye-bye Florida" as we headed out to sea. I don't think M completely understood that we were on a big boat with water all around us, even though we talked about it quite a bit.
Ready for dinner our first evening. Baba is wearing the shirt he wore the day we met M. M is wearing a dress we bought in Guangzhou, China. The dress is quickly getting too short and I figured this would proably be her last time to wear it. :(

When we asked M prior to the cruise what she was going to do on the "big boat" she said, "eat fish and dance". Well she did both on the very first day. In fact, she danced in the atrium of the ship almost every night to a 3 man band. Here she is dancing with her, Loa Loa.

Some dramatic moves.

Our first day was on board was busy with unpacking and settling in. It was so nice to sit down with my whole family in the evening for dinner. I plan to post make a post daily for the next several days to recap our vacation so keep checking back!

Jenny