May 17, 2013: Bar Harbor
We had to go through immigration today, what fun. It was a bit of a complicated morning. I had to help with immigration, go through it myself, AND work port day. We had to help out starting at 7:15; Carly and I were in charge of scanning the cards of everyone that came through so we could keep track of who had and hadn’t gone through immigration. I had to leave early to open up Club HAL for the three-year-old. Almost as soon as I got up there, they made an announcement for all crew that joined in Ft. Lauderdale and after to go to immigration, so Carly had to come relieve me almost right away so I could go. It was a lot of waiting. I went to the Half Moon room where they checked everyone off a list, then they dismissed US and Canadian citizens to the library where immigration was happening. We waited there, got our passports, and then waited in line. Once I finally got up to the CBP officer (something border protection), it took about 4 seconds for us to talk, him look over my passport, then let me go.
The girl and I watched a few movies today and did a lot of coloring. At least it was kind of an easy-ish day for me with only one to look after, but getting up early kind of rid me of a lot of patience; it didn’t help that she was a bit tired as well so in addition to talking bad and not listening, her attention span was even shorter than usual. Lunch thank goodness wasn’t too bad. I did have to keep threatening to go straight back up to Club HAL if she got up and ran around instead of finishing her food, and there was an incident when she ran between tables in the Lido screaming in her highest-pitched voice and a few people gave me angry looks as I tried to chase her down and get her out of there.
Later in the afternoon, the two siblings came, and the 3-year-old calmed down. We watched Shrek and made bead animals/bracelets. The 3-year-old surprisingly left early, so it was just the tweens and me for an hour. I was much happier then, we just finished our bead animals and played MarioKart.
I attempted to nap because I was so tired, but it just didn’t work. Someone in a room near ours had really loud music on with pounding bass, so I ended up getting a headache instead of rest. Dinner wasn’t that great, and I went up to Club HAL for a bit to check the expected list with Carly. There are 5 teens coming, and 9 kids, so I’ll be on teens next week (if they show up). The three tweens are staying on, which will be fun, they’ll be glad to have more kids around. After that, I took a long time to change into smart casual and relax before going back up to Club HAL to say bye to the three-year-old (who actually didn’t come tonight) before meeting the Port Shopping Ambassador Johnny to go to the show.
It was my first time seeing Dancing with the Stars at Sea on a small ship. There were only two different dances instead of three, the main singers had to be “pros” as well as the acupuncturist (because she’s had some prior dance experience). It was interesting, definitely not as much consistency in costumes because only the two pro dancers had the same costume. It was interesting though, Johnny’s thinking about being a judge in the coming weeks and we discussed how he’d do at it and what he could say, what his gimmick could be, etc. After the show, we went to the OB. I was extremely tired by this time, very grateful it was already 11. I decided I’d stay up until 12 so I could do my hours, then I’d finally get to sleep. I barely made it, the table was my support for keeping my head up and me slightly awake. Right at 12, I said by and left quickly to do my hours and happily climb in bed.
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