Pete and Tanner: Carnival Cruise Part III {October12, 2010}

Brace yourself. It's okay, you can come back if you just don't have time right now.

This post just HAD to be a long one though.

Oh and SO good ; )

We all met for breakfast in the formal dining room before we split for our day on the island. The three of us went with Connie for a ferry ride and day at the beach at the Blue Lagoon. Tracy, Allie and her parents went snorkeling.
Dad thought about leaving the boat.
He shocks us all after breakfast when he said he was going to get off and explore. Not 10 minutes later I passed him getting back off the elevator. He actually got to the gangway, just off the boat and turned around when he saw how far it was just to get a cab (he can't be on his feet that long.) So I guess he technically got to see the island! HA!

The view was probably better from his reading spot in the lounge though.

Suited him just fine, but MAN was that hysterical!

Waiting for our ferry ride : )

Reagan was so excited to ride on a little boat.

She always points out things that are the same in big and little- "biiiih boah, liddah boah!" (boat)

At dinner, it's "bih spooh, liddah spooh" "bih for, liddah for" (fork) and "bih tuh, liddah tuh"

That last one was cup. She still can't say her K's and hard C's, so they sound like T's.

So now when she tries to tell me something I have to de-code... 'switch the t with a k, unless it is a t, and account for the second half of the word missing more than likely... no problem...?!'

I usually do know exactly what she's saying, and she's not that far off- it's just really cute : )

Can't you just hear it? "OOOH! WOWEEEEE!"

I don't think I need to say it-

Here either-

We debated on making this trip to the Blue Lagoon. It was kind of expensive, but I REALLY wanted pictures on this beach. We came here years ago and it was so beautiful, I just had my heart set on Reagan's 2 year portrait taken in her little while Polo by the water.
I looked at it as paying a 'session fee' with a free photographer ; )

This is one of my favorites.

It really looks like her little dainty self.

We got lunch with our trip, and surprisingly it was a really good chicken sandwich. We sat at the big teal picnic tables and Reagan threw food to all the seagulls. There must have been 25 birds running everywhere, and came right up to you to get food. Chasing them was fun too!

Oh! Junior got pooped on!

HA!

I told you the birds were everywhere! It wasn't as good as Teddie's though.

It would be hard to top that video...!

My perfect angel- I know every Mom says that, but she really was sent from heaven, just for us,

and I'm not just saying that. : )

The day we were there, only one other ship was at the pier. So the only people on the island were the people that rode on the ferry with us. The main beach (cove actually) had blow up things floating in the water and rental stands, gift shop, just not picturesque. We walked over the hill, no one was around, and this perfect little beach was waiting for us to play- with a beautiful view of the ocean unlike the cove side.

WOW.

I would love to live there.

This could have been the perfect portrait, if we could only get her eyes off the ground...

Baby coconuts!

One of the ladies that worked there had to inform me of this, and Reagan was all about the bih one and liddah one. Sometimes it was the Mommy and the baby. The little one was the size of a quarter!

I have since printed a 12x36 panoramic portrait of this and my Mom has it hung in her dining room-

it is SO pretty, and with the perfect frame.
: ) Her girls!

Connie LOVED it... All she wanted to do was read in a hammock... Reagan let her I promise!

We have a little Noah's Ark Little People set at home, with a Mommy and Daddy of all different animals. She always has the animals kiss, since she likes it when her Mommy and Daddy do. Aaaaahw!

So first thing she did with these enormous chess pieces?

KISS! (we actually call it a 'tiss')

She makes the most 'melt me' tissing noise too.

My cup runneth over.