sea day and san juan

December 2, 2012: Sea Day 2
It was another full day of work! We attempted to follow the schedule of activities, but it just didn’t happen because we had the littles and the tweens combined, and the schedules are very different for them; it didn’t help that no one was there for the first hour either. We ended up coloring and playing board games all morning. I went downstairs for a bit before having lunch with the HAL Cats since their pool set was cancelled due to wind (again).

The afternoon was very quiet, none of the kids showed up for the first hour, then a few of the tweens did, so we let them play video games. Some of the little ones showed up and Aaron got them started on another activity while I stayed with the tweens. One of the tweens loves Harry Potter as well and we’ve been playing Lego Harry Potter together. I had to leave early because I’m back on Bingo duty. I told them that they’re going to have to find a replacement soon, since I leave soon and I’m not going to stay on the ship just to sell Bingo cards!

We had an hour of free time before starting Camp night. We divided them into groups, the two youngest together, then two other groups of two, and gave them paper to come up with a camp name, flag and chant. That took a very long time, by the time everyone had finished their flags, two had left, and two siblings had parents there waiting to sign them out. Only two tweens were left, so we told riddles and played some riddle games until they left. They left kind of early and I had told Aaron that I wanted to go to the show, so Aaron told me I could go early to get formalized and get there on time so I didn’t have to clean up.

It was my last time to see Bob Mackey’s Broadway with this cast, so I took my camera and took pictures of them, some of them turned out really well, which I’m happy about since I kept having to change light settings as the colors and spotlights kept changing.

Cass and I went to hear the Neptunes’ last set of the night and then went to late night. It was fun, the cruise director and the last Neptunes band leader were there as well, in addition to the cast.

December 3, 2012: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Aaron took over the morning shift, even though we weren’t in port until the afternoon. That meant that I got to sleep in for the first time in a while, and the last time until I get home probably. I had a quick lunch before going upstairs. It was a nice afternoon, I started Lego Harry Potter years 5-7 (which is one of the video games we just got) with one of the tweens, played Candyland with some of the younger kids, and we all played foosball for a little while. Club HAL was open until 5 today since we didn’t get to port until 1. After that, I got off the ship and walked around for a while before coming back for dinner and work again.

It was “cosmic cruisers” night. We drew our own alien, rolling a die to see how many heads, eyes, ears, mouths, arms, etc it had and then coloring him in. After that, we had snack! Dinner hasn’t been very good lately, so I was very pleased to have chicken nuggets and fruit! Then, we had all the kids make their own planet. This didn’t last too long because the parents of the little ones picked them up a few minutes into that activity. So, we were left with the tweens who were more than happy to play foosball and video games until we closed.

I went to the room to change and go to the OB, but got distracted as Cass started watching Monsters Inc. I haven’t seen that movie in a long time, so I ended up watching the whole thing with her before going out to see people for a little while. I had work at 8, so didn’t stay out long, just long enough to catch up with Glenn since I hadn’t seen him at all today.