April 14, 2013: Colombia
It was a beautiful morning in Cartegena! I got up around my normal time, then went off-ship to the port area. There’s not a whole lot there, but it easily kept me occupied for two hours! There was a small shop with all sorts of souvenirs and jewelry, a café, and a kind of zoo area. There were peacocks, flamingos, iguanas, parrots, toucans and monkeys roaming around! I had such a great time taking pictures of all of the creatures. I wish now that I would’ve brought my long lens with me because the monkeys were high up in the trees, and the peacocks were far away behind a fence. I did get good pictures though of the other birds. I was right next to a parrot for a while. One parrot tried to nibble on my toe (probably because I was wearing bright yellow polish), and a toucan kind of spit on me as I was taking its picture. I had my camera out, he was eating some kind of fruit and then suddenly shook his head, spraying me with the fruit! Kind of gross, but who else can say they’ve been kind of spit on by a toucan!? :)
After an hour or so of wandering around seeing the animals, I got on the internet for a while (not too expensive and it was pretty quick) before having to get back on the ship. I didn’t work until 8:30 so I was at a bit of a loss at what to do. I had lunch late, trying to avoid the crowd, then went out to the pool area to see what was going on for the 140th birthday of HAL. Each department had a booth. I made it halfway around before I was recruited to help out with the Explorations Team booth. I sat with my legs out to hold up the cornhole board against the wall, and picked up bean bags and threw them back to the person running the booth. It was extremely hot. The cruise director did finally bring us lemonades and someone else brought popcorn by. I stayed there working until 4 when the party finally ended. It was so hot, I had to shower when I got back to the room. Then I just hung out going through all my pictures from the morning until dinnertime.
It was spy night in Club HAL and I got there right as they got back from a scavenger hunt. We had snack and played Black Magic until they figured out the trick, then I taught them Chinese numbers. By the time that ended, we only had two, so we played a game called ‘ticking time bomb’ that Christine taught us. You throw a ball and start counting down from 10 when it touches the ground, the last person who touched it when you get to 1 is out. Hard to play with only two boys who tend not to listen. We gave up on that and just let them play Shrek the board game until their parents came to pick them up.
After cleaning up, I went down to the photo gallery to see Erich since he said he’d give me some music. He finished up a promo for the week’s DVD and set the computer to burn it to a DVD (which takes an hour) then we went downstairs and I got my hard drive for him to put some music on. We talked music for a while, then I went back to my room and got my camera to show him some of the pictures of the animals I took in port. We talked photos for a while and then ended up watching a TV show on his computer. I’ve missed getting off work before midnight.
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