A few words about the parents and the kids

We've been on a number of cruises. All have had kids, and parents, aboard. But none have had as many kids as the R Family ship. Capacity was about 3,000, and nearly a third of those people were children. (In fact, all those kids drove the ship above its official capacity -- though still well within its lifeboat capacity, the crew took pains to point out -- 'cause they took up every damn bunk in every damn stateroom, or so it seemed). Of course, in our stateroom, the boys just wedged themselves into their moms' bunks. But I digress.

Anyway, never have I seen such well-adjusted children and such patient adults. They weren't over-indulgent. They didn't let the kids run wild. There was just a lot of love on that ship. A lot of support. A lot of people glad that they didn't have to explain that they weren't aunts or uncles or grandmas or grandpas, but moms and moms and dads and dads.