Best Family Vacation EVER!

So this past week my parents and brother came on the ship and visited.  We had an amazing time! 

The week started off pretty great, last Sunday I got to meet up with my friend Nate in New York, he just moved there and is a part of the awesome comedy duo Team Submarine (their website is www.teamsubmarine.net , do yourself a favor and check it out.) 

Then later that day my family came on.  I was able to get my parents a really nice room, with a balcony and everything, and the four of us hung out in their room alot during the week, just reading, chatting, napping, and sometimes ordering room service, which I never get sick of.  I feel so lucky that my family can spend so much time in one room together relaxing and enjoying each other's company, especially since most of us  have a tendency to crack some pretty bad jokes.  Anyhoos, my brother actually stayed in my room every night except this one night when we had been out drinking and then went to the 24-hour diner on the ship. I proceeded to eat, feel sick, go to my room and pass out.  I guess Jonah tried to get into the room by knocking and then calling me several times, but he ended up spending the night with the 'rents (as TEEN magazine called them when I used to be a subscriber.)

We went out to lots of family dinners and then at night Jonah and I would hang out with all of the fabulous people I've met on the ship, dancers, Second City peeps, youth counselors, etc.  Jonah got along great with everyone, I think he's maybe the best socializer I've ever met. You can drop him off in a room of strangers, and he'll leave a couple hours later with tons of new friends.

Anyhoosies, my family loved the shows, both ours and the Jean Ann Ryan dance shows, and were very impressed with the cruise all around.  We made fun of the Norwegian "Freestyle Cruising" stuff alot, (like they really try to emphasize how "freestyle" everything is- for example, they say the Monday night "is formal night, so you can dress up... or not!", but just imagine them talking about every single aspect of the ship like that).

Today we got brunch with my cousin Jed, who is so awesome. So it was a great week!  And now we only have 3 weeks left, which is totally insane!

Julie and Ariana visit!

Julie and Ariana came on the ship for a week! This was actually the week before last week, but it took me a whole week after they visited to post about it, since I was still recovering from all of the eating and sleeping we did. Julie and Ariana are both great friends from college, and we were all in Bloomers (all-female sketch comedy and musical parody troupe at the University of Pennsylvania) together. They are fantastic, Ariana is a movie producer/sassy entertainment person, and Julie is a published author! In fact, her first book comes out this month! It's called HOT MESS - pick it up if you have a chance. I don't believe the title is actually in caps, but I wanted to emphasize it.

Anyhoos, we saw a little bit of Bermuda while they were here, it was actually our first week going there. We walked around the streets of Hamilton, and one day we went to the gorgeous Horseshoe Bay. Most of our time, though, was spend eating for free and sleeping in our inside cabin. It was very cozy with the 3 of us in there, I slept on a fold-out bunk bed, and that was great because I was able to avoid a lot of farting going on below me. Also, the food on the ship just got much better, thanks to this new Norwegian 2.0 thing, and boy did we take advantage of it. I can't fit into any of my clothes, but it was worth it.

It was a fantastic week, I can't remember the last time I had so much fun!