sea days

November 23, 2012: Sea Day 2
I had gone to bed earlyish last night, and slept in kind of late this morning, I was ready to go before breakfast closed though, but that meant I didn’t really didn’t have anything to do until lunch then work. I watched the news for a bit, since Fox News is, yet again, the only thing we can get on the TV. I had lunch with Kayley and Brandi, happily they had fried chicken in the Lido, and it was actually good!
Work this afternoon was interesting. The girl and the French boy came in about the same time a few minutes after I got there. They both wanted to make more picture frames, so they followed me to the cabinet where the box was. The boy suddenly decided to tickle me as I was putting the box back in the cabinet, so I bent down to pick them up; as I stood up, I slammed my head into the cabinet door. It was really painful and I had to run to the bathroom because I didn’t want it to bleed more (it wasn’t really bleeding badly, but it was in my hair and I wanted to make sure it stopped quickly). I think they realized after that that I wasn’t going to put up with them screaming any more today because my head was hurting. The others came by not long after and they amused themselves running around the room before I took them outside to play tag. They really needed to get some of that energy out, and they did because it was windy and they were running everywhere. Finally we went back to Club HAL and the boys sat down for video games while the girls colored. Cass came by and colored with us for a while. She even went downstairs with us for snacktime. It helped having someone else there, I could take one or two of them to get water or more jello or more ice cream while I knew the others would be somewhat well behaved with someone watching them.

Cass and I got down to the room a little after four and the phone rang just as we walked in the door. Cass answered and as soon as she said the DJ’s name I remembered Bingo, so I told him I’d be right up and ran upstairs to do the math for Bingo since I’d been at work when they sold the cards. After that, Cass game me an ice pack for me to hold on my head for a while as I sat on my bed just to make sure the scrape on my head didn’t swell up any more than it already had (it’s okay, it only did a little bit). It helped having something (the cold) to distract me from the occasional pain it gave me.

I called Maria because she had said a few days ago that she really wanted to do my hair for the Black and White Ball. She looked at my dress and got an idea of what to do and we went to her room so she could fix my hair. It looked really good. She curled it all, then pinned it kind of into a ponytail on the side, adding a black flower. I changed, then went up to dinner. There weren’t many people at dinner. I guess a lot of people, like Kayley and Sam (who I went to see before I went up), ordered room service. I sat with everyone in the photo department; they all had to leave before I was done though so I sat alone for a little while.

After dinner, I wasn’t sure what to do, so I sat in on the first show (both the shows were an hour earlier because of the Black and White Ball). Then, I attended the show for the second run-through. It was a really good show, a singer/comedian. She sang some famous songs, but changed them up some, the song Over the Rainbow was changed to “Over-indulgence” talking about the food on cruise ships.

After the show, the Black and White Ball began. Kayley sang a few songs, and then the Captain and all the officers came in. The guests had to go up and grab an officer to dance with, there were three specific dances where they had a chance to get a prize, depending on which officer had the prize in his/her pocket. It was fun to watch as a lot of guests scrambled to get to a particular person before someone else did. By the hour mark, most of the officers had left and quite a few of the guests; the entertainment department and the guests that know us and talk to us all the time remained until the end.

November 24, 2012: Sea Day 3
I worked this morning. The girl came up with her mom, but didn’t really want to stay because the other kids weren’t there. She was unhappy that I worked in the morning because she wanted to spend all afternoon with me and the others. That was an interesting conversation as the mother tried to convince her to stay. I read for a while until the French boy came. We made snowflakes, played Lego Harry Potter and watched Megamind. Not a bad morning.

Kayley met me for lunch because we planned on eating then watching Harry Potter 6 together since I had the afternoon off. Sam and Brandi joined us. I somehow ate really quickly and got bored sitting there as I couldn’t contribute at all to the conversation, not that I had much of a chance to anyway. I came downstairs to read and wait until Kayley was ready to watch the movie. We watched most of the movie before she had to go to rehearsal for HAL Chorale and I had to go to Bingo. After Bingo I thought she’d come by my room to get me to watch the rest of us, but she didn’t show up so I listened to music and read for the rest of the afternoon. I sat with Glenn at dinner. Apparently Staff Dinner is no longer a thing, guests keep coming over to our side probably because they see the shorter line and get jealous. Of course, that also means that they have to eat the not as well done food. Maybe that means that the food quality will improve on the staff side! A lot of crew have been complaining about all the guests taking over our side, but my view is if guests come, then the food is bound to get better, who cares if we have to wait a few extra minutes for food.

Anyway, the usual three kids came up and we colored, played video games, watched Tangled and ran around for a while. 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