Family (Cruise) Vacation: Day 2

The first full cruise day was spent at sea. After paying proper homage to the omelette bar, I did a little bit of exploring around the fourteen different decks of the ship, taking pictures along the way. Some of the cool features are the rock climbing wall, 9 hole putt-putt golf course, full workout room, Univ of Miami Oceanic Research Lab (the only lab of it's kind in the world) as well as the requisite multiple swimming pools and hot tubs. Of course, doing all of that exploring is hard work, so one must continually be well fortified with food and drink to keep up the energy, so I made sure that I paid attention to the various buffets around the ship as well . Tonight was the Captain's Dinner or Formal night and it was quite cute to see my grand-nephew and grand-niece all dressed up. Of course, everyone else looked very nice as well.
(Note: The lobster wasn't bad either... )

As a side note, I made the decision to shoot exclusively in RAW format for this vacation, thanks to a co-worker tipping me off about a cool program called Bibble which makes it extremely easy to manipulate the RAW "digital negatives". The only drawback to shooting in RAW format is that it takes up a lot of space - on my Pentax ist*DS it is about 10 MB/picture (so I brought 8.5 GB of SD storage with me, much to the amusement of some of my family members ).