Vancouver embark day

May 7, 2014: Vancouver
Home port day. One week down, one week to go! Not that I’m way too excited to come home, just this past week was really hard on me. I need one night where I sleep the whole night through without waking up, and where I might be able to sleep past 8. That might cure me. That I needed that wasn’t helped by the amount of energy it took me to work with the kids. I have realized that I may find working with the little ones so difficult and exhausting because the first time I was ‘alone’ with the little group, I had that sinus infection and felt horrible all week; and now I just associate the two: the littles and being sick and tired. Maybe.

Anyway, I had to go gangway farewell this morning at 8:30, so I was up early yet again. The good thing about it was that I only had to be out there for half an hour! Once I finished that, I came back on the ship, changed, and Dianne and I got off the ship for a late breakfast. We hung out in the food court across from the ship for a while using the internet, before I had to come back to change again to do Open House. Teleya and I worked open house, and no one showed up until the end of our time, when Dianne and Danielle showed up to take over. We ended up staying an extra 20 minutes to help them with the flood of families that came in at 1:30. Very hungry by this point, we got some lunch and hung out by the pool for a while. I tried to take a nap once I got back to the room, but I didn’t manage to fall asleep. When Dianne got off, she showed me where the laundry room was and we washed some clothes between then and the entertainment department meeting and sailaway.

I’m on tweens this week, so after sailaway and a quick dinner, I went upstairs to get stuff ready for the night. The tween room got crowded quickly! I had over 20 signed in by snacktime. Luckily we had just enough chairs for everyone. We made it through making the contract of fun and ‘all about me’ sheets before most of the parents came to pick up their kids to go to the show, so for the last 45 minutes, I had 5 kids. We played ‘move your booty’ that entire time because they figured out they loved it. It’s a good group of kids. As always, there’s the one crazy one who influences some of the others into being wild with him, but other than that, I like this group of tweens, they’re willing to do the activities and are all pretty creative.