just another day in paradise

March 10, 2014: Half Moon Cay
Daniella and I were on a tender by 8:30 this morning, which meant that we were on the island by 8:50, so we had half an hour of time before ‘work.’ I guess I could have run down the beach again, but I was just too tired today to do that, so we both ended up laying out on the sand and taking a nap for the half hour. None of the kids ended up showing up for island activities (as usual, it’s the first full day of the cruise, and we only had 4 show up last night, so I wasn’t really expecting anyone anyway), so we packed up and went to my normal beach spot to spend the afternoon.

The beach really wasn’t very crowded, which was surprising, of course I guess most people take longer to recover from Daylight Savings hour forward than I do now, seeing as we change hours twice a week! Daniella had to check out the volleyball court to see if any of the teens showed up (she had almost half the teens show up last night, so it’ll be a busy week for her). Jeremy joined me while she was gone until he had to go to team basketball. When they both finally got back, the three of us got a drink (strawberry-banana daiquiri for me, minus the actual daiquiri part) and took out snacks and enjoyed sitting in the sun for a while. Slowly more crew members joined us, Dani the port shopping girl, Greg the piano bar guy, the cast, a few HAL Cats, lots of people were there to hang out with! We played Frisbee for a bit, and watched the cast/HAL cats throw football, and swam. It was easy to pretend (for once) that we were just on vacation, not crew members, probably because none of the guests really ventured that far down the beach today.

Daniella had to work at 4, so she headed back around 2 to make sure she caught a tender and had enough time, but Jeremy and I stayed and hung out with everyone else for a while before I helped him go collect the sports equipment and we headed back to the ship. It had been a perfectly beautiful day! :)
Back on the ship, I kind of took a nap while doing laundry, and decided to curl my hair for formal night, even though I wasn’t quite sure how much time I’d actually be out in formal after work. Work went by quickly, Spy Night was a hit as always! We combined the tweens and kid since there were only about 10 total, strange since there are 30 on board. It’s good because they’re working very well together, and Michelle and I work really well together, we take turns running activities and I guess it’s because I helped train her with these age groups that we both kind of run the activities the same way. The night went by more quickly than any night from the past month or so, I guess really since the Blues Cruise! Wow, that was a really long time ago it feels like now!

I quickly changed into formal and went to the Northern lights to check on Jeremy for a bit, it wasn’t crowded there, and I ended up making a loop around decks 2 and 3 to see if there were many people out anywhere around the ship. Very few people were out tonight for some reason, it was a bit strange; the piano bar wasn’t even that crowded! I left before closing to go to the PO for a party Santana organized (she wasn’t sure until yesterday if she would be leaving in Grand Cayman or not, turns out that she’s not, so it was a ‘just because’ party instead of a ‘going away’ party). She had ordered so much food, so we all had to help eat all the chicken nuggets, sandwiches and pizza. It was nice, just a chance to hang out and chat, different location than normal which always makes things more fun. I hung out with Cassandra and some of the photogs for a bit before Daniella came and of course, we ended up just hanging out with the rest of the “On location” team the rest of the night (the librarian Antonio, Santana, and Jeremy once he got off work). Not a bad way to end a great day!