My Family

This year my parents decided to celebrate my mom's fiftieth Birthday (yes, I know she doesn't look that old) with an Alaskan Cruise. My parents and I flew out the day after school officially let out (although I skipped the last two days). We met my brother and his wife that day in Seattle, and spent some time just seeing the city. It was really cool for me, because I was trying to get used to the big city atmosphere before my trip to NYC. We tried to drive into the city, and it was a mess, but once we finally got rid of the car and started walking everywhere, it was really fun. We only stayed there one night, and then we headed down to the dock to meet with our Cruise ship, and meet up with my sister, her husband, and my nephew. We finally got on bored the ship after a while and found our way to our staterooms. I got one to myself, because everyone else wanted to stay with their spouses for some strange reason. And then the cruise actually began.

And instead of telling every nitty gritty detail I'll throw that in my journal and just tell you the fun stories.

Fun story number 1:
One of my favorite things about this cruise was how popular I was because I hung out so much with my sister, her husband, and especially her baby. All the crew and the other guests all loved my nephew. One of the funny things was how often people would ask me if he was my baby. Kinda awkward, but that's just when you smile and say that he's my nephew and not my son.

Fun Story Number 2:
On the first day of a cruise you always have a drill where you learn what to do. Your fire alarm goes off then you grab your life jacket head on up to your muster station, then out on deck to where your life boat would be. Well one morning somewhere in the middle of the cruise I woke up late, got up and took a shower. Well it turns out that my water might have been a little warm, because when I got out of the shower the fire alarm was going off. I didn't realize that it was the steam, I actually thought the ship was going down, so I got dressed in record time, and was pulling out my life jacket when someone knocked on my door, and in came the room cleaning guy. He looked at me and realized that it must not have been me smoking, because I didn't look guilty at all, more like terrified, plus there was the life jacket in my hand. He unplugged my fire alarm and told me to make sure next time I didn't use as much warm water in my shower...boy did I feel stupid.

All in all it was a great trip. I spent most my time with my sister and her family, and it was definitely one of the greatest points. I love all my family, but my sister and I just get along probably best out of all of us siblings. The scenery and the weather were both amazing as well. Usually it's supposed to rain in Alaska (or snow), but it was sunny and around 70-80 degrees the whole trip. And Alaskan scenery is amazing.

Definitely a great experience.