Spain

November 5, 2012: Almeria, Spain
We’re on mainland Europe now, finally! I worked from 9-12 today. All the kids came up at the same time. They were content to color so I sketched out a design of something I could color and let them work on their coloring pages. They only finished two each before Brian came to take over for the afternoon. I met Daniel in line for food and sat with him and some of the spa girls for lunch before I went downstairs to change and go out with Cass, Glenn, Blake and Edison.

We went out and explored all afternoon. We walked around, found a cathedral, a fort and a few more churches and ended up on what seemed to be the main street with lots of shopping and cafés. The band had to get back to play by the pool so Edison and I stayed with Maria (from the cast), Mack and Jim who we had just found at a café. We moved cafes because we were having trouble connecting to the internet and Jim had been to one earlier in the day that had a really good connection. We found it and stayed there for a while, allowing me enough time to check my emails, check facebook, post the last three blogs and talk to Mom for just a few minutes.

After I got back on the ship, I got ready to go to the Lido pool to hear the HAL Cats play, but saw Kayley’s door open on the way open. Turns out that they couldn’t play because it started raining. Kayley and I looked through our pictures from the day and watched the rest of Harry Potter 4 until dinner.

After a long dinner with some of the cast members, I came back down to the room and went through my pictures and did laundry.

November 6, 2012: sea morning/Barcelona day 1
I managed to wake up early and be ready and get breakfast before they closed on a day when I didn’t work. It was a rough start, but at least I made it! I went back to sleep after breakfast, since I hadn’t slept well last night, but was awoken by a call only 20 minutes later, it was the DJ letting me know that we had Bingo this morning and if I could, come help (basically as soon as I could get ready would be great). So, I went up there, but there weren’t enough people to play so he canceled it for the day. So, only 10 minutes later I went back to sleep, but then had to get up for lunch because I thought I worked at 12. We ended up having a sea day schedule so I didn’t have to be there until 1. I had a leisurely lunch with some of the girls from the spa before going up to work. I read until the girl came up and we played Candyland and colored.

The other kids came up and we watched Toy Story 3 and colored all afternoon. Their parents came up again an hour before close; they had just found out that they had a tour at 4:30 and were wondering if they could pay me for after-hours care. I was fine with it so I just stayed 3 hours late with them, taking them for supper and watching movies/coloring the whole time. The other girl doesn’t come up at night anymore, so once they picked the kids up after the tour, I was free for the night!

I waited for Cass and she took a group of us out to a place she had been on her last overnight in Barcelona. We had a great time, just hanging out, it was an interesting group: Cass, me, Kayley, Brandi, Jim, Jim’s daughter, Ginger and Ron the cellar master. Kayley brought her new camera so she took a lot of pictures. The Black Sheep (the name of the place Cass took us) kind of reminded me of the Wohoo in Aix, it had the same cave-y feel, but it was a much bigger place.