Normally we spend Christmas with family in Canada, or family comes from Canada to our house.
This year we decided to celebrate Christmas in a more traditional way... by taking a cruise to the Bahamas.
Ya know, as our ancestors didn't do.
So after class on the last day of school for the kids we piled into the Minivan of Destiny, and drove to Jacksonville, and got on a ship for 5 days of fun and sun.
These are some pictures, starting with the one on the upper left, of Abigail on our ship, the Carnival Elation.
This is the ship at night.
And this is the ship in the morning.
On Christmas Eve we went to a private island in the Bahamas and played with some sting rays, as was foretold by prophesy.
On Christmas Day we hung out on a beach on another private island, as one traditionally does during the holidays.
While us adults swam, then sat on chairs and watched the world go by, the kids started digging a hole. Pretty soon they made friends with some local teenagers and they all dug an impressively large hole in the beach. Good times were had by all.
This was a seriously big hole. Both kids could sit inside it, with a good 6" of clearance above them to the top of the hole.
We did a bunch of other things, but I completely suck at taking travel photos lately. We saw shows, played in pools, drank pina coladas, spelunked for rubber duckies, and ate a lot of food. However I'll leave you with this dramatic shot of life at sea.
Have a Happy New Years, all!
