family cruise adventure Day one at Sea

We spent the first day at sea heading to the Grand Turk Island. The weather was good and we all found our sea legs soon enough. The boys did not suffer from sea sickness at all during the whole trip. They actually liked the continuous gentle rocking of the ship. The Maasdam was quite small compared to other cruise ships so it rolled and pitched a bit more than on previous cruises the other members of my team told us.

Here is a picture of the boys ringing the ships bell.

More hanging out around the ship, we did not see anything exotic in the ocean the whole cruise though some of our team claimed to have seen a whale in the water right near the ship. (but that just might have been a good at sea conversation starter ;-D )

The kids liked the way they craved the ships name in the bench (and it seems on every other surface of the ship from the cutlery in the dinning room to your cabin bathrobe) So we took a picture here too.

Here we are hanging out by the pools, they enjoyed the time around the pools a lot one reason was the motion of the ship kept the surface of the pools continually rolling back and forth making small waves.

Here is a better view of the pool at the back of the ship where we spent quite a bit of time. It looks nice and empty now but when the sun was up you could hardly find a free pool chair. We had some amazing sunsets and sunrises on the open sea.

Can't wait tomorrow we land at Grand Turk Island.