Christmas on a cruise ship...

It's New Years Eve. We've been on a cruise ship for the past 7 days, getting back to the trailer late last night after dropping Kath and Dave off at the airport. Seeing the kids after 3 months was wonderful. You really don't know how much you miss the constant nattering between them until it's not there .... after we dropped them off we missed them even more.

The cruise ship was pretty nice.
- Total number of passengers: 2786.
- Number of kids: 500.
- Number of people with more disposable income than me: 2782.
- Our "incidental" tab for the week: $1076.00.
- Fuel used on the ship: 65,000 gallons/day. 23.3 gallons/day/person.
- Guilt I felt for being on this floating example of Western excess: enormous.
- Guilt I felt for reading a book in 80 degree heat by a pool on Christmas Day: none.

It was pretty surreal to spend the holidays on a cruise ship. We visited Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan and Cabo San Lucas, and spent 3 full days at sea (only one of which was rough - 12 foot swells). The food was good, the accommodations were great, and the weather was fantastic (except for the above mentioned 12-foot-swell-with-gale-force-winds on the last full day).

We got on the boat at 1pm on Saturday the 23rd, and got off at 8:45am on Saturday the 30th. We had seven dinners and six breakfasts with our kids. We sat by the pool with them for about 30 hours. It was worth every penny....

PS: Photos on Flickr