this past week, darrel and i got to go on our first ever vacation without the kids. we went on a short little cruise to catalina, on the carnival elation. we were gone the perfect amount of time. i think that if it would have been one day longer, i would have been going nuts. we had a great time eating, relaxing, eating, watching the shows, eating, laying out by the pool, and oh did i mention eating. we didn't really eat that much, but we could have if we wanted to.
you can't really tell, but this is us on catalina island.
we were lucky enough to have a balcony suite on the ship, and one morning there were at least 20 dolphins playing around, right off of our balcony. it was pretty cool to see so close.
every night they do a turn down service, and leave you some kind of animal made out of towels. here are just a few.
this is the ship's atrium. it's hard to believe that it's on a boat. it was huge. and that's not even all of the floors.
oh by the way, thanks mom and dad for flying down to watch the kids. i didn't have to worry at all about them because i knew they would be in good hands. you guys are the BEST!
