Dubrovnik

September 26, 2013: Dubrovnik
I had the late morning shift with the kids and then the teens. It wasn’t bad, there were only 3 kids there, and they were content to play Uno and Legos for the hour I was there. After that, I just got to hang out with the teens for half an hour. They had an air hockey competition followed by a ping-pong competition (the girl was determined to meet one of the boys). We had an entertainment department meeting at 12:30, so Megan and I watched as sailed ever-closer to Dubrovnik. Sadly we missed the actual docking, but it was a nice sail-in before the meeting. After a quick meeting, we went to lunch and everyone apparently had the same idea – get lunch before getting off the ship. We had to search a bit to find a seat, so we took a long time eating since we knew both gangways would be packed as soon as the crowd finished eating.
Megan forgot to take money out this morning, and I only had a few Kuna left, so in lieu of the bus, we walked to Old Town. That was a much longer walk than anticipated, it took us an hour to get there, and once we were close, we had to take a bunch of stairs downwards to the gates to get in! It was good exercise though, who needs the gym when you can walk to town up and down and around small mountains?

I had suggested that we walk on the walls of Old Town, but once we were there, we saw that there was a price attached to that, somewhere around 80 Kuna. Definitely out of our price range, so we ended up just walking around inside the walls, then stopping somewhere and getting wifi for a bit before I had to head back to the ship to eat and get to work on time. On the way back, we somehow managed to make a wrong turn, and I stopped recognized the buildings we were passing. We started going up instead of down towards the water and I started to freak out a little bit, the roads here are fairly straightforward, there are only a few places where they connect, nothing at all like a grid pattern. So, I knew we had to turn left to get down to the water, but every “road” we tried to turn down ended up being a dead end parking-only street. I was realy worried about being late, because I only had little over an hour to get back. I’d all but given up on dinner by the time we found a bunch of stairs going down and decided to follow them in hopes they would take us downhill to the road beside the marina. Thankfully it did, and we were a lot closer to the ship than I’d figured we were. So, I got back, changed and still had enough time for a good dinner before work.

It was an easy night, I had three of the kids, not even for the whole time, for the first hour and half, only one boy was there, so we let him play Xbox and help Megan and I with the puzzle (Megan didn’t have to be there, but we’ve gotten into a habit of coming up early and staying late to hang out before/after our assigned shifts). Two girls came and they were content to play games with each other, and none of us really wanted to go outside to the Sports Deck (Sports Under the Stars theme night), so we stayed in and did stuff in Club HAL. By 9, two had been picked up, and the girl who remained wanted to play Kinect Sports Bowling, so I set that up for her and sat chatting with Megan and the teens, keeping an eye on her playing. I would’ve played with her, but she told me to set it up as only one player. Her parents came a bit early, and we discussed what happens in the kids club on port days; so I might have kids for port day tomorrow since they tired her out today walking all over Dubrovnik. After they left, I went over the Loft with Megan and the teens and we ended up watching Doctor Who until time to leave.