sea day

April 13, 2013: Sea Day
I got up at the usual time this morning, despite not having to work until 2:30. It’s odd having nothing really to do in the morning. I may have to talk to the band and see if they want to watch a movie or something the last two sea day mornings. I did laundry after breakfast today, and actually managed to go through pictures finally. I surprisingly don’t have a lot for this contract (for me at least, I’m sure I took more pictures this contract than other people take in a year).

After lunch and finishing laundry, I finally got to go to work. The late afternoon shift is probably the easiest you can get. It’s 30 minutes outside on the Sports deck followed by ice cream in the Lido and 30 minutes of an activity back inside. We just ended up extending an activity into Sports Deck time, going outside a bit late, then going down for ice cream and getting back to Club HAL with about 10 minutes until close.

At 4 Erich came by since we’d agreed to play MarioKart after I got off work until he had to go get ready for work/formal night. He hasn’t played in a while, but still beat me (not that I’m that great at it anyway). It was fun, we laughed a lot and talked some, and just enjoyed having something to do in our time off.

I went down to the room finished working on my pictures until dinner. After a somewhat long dinner, I still had an hour to kill before I had to go to work, so I ended up watching part of a movie that was on one of the crew channels then going to work early.

When I arrived, they had the lights off and were playing hide-and-seek (which I told them we could play tonight while we were getting ice cream this afternoon). They kept on playing that for an hour. When they finally stopped listening to me and Christine when we told them to walk inside instead of run, we turned on the lights and continued with our alien night theme. I cut paper and we traced them and spent the rest of the evening turning their outlines into aliens. By 9:30 all the parents had come to pick them up so Christine and I talked for a bit, then I showed her what was in the Loft (she’d been here before, but I figured I’d make sure she remembered everything because it was a few years ago, and she’s been at Disney for a while now; plus I knew Chrissy wouldn’t know anything about the Loft to give handover notes about it). We wiped down all the tables and stools, then left a bit early.