Baltic Cruise

So we recently took our last big European vacation. We're leaving Sicily in the next few months so we decided to go out with a bang and we did a Baltic Cruise! It was our first time travelling as a family of four and we're glad to report that it was a successful trip. Bella is already a seasoned traveler so we weren't too worried about her. But it was our first time going anywhere with Gabby. She was such a trooper though! The only real issue we had was that she was exhausted everyday by dinnertime. So, Brian and i would take turns holding her, taking her out of the restaurant to distract her, and pretty much doing anything else we could just to make it through dinner. Other than that, we enjoyed "cruising" so much that we've already started looking into doing a Disney cruise (once Gabby is old enough to enjoy it, of course :)

We had a chance to visit some really amazing and beautiful cities on our cruise. We were so worried about the weather - the forecast had called for temperatures to be in the high 50's to low 60's and raining at pretty much every port. We were so happy that the only day it actually rained was the day we departed and then it was sunny and fairly warm the rest of the time! The cruise left out of Kiel, Germany and the ports of call were:

Stockholm, Sweden
Tallinn, Estonia
St. Petersburg, Russia
Copenhagen, Denmark

All of the cities were great but our favorite was Copenhagen. It's a very lively and modern city yet it still has a lot of history and charm. It's also not too big and not too small, so we felt like we did a lot in the few hours that we were there. We even had a chance to visit an amusement park (Tivoli Gardens). Stockholm and St. Petersburg were also beautiful but they are so big that it was hard to see everything we wanted to see during the time we were there. I guess this just means that we'll have to do another Baltic cruise sometime in the future :)

Anyway, here are just a few of the pictures from our cruise. Enjoy!