The Pepe 7- takes an Epic Voyage

OK we go finally.... So here is the beginning of our vacation. We leave with a bang...or rather a very large crack in an 80ft tree that needed to come down and luckily we were able to have it removed the day before we left.....

This crack was huge and went more than 1/2 way thru the trunk.


We found a company that agreed to climb it instead of having to bring in trucks and rip our yard apart - this bastard was NUTS!


Here we go - we start off on a foggy day but it was still kinda cool to get pretty close to Lady Liberty:



We raced up to the top floor in time to see....



a bridge.....


the freakin Verazzano bridge.... Now that was cool!

Here are the kids all excited from the loot that the Easter Bunny left. Bella said it was a good thing he knew how to swim:


Sophia's 1st trip to the pool...

For weeks leading up to our trip Sam kept talking about the towel animals. Her friends had taken cruises and were excited about the towel animals. After we were in our rooms I made a point of finding the stewards. I had read the the cruise line was making alot of cuts and the towel animals were one of them. So I wanted to make sure my kids got these animals made. I found the guy that was in charge of our room and I told him there were 5 kids and he needed to getting busy making the animals. I tipped him generously and we were given animals. The kids would race back to the room after breakfast to see what was made...

So here they had gotten a snake and a bunny. Anthony is holding a mouse and there was a lobster in the other room.



then the kids saw the monkey and went nuts....


he stayed up for 3 days then his head fell off and it got kinda creepy..




to be continued.....