Taryn's Mad Hatter Adventures

Today was our first sea day.  I must have been excited because I was awake at 6:15 a.m.!  Here’s the Cruise Compass for today:

Once the kids woke up, we headed to the Windjammer for the buffet breakfast.  Imagine my delight to see FRIED RICE on the buffet!

And it was DELICIOUS!  I would have this same thing every single morning (except when it was shrimp fried rice).

Kinsey had her normal doughnut:

After breakfast, we headed straight for the pool deck.  The weather was perfect!  Sunny and warm.  Apparently we were finished eating by 8:51 a.m.!

There were tons of open chairs available.  There are always horror stories about people saving rows of chairs from the crack of dawn, and not actually sitting in them.  I didn’t experience this at all on this cruise!  I was always able to find a chair with no problem.

My bathing beauties!  Around 11:30 a.m. the girls came to me with some new found friends, and wanted to go try the rock climbing wall.  We headed to the back of the ship, and it was currently closed because it was too wet.

We kept checking back and finally they were open with a semi-long line already!

These are the special shoes they have you wear:

We did have our own socks on with them.

My oldest daughter went first, and she was a champ!

My daughter is on the left in the white.  The dad next to me was super excited for his daughter who was next to mine!

I want to mention.  It was HOT this day!  Almost too hot to be comfortable doing this.  My youngest daughter was a bit grumpy once it got to be her turn.

We headed to lunch at the Windjammer.

They had a very good selection and everyone found something they liked.

We stayed at the pool until about 2:30 p.m., and by then we had enough of the hot sun.  We headed back to the cabin to relax and shower before dinner.