Come Sail Away

The week of January 25th marked a huge milestone - Baby's First Cruise! Of course, we chose Royal Caribbean to for this special occasion. Though I'm afraid we have ruined her for all other cruises because Royal Caribbean is the best! Can you tell I'm biased?? Ok, that's it for my sales pitch (gotta do my employee duty).

We sailed on the Navigator of the Seas 5-Night Western Caribbean out of Miami. The Navigator is one of Royal Caribbean's larger ships, and has the city street down the middle (the Royal Promenade), which is one of my favorite places on the ship. We also paid a little extra to upgrade our stateroom to a family ocean view. It normally sleeps six, so it was plenty of room for the 3 of us and our mountain of stuff (think pack-N-play, stroller, and the 3 humongous suit cases).

But what really made the difference in the enjoyment of this vacation was that my mom came with us. I don't think this trip would have been nearly as fun and relaxing for us if we had to wrangle the baby all by ourselves.

Here we are on embarkation day (January 25). This is our family ocean view stateroom. You cant see from this angle, but there is a bunch of space over to the right, and a mini-bedroom by the door. All this space was definitely worth every penny! Even Marty was excited, can't you tell?


While Marty napped, my Mom, Brianne and I took a walk around the ship. I had Brianne in the Baby Bjorn, which made it a lot easier to get around. The age cut off to cruise is 6 months, so Brianne just made it! She was the youngest baby on the ship, so she was definitely a little star. Here we are leaving the Port of Miami. We danced Baby's First Macarena during the sail away party.