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November 3, 2012: Casablanca
I went out with Kayley, Edison and the Adagio strings this morning, just for an hour though since we left late and I had to be back by 12 for work. We walked for about 45 minutes into the city and then Kayley, Edison and I took a taxi back because there wasn’t much to see and I was worried about getting back in time.
When I got up to work, the siblings were there, they had had a late breakfast so weren’t ready for lunch yet, so Brian let me get lunch and bring it up to eat. He actually stayed up there for a while too, even brought lunch up there. It was the first time we’ve both been working since the first day of this cruise.
The girl just colored and watched the movie Brian had put in for her, and I helped the boy with the video game again. Not long after, the other girl came in and the two girls played house together (the sibling girl wasn’t too happy about it, every time the other girl is there she wants them to play house). The siblings finally got hungry so we went down for pizza and dessert. By the time we got back upstairs, it was nearly time for them to leave.
Everyone I knew was off the ship for the afternoon, so I hung out in my room after work, Cass did come back and we talked and looked through some of her pictures until dinner. I worked again after dinner, I got up there at 7 and read for a while, talking to the people that came in to clean. The kids hadn’t shown up by 9, so I left and went down to the room. I met Bea in the spa and talked to her for a while since she was alone there until 10. I got distracted when I got to my room because I started to look though all my pictures. When Cass got back from the show I drew her in on it as well and kept showing her some of my old pictures. Edison came by and I showed him some of the landscape and flower pictures I’ve taken and like the most. Finally, his room service arrived (he occasionally asks Kayley or me to order room service since he doesn’t have that privilege) so he left.

November 4, 2012: Tangier
It was an interesting morning. My phone apparently decided to follow Daylight Savings Time (I was sure I had it set not to) so it was an hour behind, problematic because it is my alarm clock. Good thing I didn’t have to work early this morning because I got up around 10.
The girl was the only one there when I got to work, so we finished the game of Candyland she and Brian had been playing and played two more before I decided to go down for lunch. She didn’t want to eat, so ate a snack instead of a full lunch. As we were leaving, we saw the other kids and their mom heading upstairs so they got signed in and we all went upstairs. The girls colored the whole time while the boy asked for my help with Lego Star Wars again. We did manage to figure out how to get past two of the levels we got stuck on yesterday! Towards the end of the afternoon, we stopped playing the game and all sat down to color until their parents came to pick them up. The girls surprisingly took their time coloring the pages so they’d only finished a few before they left.
I found Kayley in the Lido so sat with her and the rest of the band until 5 when Kayley, Glenn and I went to a church service on the ship. Apparently this has been happening every Sunday since this cruise started. There were about 30 people there, and the pastor’s wife played a keyboard to accompany the hymns (HYMNS!!). I really enjoyed the service; I wish I’d known about it sooner though so I could’ve been there the last few weeks. The sermon was on Job, and our reactions to suffering. He talked about Elizabeth Elliot (the women who went to the village to witness to the village that killed her husband; I first heard about her at the Barn, but had forgotten her name) and had a great quote about how an oyster gets a painful grain of sand inside of it, and slowly over time transforms it into a beautiful pearl. I really like that analogy, transforming our suffering, using it to better something. I’m definitely going to be there next week!
I went straight from the service to dinner, then straight from dinner to work. The siblings came in after a few minutes and the girl went straight to the coloring pages. The boy wasn’t sure what to do at first, then decided on watching Toy Story 3 and coloring. So, that’s what we did all evening, watched a movie and colored. I sharpened all the colored pencils (most of them were flat or broken because they like to color hard with them sometimes). There were only 20 minutes left after the movie ended, so we watched the extra features on Toy Story until their dad came to pick them up.