Cruisin' into 2013!

We’re back from a wonderful New Year’s family Cruise. We spent 7 nights aboard Holland America’s EURODAM leaving from Fort Lauderdale. For those of you who are interested, I set up a day-by-day recap of the triphere (with LOTS MORE PICS), but below is a quick summary.

Our trip, by the numbers:

2,013; the year we rang in sailing over the Caribbean

2,104 Guests aboard the Eurodam

1,850 Nautical miles travelled

925 crew members aboard the Eurodam

600 B.C.; Date the Mayan ruins we visited in Costa Maya were built

420 cruise ship meals consumed by our family (if you don’t count snacks, which we don’t)

80^o F; The coolest day at Half Moon Cay

67 years old (oldest member of our group)

50 (at least) Stingrays seen at Stingray City

25 - 30 bottles of wine drank

23.9 knots; maximum speed

20 people (5 first-time cruisers) in our group

8.5 months old (youngest member of our group)

8 staterooms

7 nights at sea

5 legs of plane flights to reach the ship from California and back

4 foreign countries (Bahamas, Grand Cayman, Honduras, Mexico)

2 seconds that I felt bad for not ever working out

1 trooper of a baby

1 AMAZING family

A million memories