January 29/30

January 29, 2014
Grand Cayman
I worked port day this morning. It wasn’t too bad, none of the kids came until 10 and the 4 of them just played MineCraft all morning until lunch. Meghna was supposed to come up at 12 to take over, but she wasn’t there by 12:05, so I had to take them down for lunch alone. We got down there and she was eating lunch with the rest of the staff (Michelle and Martien just got on board today for YPC training). She somehow had it in her head that it was sea day schedule, so she didn’t start until 1.

Thankfully she took over the rest of lunch, so I ran down to the room, called Alex and we went to the beach like we’d planned. We didn’t have a whole lot of time there, but it was still nice, just hanging out in the sun for an hour before heading back for all aboard time. There was a bit of stress with the taxi because the driver insisted upon filling the bus to capacity before leaving, so we sat there for about 20 minutes before we finally made our way back to the ship. Luckily, there were still plenty of people ashore and little line for the tender so we were early for the last crew tender.

It was movie night, so instead of killing an hour waiting in my room, I hung out in Club HAL and watched the Smurfs until a teen came in and I had to head over to the Loft. The teen and I just played xbox and Skip-Bo until he left, and then I sat and read until it was late enough for me to leave.

January 30, 2014
Cozumel
Meghna worked until around noon, but after that, she, Will (HAL Cat), Alex and I got off and went for lunch. We went to the same restaurant that we went to last time with the cast. We hung out there for a while, just hanging out and of course getting wifi. Once everyone had finally exhausted their need for internet, and we all ate, we left to go back to the ship. I didn’t really know what else to do, so I went back as well, knowing I couldn’t go out with them later because I had to work at 7 while they were all off for the night. I met up with Kim (photog) back on the ship and she said she was going to the movie showing at 4, so I went with her after I changed. The movie was “Cinco de Mayo,” I only made it through about 30 minutes of it. It was in English, Spanish and French, with English subtitles. I ended up nearly falling asleep a few times, so I regretfully told Kim I had to go, and went to the room to nap instead.

Club HAL was rather quiet. Alicia, Martien and Michelle went to the office and I ran the theme night alone, not many kids were there anyway because they probably were having late dinners or something. Not a bad day at all :)