Welcome to our family cruise adventure.

The first day of the cruise. We, as in the boys and myself went on a 7 day Caribbean cruise from Fort Lauderdale. Which was like 1600 miles away from San Antonio. So really the first part of the adventure was getting there. Two fun fill days in the van. We travelled through Houston to Beaumont to Pensacola to Tallahassee to Jacksonville then down along the Florida coast to Fort Lauderdale. I had never been out east so it was alot to take in. Over all the boys found the trip quite interesting. We got into Ft Lauderdale around midday on the 2nd of Jan and boarded the ship named the Maasdam in the early afternoon. And got checked into our cabins. Which were nice and comfortable, but a little small like you would expect most cabins to be.

Here is the map of the Islands we went to. First stop was Grand Turk, then San Juan, Puerto Rico, then St Thomas and then to Half moon Cay (pronounced Key) and then home to Ft Lauderdale.

We will feature each of those islands on a separate update so stay tuned.

Here are the boys on the main deck under one of the life boats. There was a lot of detail

and the boys were interested in everything.

Here we are at the front of the ship with one of the ships aux anchors.


One of the other Cruise ships in the harbor from the Holland America line. Our ship sort of looked like this only smaller.

We had a escape drill on the first day and had to stand under our assigned life boat with the rest of the passangers. The best part that the boys enjoied the most was wearing the life jackets.

The boys happy to be alive and on the beginning of our fun carribean adventure.