We were all tired by this point! Judah took a really good sleep in! One of the family activities was a build a bear type thing in the kids club. We're not big fans of stuffed animals, but we let the kids do this. Cohen made a frog with a firemans costume and Judah made a bear with a soccer costume. I always love seeing what they choose! Judah is sleeping with his bear in this picture, and they still sleep with their special animals from the cruise every night!
The big boys spent the morning in kids club and Justin got to go on a cool behind the scenes tour of the ship. The boys got their faces painted!
After lunch we spent the afternoon relaxing. We did some swimming and then Judah went to kids club, Cohen wanted to stay with us so we hit up the buffet on the lido deck for an overabundance of desserts and then sat in the sun. My disclaimer is that I didn't eat everything that was sitting in front of me, I wanted to try it all though!
We were in Victoria from 7-11 p.m. such a short and inconvenient time. At least for us with 3 little kids! Someone said that they have to stop in an international port on cruises. Not sure if that's true or not but that would explain our short stop there.
This was a special mom and grandma date night for Judah. We went on a horse drawn carriage ride and then had tea at the Empress. He was such a big boy about it! Then we had a little bit of time to wander around before we had to catch our bus back to the ship. Nothing was open, but I love Victoria so it was still fun to walk around a bit.
Justin took the other boys into town for awhile too. They had a great time wandering around and checking out Victoria with dad!
The thing that I found strangest of all about Victoria (and I actually still can't get over!) is that they never checked our passports or drivers license or anything. We had to scan our ship id card when we left the ship, (we had to do this in each port when we got off the ship and when we got back on), but after we got off the ship we didn't have to go through any kind of customs. Then when we got back on the ship we had to show our ship id card when we went through their little customs gate. Our ship id card, not our passport or drivers license. I don't get it. Maybe because they do a check of some kind on each person that gets on the ship initially. I know that if you have had a DUI you can't get into Canada so does that mean we had a ship full of DUI free people??? I doubt it! Can you just not get off in Canada if you don't "qualify"? When we went to Victoria for our one year anniversary we rode the Clipper and going through customs was awful. We had to go onto the secondary questioning and it just seemed really difficult. And I thought security was getting tighter, all this big talk about needing passports to enter Canada and then we got on a cruise and they want our ship id card. Seriously if anyone has any answers for me I would love to hear them because I can't move on from this!
2 comments:
My only guess is that they have a special arrangment with cruise ships since you guys were only there for a few hours and no one would be staying, that does seem strange though! It also seems unlikely that they would have an immigration building just for the cruise ship since it's not something that comes in super frequently (or so I'm guessing).
That picture of Justin and Cohen is hilarious. They are making the same face. I LOVE IT.
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