followed by dropping Vivi off at the kids club, and finding some nice seats on the deck for reading/drawing.
Then we'd pick Vivi up for lunch in the Windjammer, hopefully with a window seat.
She'd hang out with us for a while, usually requesting a strawberry smoothie.
Then she'd go back to the kids club until dinner. The sun set right around dinner time, which was an incredible thing to see before leaving the top deck.
We ate in the main dining room for about half our cruise. The best part was dessert.
Our second at sea day, we changed it up a bit and ate at Chop's Grille, which was yummy. We usually let the kids have their iPads at dinner, so that Jeff and I can have a pseudo date, but at Chop's I totally lost Jeff to a game on Vivi's iPad called Lines. I forgave him, because they were so into it, it was cute.
After dinner one night, Viv and I went out on the balcony to check the moon before bedtime.
Watching the water and sky is one of my favorite things to do on a cruise, and the balcony made it so easy. Both of these pictures were taken from our balcony.
I took the second one as we were leaving Airlie Beach. We decided not to go ashore, since the ship's staff weren't sure if the town had power or not, and it was quite a trip to the shore.
It's really too bad, because the water looked beautiful.
We spent some time exploring the boat, and found the towel animal hang out.
I felt better about staying on the boat after we talked to a couple who had decided to brave it and go ashore. They spent hundreds of dollars hiring a boat to take them to the Great Barrier Reef, but they said the water was so cloudy, they couldn't see even as far as their own feet. So logically, I know that not wasting time and money was the right thing to do, but I was still disappointed. I consoled myself with a spa treatment and a sushi dinner. Vivian passed on the sushi and stayed in the kids club, but Elena was happy to see some Asian food.
She liked my haircut too.
I liked the sushi.
We had another day at sea after that, and it was quite windy, so Elena and I found a place to hang out inside.
When we braved a return to the deck, we were rewarded with a rainbow.
We also saw some dolphins, but I wasn't fast enough to get a picture. That night, Vivian joined us for her dinner pick, mystery dinner theater. It started in one of the clubs with a central stage area, where the plot was laid out, and then the murder took place off stage. After that, we moved to the Italian restaurant where we sat at a large table with other couples (there was only one other kid there). Between courses, the actors came through the restaurant and the plot thickened.
It was super cheesy, but Vivian loved it. At one point, each character came to our table, so that we could question them. Vivian had a great time with that part, and they were great with her. She didn't get the right answer in the end, but she had fun.
We had a shore excursion day in Brisbane, which I'll write about separately, and then we had one last day at sea before returning to Sydney. The highlight of that sea day was the egg drop. We had thought about entering, but then we hadn't come up with an idea to protect an egg being dropped from the tenth deck to the fourth deck. We made a point of getting good seats for the show though. Some people got very creative, and some people just crashed. I got a couple videos.
It was a great way to finish up our Easter cruise.
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