Day 4 was a pretty awesome day. It was the day we went to the private island owned by the cruise line: Half Moon Cay. I think we either liked this best or it was tied with Turks and Caicos.
This was a later day for Port... we arrived to the island around 9am and didn't have to be back on the boat until 4:30pm. In the morning, we ordered some coffee to the room once goober woke up and had some breakfast and tried to get goober down for a morning nap while we alternated going to running track/gym. I got a half hour workout in but when I got back to the room, Logan woke up from a 30 min nap and wouldn't go back down. The crankies didn't go away from then! Even our balcony picture with half moon cay in the background is without smiles (this was pre-nap)!
But we headed to the island with our cranky baby... hoping some swimming will make him happy.
The boat was anchored in the water and we took smaller boats in the the island. This is when we just got to the beach and found ourselves a spot nice and close to the pirate ship (aka bar!).
While Aleksy took the goobs in the water, I got us these fun drinks!! Miami Vices in souvenir cups! All for the bargain price of $25 american dollars (insert sarcasm emoticon here). We swam for a bit then decided to get Logan his bottle and get him down for a nap!
And nap did he ever... 2.5 hours to be precise. Perhaps this is why we liked this stop best? Here's the goober sleeping in his stroller in the shopping area. Where.. I found my vacation hat! Yay! And it was an air conditioned store too, which was great so Logan could cool off. It was a scorcher of a day so he slept with just a diaper.
When we first got to the island, everyone stopped to get a picture with this sign... but with Logan in his 30 minute morning nap state, we decided to go back later when the crowd died down. Funny.. this is the exact look for Logan in the picture they took of him to identify him for the cruise! Just sleeping away the bahamas.
A picture of just the 2 of us? It must be nap time! This was the ost amazing, still watered beach and it was so cool tat the view was turquoise waters and our cruise ship!
And those canapy shelters are sauna hot! The shades a good idea, but they're too hot to sit under...
Lunch on the island was friggin amazing. It was Carribean style so some jerk chicken and spiced rice. So so good! Food is such a good time.
While Aleksy was getting our food and Logan was sleeping, I also met one of the servers from Indonesia who was taking in the cuteness of Logan and told me about how she wanted to start a family but couldn't because she spends 9 months a year on the cruise ship! So crazy how many staff have babies back at their homes.
After lunch Logan continued to nap, so we took turns going swimming in the ocean. One of us hung out here in the shade with Logan while the other went down to the water!
We actually were ready for Logan to wake up since we had walked, shopped, eaten, swam, lounged and had already consumed the maximum amount of drinks allowed for responsible parenting!
Babies awake! And so happy and energized! We wanted to check out the slides area that we had eyed up while he was asleep and found this little hidden slide beside the bigger one. Logan sized. There was the sweetest little girl playing on this slide by herself (we recognized her from the Dr. Suess activity!) and she let Logan take turns with her and her Mom suggested a family slide photo... don't mind if we do!
Logan did lots of sliding on the slides and this beach was so perfect for him... all this flat sand to crawl on and gentle waves.
We had brought some back up baby food, which was needed this day because someone slept through lunch. Good thing we're always over-prepared because we actually ended up staying pretty late on this island (about 4). We thought we'd only be out for a few hours and we made it the full, awesome day!
We still hit the splash pad/water slide area on the boat when we got back just before supper. It was great timing too since there were no lines for the water slides... how do you say no to that? Logan was still rested from his nap and it wasn't quite supper time (it was about 5) so we took advantage of time!
Then we got back to our room after and got pretty for supper. You'd think that we dressed up for the nice restaurant but nope... just fancy for the buffet! So much easier with the baby. Before supper, we went over to the comedy club where there's lots of room for Logan to crawl around. This was in that room.
It was a convenient location too: our side of the boat and the nearest bar was just outside here.
This was also the floor with the casino so on one side of the boat you could smell smoke when walking by... so weird to allow smoking in the closed in part when there's so many areas open to the outside.
Just burning some energy before supper.
Dessert time! Well, first dessert for us.. we hit up the buffet for more later on when goober was in bed. We worked out twice on this vacation... we earned bottomless dessert. I preferred the crumble desserts... they always seemed to taste the best!
And all finished supper and back to the room for the baby's nudey oats and shower! But first... towel art. Logan became uninterested in the towel art toward the end and wasn't breaking them apart anymore! Take a lot to impress this little cruiser.
Having a little family time before Logan goes to bed. Just some sweet snuggles from the baby.
And once the baby was down, we played a little cards (with our FREE card deck from the guest services desk!) and had a couple drinks. We finished up the 2nd of the bottles of wine we brought this night! It made it easier for drinks on the balcony that we could just bring our own wine!
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