After 12 nights on a boat, you get to know a lot of people-
We got a lot of "We will miss baby Ryan!!" ha

(There is nothing worse than getting off the ship and seeing the people waiting to get on the ship 
because their cruise starts that day! I hate it!)

The day we got off it just happened to be my darling mother-in-law's birthday!

Aww Happy Birthday!!!
She is the prettiest (enter her age) year old I know!

Her and I were in heaven finding the cutest candy stores.

I love Spain. So pretty.

We explored the city for the day, and Ryan's favorite part was watching the birds.

He would get so excited when they would come close to him.

It was the cutest thing.

We stayed at a pretty cool hotel for 2 nights!

The next day was my father-in-law's birthday! Awww Happy Birthday!!!

How fun that they are a day apart huh!?

We had a tour guide the second day and he took us up to Montserrat. It was incredible.

The views were unbelievable!

After lots more touring of the beautiful city,

we ended the trip with a bang when we ate at the most incredible restaurant with really good bruschetta.

A huge thank you to these two for making it a dream vacation.

I am so lucky to call them second parents.

Seriously the best cutest in-laws in the world.

I have received many emails with specific questions so hopefully this helps! PLEASE please email me if I missed something I would be happy to help!

1. Get a bassinet! (As seen in above picture) We tried to get one on the way out to Europe and there just happened to be 12 infants on the plane and so we couldn't get one! (even showing up 3 hours early for our plane- still couldn't get one)

Ryan slept like a rock in there.

2. We cruised on Norwegian Cruise line! and did the 12 night Mediterranean from Venice to Barcelona. My in-laws have tried out most cruise lines and this was our first time trying Norwegian. Loved loved loved it! I would totally recommend it.

3. Our backpack carrier was the best thing ever purchased. 

You can use it until they are like 40 pounds or something so it lasts forever!

SO glad we decided not to!

But seriously.

A. Take the stairs. We were on floor 10 and never took the elevator. Only to carry up our suitcases.

Some mornings we could go run 5 miles on a treadmill if we were at sea or we ported later but most of our tours left at 8 AM (or earlier) so Aaron and I brought resistance bands and would do abs together or arms the days that we didn't have time to go to the gym before our tour.

C. Go dance at night. Burns lots of calories and we had a blast.
D. If you are craving sugar, go get some fruit! Cruise ships have the freshest fruit (usually) and it's an endless supply!! 

E. Choose one meal to splurge on instead of making every meal a crazy 1000 calories.

I'm not a huge breakfast lover (Don't get me wrong I NEVER EVER skip it, I would just rather have cereal than eggs and bacon) So each morning I just had a bowl of cereal and fruit, even though there is 200 items to choose from on a cruise ship. I would rather eat a pizza for dinner then 4 waffles for breakfast. Make sense?

6. Highlights- There were lots of highlights, but if I had to choose one-
If you ever have the chance to do the Gondola in Venice, DO IT.

And my last really educated tip:)- If you do go to Europe get a baguette or two, and eat lots of gelato and pizza.

Somehow America just hasn't quite caught on to those three things like Europeans have:)

Until next time Beautiful Europe! xoxo

 France is GORGEOUS.

Our tour guide took us all over and we spent the day in Marseille.

It seriously doesn't need words, it's just that pretty.

Lets now talk about how pretty Italy is!?

And finally, let's talk about how much gelato we ate that day.
Ok, lets not talk about it, I almost get a sugar rush headache thinking about it ha.
But seriously, we stopped at 3 different gelato places on ONE STREET.
That's a lot of ice cream.
Hey, when in Italy- do it right!
Loved you Florence.
Next stop.. Beautiful FRANCE!

As we were getting ready to head to dinner for the night, Mr. Ryan got his first battle wounds.

Poor baby.

I knew it was bound to happen. He is trying to climb up and out of everything these days.

He climbed out of his stroller and BOOM.

Got rug burn right under his eye, and bruised up his little head pretty good, as you can see.

Lots of tears were shed. Poor baby.

I arranged to surprise my in-laws with a cake for their anniversary.
Our waiter came out and they were sung to.
Then he made my father-in-law sing a line to my mother-in-law.
It was the cutest thing.
Happy anniversary to two of my favorite people on earth! xo

At 10:30 PM there was a "white hot" party.

We got all dressed in white and headed to the dance floor.


Such a good day.
Tomorrow is our favorite day of the entire cruise.
Oh my goodness it's so beautiful.

The sweetest sand castle I have ever seen.

AMAZING.

and I was yelling from the bathroom "get me out of here!"

Greece is the cutest. ever.