sea days

February 23, 2013: At Sea
Another late-start morning. I had a long breakfast in a crowded Lido, some passengers sat with me and we chatted while we ate. No one came up to the Loft, so I sat with my pages of Sudokus and music.

Jacob asked me to work with the kids this afternoon so he could do some work in the office and get stuff done for the last few days of the cruise. It was kind of insane because ALL of the kids were there and running around, begging for my attention. But, I made it through. The little girl actually stayed for a while before noticing that her mom left, then she ran to me and sat with me the rest of the time. :) Most of the kids actually got along for once, usually they’re arguing over what to play. After work, I read some, went to dinner and went to it again. We really didn’t do any “Brave the Night” activities. But, they got along and played games in groups which I was more than fine with!

February 24, 2013: At Sea again
Just another day at sea really. Morning shift in the Loft followed by an afternoon in Club HAL, there were only a few there the first hour and they were content to play video games, then a few more arrived and I put in a movie since it was on the schedule. It went by pretty quickly and I got to play some Lego Harry Potter with one of the kids while others watched the movie.

It was the last night of the cruise, so it was supposed to be movie night. But they were all getting along so well, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to let them continue what they were doing: boys playing video games (one with my help) and the girls building a fort and making decorations for it and then playing sardines. Jacob was going to let me off at 10 and take over late night, but we got into playing Bop It Extreme followed by Spoons, so I didn’t leave until 11. They were having so much fun, they didn’t even realize that we hadn’t gone down for ice cream.

I went to the OB for the first time here. It’s set up very differently from the Oosterdam, which surprised me since they’re the same class ship. I talked with Jacob and Krista for a while, then Lianne (she was on the Maasdam as well, works in the front office). I met a few people and now feel a bit more comfortable around them, so now it won’t take so much work to actually motivate myself to go out at night.