another sea day

January 7, 2013: Sea day
Anna switched the schedule around a bit, so I got to sleep in this morning instead of having to work. It was odd sleeping so late, but I feel like I need more sleep right now so I’m okay with that. I went up for lunch and sat with some of the new HAL Cats members until I had to get to work. At first it was just two of the littles that showed up, then it was almost movie time and two of the tweens showed up. I attempted to start the movie on time, but the plug for the xbox was missing so we had to take a field trip to the Loft so I could get Triston to help me. He found a plug for the adapter and I got it plugged in and started the movie. It was a quiet afternoon, I think one of the tweens actually fell asleep on the couch during the movie. The lights were off, the window blind/doors were shut and all that was happening was the movie.

I had to stay kind of late because one of the parents came late, but I went back to the room and slept until dinner, still hoping that I might feel a lot better if I just sleep enough. No luck with that. I went up for dinner and sat with some of the shore excursion people (they didn’t really talk to me), Triston, and the techspert and travel guide (the last two didn’t really talk to me either). The crew here definitely aren’t as friendly or mixing (with other departments or even within a department). I’m really only friends with Linda, the light tech, Triston and Seth, the DJ. I don’t see many of them often though because I’ve been attempting to feel better and they all have different schedules than me.

Anyway, I went up to Club HAL early to look through the Safari night activity idea list and ended up reading kids books after making a list of stuff I could do tonight. Two of my kids showed up, two boys that are usually there and are best friends. It was a pretty easy night. They followed directions and we actually managed not to finish the list of activities I’d planned. Although, one of them left at 9 so it was just two of us, not good for certain games like four corners, relay races and charades. The two of us just ended up sitting in the bucket and reading storybooks, during which he fell asleep so I ended up reading them quietly to myself until his family came to get him- it’s very difficult to wake him up, his sister picked him up and nearly dropped him (I made sure his feet were one the ground at least) and he still wasn’t awake. Did I ever sleep that heavily?

After all the kids left and I cleaned up, I went to see how Triston was doing (he’s been bored a bit since the teens aren’t always consistent about coming up so he’s alone in the Loft). There were a few teens there and they had just turned on “The Goonies.” I’d never seen it before and a lot of people told me I should, so I stuck around to watch it. With about 15 minutes left, the DVD quit working, and it was 12 anyway so we didn’t finish the movie. I helped Triston clean up and decided to call it a night since I’m working port day morning tomorrow. Somehow I doubt many kids will show up- perhaps the 7-year-old, but I think most parents and kids like to stay together most of the time.