The Chill At Queen Mary

The day after Christmas, my family went to the Queen Mary. They're doing a special winter thing, where you can go sledding, ice skating and look at carved ice. Seemed pretty cool.

 It was so cold inside this room, they gave everyone snow jackets to wear. Everything was carved out of ice, and some of it was even colored. It was pretty neat.

 You could even slide down the ice version of the Queen Mary.

 I bought this yummy dessert for my Mom, but then she just gave it to the kids to share =/

 Katie sure liked it!

 The sleds were fun. We didn't know everything was sold separately. We thought we would be able to do everything, but turns out we only paid to go inside the ice room. We had to pay extra for the kids to go sledding, and we didn't even bother with the ice skating, because that would have been even more money. The kids really enjoyed the sleds though, they went on and on, using all their turns up. (They were given wristbands that let them go on a certain number of times)

It was pretty fun there, I just wish it wasn't so expensive to do the activities offered. The kids had a great time though, and that's what matters!

Christmas Morning On The Queen Mary

When Katie woke up in the morning, she opened her presents from David and I. We had a nice relaxing morning with my Mom, who came over to watch Katie open presents.

 Then we headed over to Long Beach to have brunch on the Queen Mary with my family.

They had this Santa on the ship so the kids could take a picture with him.

 Katie was very grown up picking out her own food at the buffet.

 And fancy with her apple juice in a champagne glass.

 I bought Mary a personalized Disney World shirt for their trip coming up.

The girls started getting restless waiting for everyone to finish eating and opening a few presents from the people they don't live with. They started dancing around and having their own fun.

When everyone was finished, we let the kids run around the ship and explore.

 They found what they called Hopscotch and had a good time :p

 On the way home, Mary wanted to stop by the graves to decorate them for Christmas.

My kid got a little silly and started running around with the rake, laughing and not willing to share with the other girls. She's a nut. The graves turned out pretty though. I wish my Dad could have met my baby girl. He would have loved her. She's so precious, even when she's stealing rakes. I just love her so much!

Merry Christmas!

Queen Mary With Desiree & Kids

So apparently my Mother's Day dinner on the Queen Mary was a hit! So much in fact, that my Aunt wanted to take her daughter to eat there too while she was down visiting. This time we chose to do the buffet thing, since it's half the price and there were a lot of people going. It was a Champagne Brunch, but of course, my family turned down the champagne.

After lunch, we walked around the Queen Mary so Desiree could look around and so the kids could get some energy out before getting back in the car.

Mother's Day on the Queen Mary

I try to make Mother's Day at least a little cool for my Mom, since she's so awesome to me and all. But I do find it hard to come up with cool things to do, or at least fun things to do. It seems like we've done all there is to do in California, and my budget doesn't exactly allow me to travel the world. But then I thought, hey! She's always wanted to go on the Queen Mary. That leads me to the QueenMary.com. I found out we can do dinner on the Queen Mary. They had a few options to choose from. Did I want to pay less and do a buffet, or pay more and have a fancy dinner for Mother's Day? I chose Sir Winston's. I told Mary about it to see if she wanted to tag along too, since Desiree's over in New Mexico for Mother's Day.

When we got there we walked around a bit, looking for the right restaurant, and of course took some photos. I was just happy to still fit into a dress I bought when I was 17. Go me!

There were 2 types of salads we could choose from, for our first course. Obviously, we picked the wrong one, haha. The other table had one that looked much....fuller? More ingredients? More...better? lol. We also got a French Onion Apple Tart soup (or something like that) but I forgot to take a picture of it. I gave mine to Katie, and she actually ate some of it, like the big bread part that was floating on top. haha.

They gave these to us to wash down the salad, before the main course came. The nice part? They gave Katie her own, even though technically she just shared everything else with me, because she's little and in no way going to eat 90% of this food.

Blake and I ordered this. I believe it's tri-tip. Can't remember now. It came with a purple potato that weirded us all out, to the point where each of us HAD to try a bite, just to see.

My Mom and Mary ordered the vegetarian dish.

Chocolate breaded pudding I think, with a teaspoon of mocha ice cream. This was choice #1

And a fruit dessert was choice #2. Of course my Mom and Mary picked this one :p

Katie, on the other hand, was very glad I picked the chocolate one as my dessert. Yum!

Usually restaurants will give you mints with you bill. This place gave us these. They were delicious!

Another great part of the day, there were only 1 or 2 other families in there. So it was nice and quiet too. Pretty fancy, pretty fun, pretty cool to mark something off my Mom's bucket list.

 

Happy Mother's Day Mom! Thanks for everything you do for us! I hope you had a good day! I sure enjoyed it!