My..ami

A couple weeks ago we took Kee on his first cruise.  It was a 4-night Bahaman cruise and great fun.  On the way there though we had a bit of a mis-communication with Keegan.  The boat left out of Miami. 

Keegan: "What city are we in?"
Me: "Miami"
Keegan: "Is Your-ami in Florida?"
Lyle: "No the name of the city is Mi-ami."
Keegan: "No daddy you are wrong is it Mommy's-ami."
Me: "Nope the city's name is Miami, even if you say it, it is Miami."
Keegan: "but where is Your-ami?"

He finally got the hang it but it took awhile.  You can see all of the pictures for the trip here.

I got dreadfully seasick the first day at sea; weird because that's never happened to me before.  But by the second day I was better.  The first day we spent at Key West.  We went on a trolley tour, went to the Sunken Ship Museum, and went on a tour of their Aquarium.  The Trolley tour was nifty, the Sunken Ship Museum pretty lame (except for the walk up to the watch tower), and the Aquarium was small but neat since we got to watch them feed the sting rays and sharks and then got to pet a baby shark.  Did you know shark's feel like sandpaper?

 

Keegan in Front of the Sunken Ship Museum Leaning on a Cannon

 

Spongehead Keegan outside of the Key West Aquarium

The first night on the cruise ship we found the Aquanauts kid's area and signed Keegan up for the kid's program.  We felt a little guilty leaving him there but he had a great time.  It was a great program.  He got to play with other kids his age for a couple hours and do stuff he thought was fun, while Lyle and I got to go sit in the lounge and listen to musicians and relax.  The second night was pirate night.  The kids got to dress up as pirates and parade across the stage for the main show, then they went on a scavenger hunt throughout the ship.  Below is a picture of our little pirate...

The second day we went to Nassau, this was our big dolphin excursion.  Swimming with the dolphins was spectacular.  We did it at Blue Lagoon Island and they did an absolutely fantastic job.  It was a once in a lifetime type of thing (of course, we will probably try to do it again sometime because we had so much fun).  I have to scan in the dolphin pics later, but below are some pics of our boat ride to the island.

Coming back from Blue Lagoon Island.

After that we went to Senor Frogs and had dinner/partied.  Keegan danced like crazy in the dancing area and there were funny hats for all.

Lyle with the silly hat.

Outside of Senior Frogs

The next day was Coco Cay.  There we did a glass bottom boat tour (which was kind of lame and long) and had a lot of fun playing in the ocean and on the beach.

The beautiful beach.

 

Looking at a peppercorn snail on the glass bottom boat.

The next day we were back in Miami and we took a Fanboat through the everglades.  We saw lots of alligators and had a great time zooming through the Everglades on that fanboat...those things can really whip across the water.  Definitely something fun to do if you can.

 One of the many Alligators we saw

Keegan and I sitting on a fan boat.

Overall it was a fun trip and it was very nice to hang out in some weather that was in the 70's and sunny.  We have really been missing going to the beach over the winter and can't wait until it warms up.  The highlights were probably the fanboat tour and the dolphin excursion.  Lots of fun was had by all :-)

The other funny thing Keegan kept asking about were tsunamis, he wanted to know all about those.  Except he kept saying Salami.  At one point he asked someone if the island ever got hit by giant salamis...  It was very hard to not start laughing at him...