Day 2 - At Sea

We started the day with a lovely buffet breakfast. Every meal was a buffet (in fact it was 24 hour dining), and there were 2 different restaurants to choose from that were included in the price of the cruise. Breakfast was lovely with a wide variety of fruits, freshly baked pastries (croissants were the boys favourites - especially Alex), lots of hot food, and my favourite was the made to order omelette - yum!We awoke on Wednesday morning to gorgeous blue Mediterranean sea all around as far as we could see. Day 2 didn't have a port, as we had departed Palma the night before and were on our way to arriving in Tunisia on Thursday. We had lots of fun exploring the ship (which was quite enormous) There were lots of fun activities.Alex had a go at learning Trapeze, which was lots of fun for him and lots of fun for us to watch. Unfortunately the professional performances were too late for the boys to stay up and watch, but it was great that there was an opportunity to have a go. Brock didn't want to have a go (a little too nervous I think). The kids club had a disco with games and dancing that I took the boys both to. Alex had lots of fun dancing but again Brock just wanted to watch.

Day 1 - Palma

On Tuesday 6 May we left London from Gatwick to fly to Palma. We had to get up ridiculously early to catch a cab to the airport. The boys were not used to getting up so early, and it was pitch black outside. Zander (aged 6) started crying in the cab, he was pretty disturbed by leaving in the early hours of the morning. The Rocket (aged 3) was just quite silent during the trip to the airport. It was quite beautiful driving to the airport as the sun was just beginning to rise on the outskirts of London. They both perked up when we arrived at the airport, and after a bit of queuing we had checked in our bags and had our boarding passes, we just had to wait until our flight was called. The flight to Palma was about 3 hours, which is quite a short trip for us. The boys had managed the 24 hour flight from Sydney to London quite well just a few months earlier, and the 3 hours to Palma was a nice easy flight. Some of the english kids on the flight seemed to find it quite difficult and there was quite a lot of crying and screaming from the seats around us. I was very proud of my two for handling it so well.
Mallorca was much drier than we had expected, especially given that it was Spring.

After we arrived and collected our bags at Palma we were directed to buses that then took us to where our ship was docked.
The boys were keen to get straight into the water, and spent some time in the kiddies pool near the ship's kids club.
The Rocket was very excited by the toys at the kids club, especially the little car which was the same as one he had before we moved to England.
This is a view from the ship of Gaudi's Cathedral in Palma.
The boys were also very excited by the giant chess set on one of the decks of the ship.

Introduction

This time last year we were cruising around the Mediterranean. I have been thinking for a long time that it would be lovely to have a record of that time for our children to remember the trip, and also for our friends and family. So, given that today is the anniversary of our day in Corsica, I am going to embark on a journey to try and tell the story of our trip through the Mediterranean.