Leaving, on a jet plane.

 

(About twenty minutes into the flight. New headphones on. Video selected. Still not happy!)

After about 6 long months of waiting, the time finally came for vacation. Twelve days of fun, in warm weather, just us. We left out of Portland and the toughest part of the trip was flying from Portland to Dallas, TX and then to Tampa, FL. That's a long flight with a munchkin. It's about 6 hours too long to be exact.

But, we made it. We settled into a hotel in Tampa for night number one, excited to board a ship for five days and head to the Caribbean for our first vacation as a family.

(I call this Jackson's JP face. Every photo of JP that I have seen as a kid, has this expression.)

We were all pretty beat from our long journey, so we stayed close to the hotel, and counted down the hours until boarding the next day. Alas, we made it, and boarded sometime that next afternoon.

 (View of Tampa, FL from the middle deck of the ship)