WE ARE HOME!

We got home about 8pm last night. Wow! I'm so tired still this morning. Overall our trip was good. I have to say though that I will never cruise with Carnival again. In my opinion it does not compare to Royal Caribbean and Eric and I found ourselves constantly disappointed from the shows (that were so horrible we walked out of one and my mom fell asleep during another!), to the dinner menu (no desserts that were that great), to the decor. It was just not that great. The one thing I did love is that they had self serve laundry. With a baby that spits up all the time that really helped and also we packed pretty light for the week and I just did three loads of laundry along the way. But I think we are going to be Royal Caribbean cruisers and that's it!

The kids were great. Cayden had maybe 3 meltdowns the whole week and I was surprised about that because she was sooo tired with all the sun/beaches/swimming and short naps. She did go into the "Camp Carnival" kids group 2-5yrs 3 nights from 8-10pm so that was awesome for us! Keenan was the biggest shock of all. The flight there he didn't make a peep. He slept on me the whole time. The first 4 days of the cruise he was like this whole different child we never met before. He never fussed. He was happy and LOVED being outside so much. He slept on chairs at the beach and was just so happy. It was strange. The last 2.5 days he was back to his old tricks. He was whining up a storm and freaking out unless you took him outside. Apparently he loves being outside. Eric spent so much time walking him out on the decks of the ship. Dinner every night was hard. It was his fussy time at night so many nights Eric or I left dinner for a bit and walked around with him until he was quiet. That part was a bit frustrating. Overall he was great. But this morning he has been a pill. I guess he hates our house. It doesn't help that he has been having a killer time teething.

I'll post pictures later when I upload them and figure out how to do a slide show. I didn't really take as many pictures as I usually do and none of the islands - just pics of the kids.