Day Five of the cruise

This day was to Half Moon Cay, Carnival's private island. IT WAS INCREDIBLE. We would stay there for a week if we were allowed.

There's no dock at HMC, so we had to take a tender boat to HMC.

When we got to the island, this is what we saw....

That's PopPop, Brian, MomMom, the kids and Keri in the water. Just to the left of this were two waterslide that dumped the rider into the ocean. Awesome. The hut behind is a private cabana for 25 that came with a personal chef, it's own waterslide, a hot tub and other goodies. We didn't register for it. Later on Keri, Ben and Graham swam over and the people let the boys play on the waterslide.

That's our ship as we were in the water. Doesn't that look fake?

Me and the kids in the crystal clear waters.

The clouds started rolling in, but it only sprinkled rain.

This actually happened! Ben was walking backwards talking to us and I warned him to watch out behind and he literally walked into this sand hole that someone had dug. I couldn't have created the moment if I tried!

HMC was also where Addie found a real star fish, which she held as she got her hair corn-rowed.

It didn't really hurt too much until she got to the top of her scalp and then the tears flowed just a little.

The finished product with her hairstylist. There were 30 total corn rows.

I thought she looked so cute!!

Ben was equally cute at dinner.

A little blurry, but this was waiting for the dance lesson in the Taj Mahal theatre.

We didn't plan on it, but the theatre filled up with people who watched us learn the dance moves to Michael Jackson's Beat It. It was really fun. Addie was such a ham the whole time and as is typical, afterwards people were stopping me to say what a pleasure she is to watch and how I should get her involved in dance/drama/movement.

Ok so before you watch the video below, I need to explain it. Addie's favorite dessert is pumpkin pie made by Muddy. That night when it came time for dessert, the menu had "diet pumpkin pie." Addie decided she'd like to try it, knowing it wouldn't be as good as Muddy's. When the waiter came by to take our order, Addie explained that pumpkin pie is her favorite dessert and that she gets it on her birthday as her treat. The waiter asked her when her birthday is and she said "May 17th." Next thing we know....

We were all so embarrassed. Clearly in the moment, Addie couldn't turn the celebration down, because that would be awkward. So she was a good sport. By this day, the dining room knew Addie well, so all of the other guests were singing to her too. It was really funny. The rest of the night anytime someone did something she didn't like, she'd say "hey don't do that to the birthday girl!" All I can chalk it up to is that the waiters' native language is not English, so he didn't understand. Addie very clearly said when her birthday was, so who knows?!