Adventures of Kevin, Cyndi, Kaitlyn and Kenzie: Vacation Part 4- Edinburgh, Fun Day at Sea, Stavanger, Fun Day at Sea, and Le Havre

Edinburgh

One of the streets of Edinburgh

Mary Queen of Scots’ bath house

Holyrood Palace

Edinburgh Castle

View of Edinburgh from the Castle

Scotland’s Crown jewels are kept here as well as the Stone of Destiny which Scottish Kings and Queens have used as their coronation seat for centuries.

Here’s Kaitlyn in the Palace at Edinburgh Castle.

The Chapel within Edinburgh Castle…

The Royal Mile… a mile of shops leading up the hill to Edinburgh Castle…

Watching tartan being woven…

Kaitlyn found a stuffed Nessie in one of the souvenir shops and fell in love.

Waiting to catch a tender back to the ship…

The Legend offshore and one of the lifeboats waiting to tender passengers back to her.

Kaitlyn and Nessie on one of the Legend’s lifeboats heading back to the ship. Hopefully the only time we are ever in a lifeboat Smile

Snack time on Lido!

Kaitlyn’s second casual photo…

Camp Carnival’s face painting skills put me to shame!

Fun Day at Sea

More face art!

After 5 cruises we FINALLY got a towel monkey!!!

Second elegant night family photo…

Pirate Kaitlyn. She had so much fun at Camp carnival this cruise. The staff was amazing as usual. One of the ladies actually remembered us from the Pride nearly two years ago!

Stavanger, Norway

Oh look, the story of our vacation… RAIN!!!

We took the Stavanger countryside tour. First stop was this huge cave that had been turned into a restaurant/ conference area. While we were there we got to sample the local pancakes, which are the same consistency as ours, just a little sweeter and are eaten with jam rather than syrup. So good!

I thought they were creepy, but Kaitlyn wanted a picture with them…

We also visited a candle factory and their store.

Pretty cool inside the store. It’s built right up against the mountain.

Next stop… the scenic overlooks of the fjords. Now picture all the postcards and photos you’ve ever seen. The clear blue skies, sparkling blue water, and green trees… got that image? Good! Cause that’s the only way you are going to see it… This is what we saw…

And the forecast was 10% chance of rain…

As you can tell, Kaitlyn is not thrilled we made her get off the bus in the rain!

Old Stavanger…

On the pier overlooking Stavanger

After a chilly day out in the rain it was nice to sip a cup of hot chocolate on our balcony and look at the view of the city!

Views of Stavanger from the Lido deck.

Oh look, the story of our cruise… 15 minutes from departure and the sun starts to come out.

And as we are sailing away… the sun is completely out!

One of Kaitlyn’s Camp Carnival activities.

Fun Day at Sea

We heard there was a surprise on Lido deck and when we got there we found that all the stateroom stewards had been very busy last night! Every deck chair, the ground, the stage, and all around the pool had been overrun by…

Needless to say, Kaitlyn LOVED it. She kept running around to look at all of them and she was a little sad when I explained that she couldn’t take a picture with all of them! So here she is with a few of her chosen favorites!

Kaitlyn at the VIFP (Very Important Fun Person) Party. This cruise she actually had enough days cruised to get her own invitation rather than just tagging along with us.

Got to love free alcoholic beverages!

What did I tell you all? Sea Days= gorgeous, Port Days= not so much

Sunset!

After we told our amazing stateroom steward Arnold how much Kaitlyn loved all the towel animals this morning, not only did he make the usual one for our bed…