Carnival Cruise to No Where Part IV

This was the view from sitting on our bed in our room. The Helicopter made 20+ trips delivering 60 pallets of supplies to us. It took hours to deliver all the supplies even when the helicopter was going straight from the carrier to the ship and back.

The Helicopter coming in with a delivery

Anyone feeling sick?

(these were posted ALL over the ship- it wasn't till a few hours later someone corrected the "D" to a"T")

Carnival Cruise to No Where Part III

The Chihuahua (the little TUG that could) has arrived! (only 8 hours later than expected!)

A member of the Coast Guard walking around the deck planning for the supply drop

Chris said he was trying to make a scared face.... Hmmm...

Carnival Cruise to No Where Part II

On Tuesday the Coast Guard boats arrived

Tuesday the USS Ronald Reagan also arrived- it was so incredible to see it so close! Not many people get this thing live in action so it was so amazing to have it so close that we could see the men on deck and hear their PA system.

The Coast Guard boat, USS Ronald Reagan and the Coast Guard Raft with several members of the Coast Guard who came and actually boarded the ship

Carnival Cruise to No Where

Here are just a few pics of our adventures aboard the Carnival Splendor

Our first rescue Helicopter. They arrived Tuesday and we pretty much had consistent watching eyes till we got to the port.

The Helicopter circled the ship many times to check and see that we were all ok and to survey the ship for the best drop zone for our food delivery

It had potential....

Well... I'm sure many of you at this point have heard about the "Carnival Splendor" cruise ship this week in the news. Wouldn't you know it- that was the cruise we were on? Talk about luck....

In case you HADN'T heard for some STRANGE reason here are a few news stories about our trip that definitely had potential to be great but ended not so great.

MSNBC

NY Times

**Update**

Many people have been wondering what Carnival is doing for the guests for all this. I just wanted to let everyone know that despite the VERY unfortunate events that happened this week all I can say is- Hats off to Carnival and their staff and crew. They did an incredible job making the best of the situation that was handed to us. They refunded in full the cruise, put us up in the Sheraton in San Diego for one night, offered free meals in the hotel AND meal credits in the hotel restaurant, adjusted our flight information home (we were scheduled to fly out Sunday when the cruise was supposed to get back but they adjusted our flights to Friday), they gave us a free cruise and many, MANY apologies. Don't get me wrong it SUCKED pretty bad but I am so impressed by the crew that worked themselves into the ground to do the best they good to make the trip as good as possible.

I am still a little wary of the idea of going on another cruise- the Egberts are pretty much cursed when it comes to cruises- but we will see :)

Separation Anxiety

While we go on vacation Zira will be staying with Chris' parents

and Nico will be staying here

Nico does not do well on her own-

she is VERY dependent on the little dilly so to practice being on her own

I took her and Zira together yesterday for a "practice run" at the "Lodge"

After much coaxing I was told Nico ended up doing OK and Zira was fine

which was kind of expected.

The "Lodge" called me this afternoon politely recommending that maybe

Nico come on her own tomorrow to give it another try on her own.

I am feeling some serious anxiety leaving my child on her own in a strange place-

we have never left Nico and so the thought of leaving her for 8 days

gives me serious anxiety.

I quickly realized that I may be the one with separation anxiety.

9 days

Oh, I've missed you.

See you soon.......