Cruise 2010 Day 5

**I originally wrote this post on Wednesday afternoon (July 7th)**

Today is the last day of the cruise and we are at sea. Unfortunately there isn’t much on the ship for Nicholas to do. There is tons of stuff for older kids, but we have been really disappointed with the amenities for the under 3 set. So he is pretty bored.

But right now he is playing with his aunts and uncles in the bar with fish tanks. Between the fish and the elevators (which he still insists on calling bupbups), hopefully he’ll be entertained enough not to be too much of a pain. They babysat him yesterday afternoon for a bit and he had a lot of fun, which reminded us of how much better he does with other people when we’re not around. So we figured that if we weren't there they’d get better play time and we’d get some downtime. Win-win. Hopefully it works.

We haven’t really done much of interest since I wrote yesterday afternoon, but there was one funny line we overheard. Joe was walking around with Nicholas (who was in a sweater vest outfit for dinner) and overheard someone say to her husband, “Look, it’s the tuxedo baby!” Nicholas was pretty dashing in his tuxedo on Sunday night, if I do say so.

Here are a couple of pictures from formal night of "the tuxedo baby":

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Speaking of Nicholas’ fame, he is getting a little full of himself. Whenever anyone says “cute,” he turns around, as though it is equivalent to his name. And last night when everyone was clapping after the waiters performed, he looked around with a look that clearly said, “what did I do?” As though it is impossible that anyone could be clapping for anyone or anything other than him. We need to get this kid back to daycare so he can remember that he is not the center of the world.

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And so concludes our family cruise adventure.

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