Birthday Cruise- the ship

The Carnival Magic is a pretty nice ship... lots of fun things for families to do together that everyone can enjoy. By the last day, I think we'd managed to do everything there was to do (that we were interested in, anyway).

The ship has a game area with miniature golf, giant connect four, pool, air hockey, etc with a large challenge course above the gaming area.

We were a bit worried we wouldn't get to go on the challenge course... we didn't go on the first day at sea and then had the 3 days at various ports. Then it was closed due to high winds on the 2nd to last day. But finally, on the last day, the weather warmed up and the winds died down. And Bella and I got to get up on the course.

At first, Bella was quite nervous (even though this wasn't her first course to go through) and the British guy working the course helped her quite a bit through some of the first few. (While I just enjoyed the accents!) But once she got the hang of it, she was good to go. I was actually hoping she would be worn out by the end (it goes in a circle & there are probably 8 individual challenges as you go round) but she wanted to go again! So we went again. :)

Then on the far end of the upper deck, there is the water slides. There are a couple little kid slides and a couple bigger kid/adult slides. I couldn't talk Bella into the bigger kid slides, even though she was tall enough. I went myself and they were pretty fun but one time was plenty. :) We tried to get into the pools but it was just too chilly! I couldn't handle it. Near the end of the trip we did find a nice hot tub that we could enjoy by ourselves and the kids really loved that. They didn't want to get out and were sad we didn't get to return to one. (The orange slide at the bottom was suppose to be of Mike going around but I wasn't fast enough to catch him!)

When you cruise, you cannot forget about what is waiting for you in your room when you return from your evening meal or evening entertainment... towel animals!!

We actually took a class to learn to make our own towel animals... Bella and I had fun (Jackson just goofed around!). The pictures just below on the top are our 2 things we made in the class. My parents kept all theirs intact and the bottom picture is the kids posing with them before they destroyed them all (with permission). Every day I had to tell Jackson not to mess with their towel animals ... he was really wanting to destroy theirs every day!