The first thing you’ll notice about today is that our photos are overwhelmingly related to food.  Ahhhh – cruise-life.

We were up early-ish and got ourselves right to breakfast.  They sat us at a large, round table on the lower level.  We had breakfast in the Washington Dining Room (our dinners are served in the Lincoln Dining Room.)   Our waitstaff was excellent.  Because it was a sea day the menu was a brunch menu with expanded options. 

I snuck out to the bathroom and when I returned the girls had been given two hat shaped cookies each, along with frosting dispensers and directions on how to make Cat Hats.

So they got to enjoy some pre-breakfast sugar.

Which should not be confused with the Breakfast Sugar… those are square marshmallows on her pancakes, along with some kind of custard type sauce.

Marie, Tab and I enjoyed our first parfaits of the trip.  These were so good.  The chewiest yogurt you can imagine, and worth every spoonful.

Katriel had asked if she could have macaroni and cheese.  As I was about to explain that macaroni and cheese is not on the menu the delightful server said that of course – he could get her macaroni and cheese.

After breakfast the girls wanted to go to the Camp Ocean.

At 10:30 John had second breakfast. 

The boys chilled with dad while I went to find Marie and Tabitha.

I found them in what was our favorite pool.  There is never a lot of space to swim on cruise ships, but we do like to jump in and cool off.  These salt water pools were just perfect.

I had to go back to the room for something and our cabin steward had already prepped our beds for the evening.

The boys got into some swimming action.  That little waterslide is actually a lot of fun.

Johanna and Katriel are fish, like their siblings, and they left the club long enough to do some swimming before lunch.

Lunch was so much fun.  This ship had so many options.

I did return to Blue Iguana, because, well… 

“Burrito bowl, please, with everything.”

Hello, “everything.”

So crazy yummy.

Look at what Katriel chose for her lunch.

At 2PM we headed to one of the lounges to assemble for a Dr. Seuss parade. 

We played around a bit and then the kids got to pick out signs to carry and instruments to play for our parade from the back of the ship, through the center lobby levels (down the stairs) and up to the theater.

Katriel had Daddy carry hers.

Then we had a Cat in the Hat show.

Our 2:45PM Fro-Yo.  (Not to be confused with the 12:30PM Fro-Yo.)

The girls went back to their clubs so John and I went in search of desserts. 

We went to “Teatime” in the Washington Dining Room

I did NOT care for this… um… raw fishy thingie.

This was more my speed.

Before we knew it it was time to get ready for dinner. 
This was our “Formal Night” as it was the first sea day of the voyage. 

The magician was a lot of fun. 

Oh look.  Katriel ordered mac and cheese for dinner.

My mushroom appetizer.

Someone’s crab cake.

She ate three of the four bowls (she gave one to Marie).

Creme brulee.  Normally this is my favorite dessert.  Carnival did not blow me away with this.  While their tiramisu was good enough to book another cruise for, this stuff was sort of runny.  And with that – I’ll have more of a story for tomorrow.

We changed out of our duds and the little ones went back to Camp Ocean, while others of us played some Scrabble in the semi-open area of the ship. 

About this time Tab told me she wasn’t feeling very well.  She and I went back to the room. 

We passed my favorite sign.