Cruise to nowhere

Our (permanent) view

To celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary, Paul and I took a cruise with my cousin and her husband (also celebrating their 10th). Ahh.............no kids, no tantrums, no early mornings, no ports. What's that you say? Yeah, thanks to the swine flu, we didn't make it to our (Mexican) ports--bummer! We still had a fabulous time with our own brand of humor, pirate and otherwise! It was so nice to relax and (dare I say) I was actually bored once or twice! (One can only lay out for so many days in a row! Good thing I had a good book bought my my husband and fun people to share my days with!) And happily, the kids did AWESOME with Nana and Papa here to take care of them. According to my parents, they were all perfect angels, can I get me some of that for just a day at least?!?! :) Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances (can you say major flooding/school closing, strep/sad Lauren) they had to diverge from my well-laid out OCD plans, but they did great! They were lucky enough to have our wonderful babysitter come three evenings, and Gigi came over for one day post-flood, pre-strep. All in all, it was definitely worth it---who's up for a repeat in April of 2010???

Paul and I

Karen and Dominique

Sitting outside--my favorite place to be!

Gambling in the casino--Paul's favorite place!