A ferry merry Christmas

This is actually a photo taken in Oslo, but Jake, his big brothers Alex and Zac and I were in such a hurry to get on board in Copenhagen that I totally forgot to get out my camera.

We weren't even sure we would leave Danish waters because four steps from the check-in, I looked at Jake's passport and thought...gosh he looks young in that photo. Suddenly realised I'd brought his old English passport by mistake. It ran out last year. His new one was at his dad's. Oops. Zac said just smile and we'll get through, after all if you drive to norway you don't need a passport. Luckily we got on board but Jake's dad was on high alert ready to fax anything required just in case! 

In fact we were so happy to get on board that Jack the Pirate Parrot got a hug!

The rest of this post will show some of the facilities on board for kids.

Jake's too old for the ball pit now really.

And these toys too, though...

...noughts and crosses is still fun, actually.

And down in the Bubble zone, the stones pillows are interesting to flop about on. 

There's a big model ship...

And another means of transporting youngsters into seventh heaven.

But we thought the hot tub area looked nice.

You pay 50 kr for adults and 25 kr for kids and have access
both the night you leave and next morning.
We didn't try these but we did try the one out on deck - on the way home.

As usual, I'll be posting more photos at about weekly intervals so stay tuned to see a T-Rex cast, where we stayed in Oslo and what we got up to and a our trip back, including the hot tub adventure.