more sea day

Towards the end of the night, the French boy got the idea to make a rocket ship, so we helped him with that (a few plastic cups taped together and construction paper. Then, we decided to hang it from the ceiling, which gave us the idea to make a solar system and hang it up. So the rest of the night was spent coloring circles as planets and me taping them to the ceiling.
The French boy’s mom came a bit late to pick him up, so I had to run downstairs and change quickly to catch the last 20 minutes of the show. It was a variety show, I missed the singer/comedian, but I enjoyed hearing the other two (singer and clarinet player) perform. After the show, I went up with the band for late night as usual. We stayed and talked to the Neptunes band leader until we all got too tired to stay up chatting any longer

November 25, 2012: Sea Day 4
I made it to breakfast at the perfect time this morning, there were plenty of tables open and no one in line, but there were a few crew members there to eat with. After breakfast, I went back to the room and hung out with Cass before she had to go upstairs to play in the Lido. I went up not long after to get lunch and listen to them play, but the ceiling was closed so they weren’t playing. Something had gone wrong in the dome and it was stuck closed, but they were fixing it, so I sat with them until they finally could play and I had to go to work. All four of the kids were there this afternoon, we did the usual activities, and I took them outside to play basketball and tennis and shuffleboard because they really needed to run around for a while. I helped with Bingo, then I was done for the day.
I read in the room for a while until it was time for church. I met Kayley as she was getting back and she told me that church was at 9am, not the usual 5pm, so I’d missed it. I was very sad about that, because I was really looking forward to the church service. Saddened by that, I just read the rest of the afternoon since my plan had been ruined. I went to dinner at the usual time and sat with the band. We sat there talking until 8:30 when Cass and I separated from Glenn and Blake. The guys went downstairs to go to the crew office while Cass and I went to the shops and the Mix to listen to Brandi play. When she was done, the guys joined us in the shops and we talked to some of the shop staff, then went to the piano bar to listen to the music there before the show.

The show was the French boys parents, an acrobatic show. It was pretty amazing. She is extremely flexible and they’re both amazingly strong, lifting one another up and holding poses, then doing stuff on the silk ribbons hanging from the ceiling. The boy was even in the show, as part of the last bit, it was kind of cool seeing someone I spend a lot of the day with on stage. I was very impressed. After the show Cass and I were on our way to late night when we stopped by the piano bar again and talked to some of the guests for a while. We finally made it to late night, and strangely there weren’t many people there.