on ship

Royal Carribean knows how to keep you entertained. I've been saying that our kids were the perfect age for a cruise, young enough to love the kid's club, but old enough to go to the shows. We saw a kid-friendly comedian, an acapella group, an aerial show in the nine story atrium, a Broadway review, and a orchestra rock show (hard to describe but they played a version of uptown funk that got everyone out of their seats dancing - Aiden was obsessed!)

Our servers at dinner worked so hard but found the time to charm the boys with so many table tricks. They'd come over with a challenge like can you transfer this empty can from one mug to the other (answer blow next to it and it will jump out of one mug and flip into the next, if you're lucky), or pick up this glass with this straw (answer: bend the straw and it will grab the side of the glass - see below) or balance the forks on the S&P shakers using toothpicks or watch as these toothpicks expand into a star with a drop of water.

The boys of course liked the towel animals.  The lobster after eating at lobster night was a nice touch ;)

The officer vs guest pool volleyball was fun to watch.  The officers dominated beating every team in a row and then even beating all eight teams on the opposing side at the same time!

The Adventure Ocean kid's club kept the kids happy with gagaball games, crafts, and even a big stash of imaginext (which makes these boys feel right at home).  At the end of the week the kids were invited to "slime their favorite teacher" which they thought was hilarious.

The lobby had a daily trivia puzzle sheet that was a nice time filler. The boys joined into the dancing during the Sail Away party straight from the pool. Once we saw the aerialists practicing randomly as we walked by the Centrum on the seventh floor.  We took advantage of the all day, every day soft serve machine on the pool deck pretty often.