November 18, 2012: Lisbon day 2
I really like Portugal; Lisbon has definitely been the best one of the best ports of this trip. Cass and I went out kind of early this morning because I had to be back for work at 12. We went to the market in the main town. A bunch of people were there selling locally made things, and by locally-made, I mean the people who made them were selling them or a relative was selling them. We spent my hour there, then I had to leave because it was about a twenty minute walk back to the ship.
All the kids were in Club HAL, so we waited a little bit before I took them to lunch (they were all immersed in their activities when I arrived). Lunch took an hour because they kept getting distracted from eating or thinking of something else they wanted to eat.
The afternoon went by rather quickly, they played video games for a while, then the girls decided to color and get ready for another show. We spent the last half hour or so playing around; the girls would run from the boy and call for me to protect them. I’d let them know when it was safe to come out, then let the boy know when he should come out so we could start the whole process over again.
After I left work, the HAL Cats were in the Lido doing their sailaway set, so I got to sit in on their last song before we all hung out drinking tea until Glenn, Kayley and I left for church service. It was a really good service about turning points, and not ignoring when God is telling you to go a particular direction.
I had dinner, then went back to work. I just read until the siblings came up. We colored and watched Finding Nemo. The movie finished with about 30 minutes left until I closed, so we put on the special features and played with the jenga blocks until their dad came. I had to SuperSan before leaving, so that took about 20 minutes which meant I couldn’t go to the show. I hung out in my room until it was time for late night. I went up and had some tea with Glenn, Blake, Kayley and Sam. Glenn, Blake and I went downstairs afterwards and watched a documentary Blake has on his computer about someone who “walked” through the Bible. He went to various places that are in the Bible, some that are just guesses and talked about how actually seeing the places changes your view of the place, and of the story because it’s so much more real. It was interesting, we’re going to watch the other two parts of it sometime before I leave.
November 19, 2012: Sea day
I worked the morning shift, so I had a leisurely breakfast before going up to Club HAL. The girl and her mom came around 10, but she didn’t want to stay (after all that work getting her sisters stroller upstairs; there’s no elevator at the Club HAL end, so they had to go all the way to the front of the ship, take the elevators up, then walk outside to get to Club HAL). I stayed up there just in case they came back before 11:30. They didn’t, I just spent the time reading.
I went down to the room because I wasn’t quite hungry for lunch yet. About an hour later, when I finally went up to lunch, I was surprised to see that the place where salads normally are, they had set up an assortment of cheeses and cheese-based foods, even a cheese fountain. They even had a ton of Brie! I got some pasta and bread and brie and sat down with Kayley, Sam and Jim. It was too windy for the HAL Cats to play their pool set, but Cass, Robyn, Blake and Glenn ended up playing music themselves (when the ceiling is closed, the sound doesn’t get to escape so it’s really loud with drums and singing. Once they finished Kayley and Sam left and Cass joined Jim and me at our table. She found this soup that I had somehow missed that was really good. I ended up having to go get a bowl, it was watermelon! I’m not entirely sure what was in it, but it was really good. When I was getting a bowl of that, I ran into Glenn and Blake and they sat with us as well.
We were just sitting, talking and eating when suddenly Jim spotted dolphins outside! I screamed and ran to the window (I think some of the passengers that know me now aren’t surprised by reactions like this from me). There was a whole group of them swimming alongside the ship, doing flips and just having a blast! I’m pretty sure Glenn and I were most excited about seeing them. We stood at the window for at least 10 minutes watching them until they started to fall behind. We stayed by the pool just chatting for a long time.
We had Bingo at 4, so I helped sell cards. Apparently I have a twin somewhere because one of the passengers tells me I look exactly like her daughters best friend. I’m glad I’m finally starting to recognize the Bingo players outside of Bingo, it’s hard though because there’s so many people!
Robyn had invited me to eat dinner with the HAL Cats and the cast in the dining room tonight, so I hung out in the room with Cass until it was time to start getting ready for dinner. It was formal night so we all had to look our best (meaning I couldn’t just throw on my dress and head back upstairs like I normally do on formal nights when I work but want to go to the show). I was easily ready before Cass and Kayley and Sam. I helped them get ready and we finally went upstairs to the dining room. Dinner was good, I definitely ate more than I have all cruise. I tried other people’s food too (they offered!). I sat with the kids’ parents, the kids, Cass, Sam and Kayley. We had to divide the group up because there were too many people for one table, so we had our table of 8, a table of 6, and a table of 4. It was weird a bit for me sitting with the kids since I wasn’t working, but I felt like I was working since they kept asking me questions and wanting me to watch them do something.
After dinner, Kayley went to sing with the Neptunes, so Cass, Sam and I followed not long after so we could watch. Some of the cast and the rest of the HAL Cats joined us later. There were a lot of us there and it was a lot of fun, hanging out, listening to music and chatting. Once the Neptunes finished, Glenn and Blake wanted to go to late night; I went with them and we hung out there for a long time before going downstairs.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
cadiz and lisbon
November 16, 2012: Cadiz
I woke up really early this morning for some reason, so I was at breakfast and back in Club HAL earlier than usual. I didn’t have much time alone up there before the girl came and was ready for me to teach her how to play one of the video games I was playing the other day; it’s call “de blob” and basically you’re kind of a paintbrush and you have to make the world colorful because the evil Commander Blanc has taken over and made everything white or inky. Seems like an easy concept, but to a 4-year old it’s definitely not easy. She would ask me to help, but wouldn’t do what I told her she needed to do (go left slowly, she’d blast off to the right). I sat beside her helping her with that game while I changed to Lego Harry Potter. A few minutes passed before she decided she wanted to play that, and I had to teach her how to play that. It was kind of a trying morning teaching a 4-year-old that doesn’t follow directions how to play video games. She kept asking why it wouldn’t let her go somewhere and I’d have to tell her it’s because she hadn’t finished the task she had to finish before the game let her move on.
Brian came at 12 and I went to find Kayley and Sam for lunch. We had lunch, then went downstairs to get ready for an afternoon in Cadiz!
I thought the plan was to go around and take pictures, shop a bit, then get wifi and dinner. However, we got off the ship and all they wanted to do was shop. I looked around in the stores of course, but they weren’t my kind of stores (expensive and very trendy clothes). So, I spent a few hours waiting as they looked at stuff, tried it on and deliberated about buying it. I was kind of frustrated by the time we found a place with wifi that was open during siesta. My phone doesn’t seem to like wifi much in Spain. It wouldn’t even say the network existed. Thankfully Sam had brought both her phone and her laptop, so she let me use her laptop while she and Kayley chatted with their boyfriends and families on their phones.
Finally we left to walk around for pictures for about 30 minutes before finding a place for dinner. An hour passed and we had gone in quite a few more stores before we decided that we really needed to eat something before we had to get back on the ship. We found a bar that had baguette sandwiches and wifi, and 20 minutes later were headed back to the ship.
I went to the show with Sam at 8, then again at 10. I went to the 10 o’clock show so I could take pictures of the HAL Cats. However, I sat in the wrong place to take good pictures of them. I got some good shots of the cast though. Now I know for the next show to sit in the balcony so I can actually see all of the band.
November 17, 2012: Lisbon day 1
I worked 9-12 today, nothing too exciting happened there, just the girl was there and she was happy to sit beside me as I taught her how to play video games (she doesn’t quite understand the concept of moving the buttons on the remote instead of the actual remote yet).
I had lunch, then went downstairs to change and head out for the rest of the day. There was a really long line at the gangway because it was slightly steep and I happened to go when two tours were getting off and lots of crew.
I ended up with Blake, Glenn, Mack, and Edison and we went walking around Lisbon together. We walked up to a huge cathedral and through the market that was next to it, then we found our way to the main part of town. We wandered around, not really planning on going anyway in particular (except Glenn who needed to main a package, and Edison who was desperate for wifi). We stopped at a café and got a little to eat/drink while Edison went to McDonalds next door for internet. After a while, the four of us got tired of waiting so went off to find him, and he told us to just go on ahead. So, we found the post office for Glenn then went in search of a way to the castle on top of the hill. We went up a lot of stairs and hills to find quite a few dead ends.
Mack left so he could get to work, so Blake, Glenn and I wandered around some ourselves. We found a very small restaurant (now I think it was more of a large kitchen in the woman’s house) and had a little bit to eat since it was dinnertime. We had sangria as well, and the woman left us for a few minutes and returned with fruit for the sangria. She was really nice, there was a concert DVD playing and she checked on us a lot to make sure we were doing okay and didn’t want anything else to eat.
We left and found our way back to the ship somehow – we had followed a lot of winding, narrow back-roads and wound up at the restaurant – because Glenn and Blake had to work, for some reason they had been scheduled to play in the Crow’s Nest, on a night when no one was sure to be there since it was an overnight; it was even called a ‘rehearsal’ on their lists.
I was getting a headache from walking through smoke all day (it seems to me that the Portuguese rival the French in smoking habits) so I took a nap until the band came down and Cass invited me to go out with her, Chris (the drummer) and Robyn (band leader/pianist). We set out and walked, and walked, and walked. I was hungry so we searched for a place with food and live music. We never did manage to find one. We found a kebob shop though and Cass and I got food before we walked some more. We ended up finding a place that let you try different types of wine and port. We talked to the girl that worked there for a bit, I found out that she lived in Provence for a few years, a few years ago. It was getting late so we all just went back to the ship. I really enjoyed hanging out with them, even if we didn’t do much other than just walk around.
I woke up really early this morning for some reason, so I was at breakfast and back in Club HAL earlier than usual. I didn’t have much time alone up there before the girl came and was ready for me to teach her how to play one of the video games I was playing the other day; it’s call “de blob” and basically you’re kind of a paintbrush and you have to make the world colorful because the evil Commander Blanc has taken over and made everything white or inky. Seems like an easy concept, but to a 4-year old it’s definitely not easy. She would ask me to help, but wouldn’t do what I told her she needed to do (go left slowly, she’d blast off to the right). I sat beside her helping her with that game while I changed to Lego Harry Potter. A few minutes passed before she decided she wanted to play that, and I had to teach her how to play that. It was kind of a trying morning teaching a 4-year-old that doesn’t follow directions how to play video games. She kept asking why it wouldn’t let her go somewhere and I’d have to tell her it’s because she hadn’t finished the task she had to finish before the game let her move on.
Brian came at 12 and I went to find Kayley and Sam for lunch. We had lunch, then went downstairs to get ready for an afternoon in Cadiz!
I thought the plan was to go around and take pictures, shop a bit, then get wifi and dinner. However, we got off the ship and all they wanted to do was shop. I looked around in the stores of course, but they weren’t my kind of stores (expensive and very trendy clothes). So, I spent a few hours waiting as they looked at stuff, tried it on and deliberated about buying it. I was kind of frustrated by the time we found a place with wifi that was open during siesta. My phone doesn’t seem to like wifi much in Spain. It wouldn’t even say the network existed. Thankfully Sam had brought both her phone and her laptop, so she let me use her laptop while she and Kayley chatted with their boyfriends and families on their phones.
Finally we left to walk around for pictures for about 30 minutes before finding a place for dinner. An hour passed and we had gone in quite a few more stores before we decided that we really needed to eat something before we had to get back on the ship. We found a bar that had baguette sandwiches and wifi, and 20 minutes later were headed back to the ship.
I went to the show with Sam at 8, then again at 10. I went to the 10 o’clock show so I could take pictures of the HAL Cats. However, I sat in the wrong place to take good pictures of them. I got some good shots of the cast though. Now I know for the next show to sit in the balcony so I can actually see all of the band.
November 17, 2012: Lisbon day 1
I worked 9-12 today, nothing too exciting happened there, just the girl was there and she was happy to sit beside me as I taught her how to play video games (she doesn’t quite understand the concept of moving the buttons on the remote instead of the actual remote yet).
I had lunch, then went downstairs to change and head out for the rest of the day. There was a really long line at the gangway because it was slightly steep and I happened to go when two tours were getting off and lots of crew.
I ended up with Blake, Glenn, Mack, and Edison and we went walking around Lisbon together. We walked up to a huge cathedral and through the market that was next to it, then we found our way to the main part of town. We wandered around, not really planning on going anyway in particular (except Glenn who needed to main a package, and Edison who was desperate for wifi). We stopped at a café and got a little to eat/drink while Edison went to McDonalds next door for internet. After a while, the four of us got tired of waiting so went off to find him, and he told us to just go on ahead. So, we found the post office for Glenn then went in search of a way to the castle on top of the hill. We went up a lot of stairs and hills to find quite a few dead ends.
Mack left so he could get to work, so Blake, Glenn and I wandered around some ourselves. We found a very small restaurant (now I think it was more of a large kitchen in the woman’s house) and had a little bit to eat since it was dinnertime. We had sangria as well, and the woman left us for a few minutes and returned with fruit for the sangria. She was really nice, there was a concert DVD playing and she checked on us a lot to make sure we were doing okay and didn’t want anything else to eat.
We left and found our way back to the ship somehow – we had followed a lot of winding, narrow back-roads and wound up at the restaurant – because Glenn and Blake had to work, for some reason they had been scheduled to play in the Crow’s Nest, on a night when no one was sure to be there since it was an overnight; it was even called a ‘rehearsal’ on their lists.
I was getting a headache from walking through smoke all day (it seems to me that the Portuguese rival the French in smoking habits) so I took a nap until the band came down and Cass invited me to go out with her, Chris (the drummer) and Robyn (band leader/pianist). We set out and walked, and walked, and walked. I was hungry so we searched for a place with food and live music. We never did manage to find one. We found a kebob shop though and Cass and I got food before we walked some more. We ended up finding a place that let you try different types of wine and port. We talked to the girl that worked there for a bit, I found out that she lived in Provence for a few years, a few years ago. It was getting late so we all just went back to the ship. I really enjoyed hanging out with them, even if we didn’t do much other than just walk around.
Friday, November 16, 2012
little time on land
November 13, 2012: Cagliari
I had a great breakfast this morning, I got to sit with Kayley and Cass who had gone up early to help out in the Lido (all the musicians have been asked to since they’re not busy and code red means that the Lido staff is having to do a lot more work). Only a few minutes after I got up to Club HAL, the girl’s aunt brought her up for the day. She sat down to color and I decided to read a book instead of coloring as well. All was well for about 5 minutes, then she started to get upset that she wasn’t with her mom. Her aunt had told me that they were all getting off the ship, so I wasn’t entirely sure what to do. After trying to comfort and explain to her, she still didn’t stop. I decided just to put in a movie, though she claims to hate movies. I put on Tangled and sat down to watch just out of her sight. Slowly I heard the sniffling stop and footsteps slowly making their way towards the chair next to mine. She cheered up after that and we finished the movie just as Brian came by. I ate with them and the siblings were dropped off while we were all eating.
I was surprised when I stood up to leave by the girl running up and hugging me. I couldn’t detach her from my leg for a minute, she almost pulled me over! Then the other girl came and they took turns hugging me bye.
I got off the ship on my own, not really sure what to do with the rest of the day since I was done with work. I walked around the town for thirty minutes, not finding a grocery store (I kind of wanted snack food for the room), or a café that looked like it had wifi, so I gave up and got on the bus back to the ship. The HAL Cats set was cancelled so I hung out with Cass in the room for a while, then watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with Kayley and Samantha until dinner. The three of us went to dinner together, then I went to my room and read until the show at 10. There was an Italian singer performing, he was actually from Napoli so it was very interesting.
November 14, 2012: Sea Day
I had breakfast before work as usual. I played Lego Harry Potter for an hour before the girl showed up. She was content to color as long as I sat next to her; that was fine with me, I was very happy not to have to play Candyland anymore.
After work, Cass was working on RosettaStone in the room, so showed me how it works. What it looks like is a bunch of activities like the online activities that accompany textbooks. She worked on that for a bit, then got bored so went up to the Lido to see if they needed help serving. I stayed in the room for a while before heading up to eat. We’re now out of code red (there’s been no new cases in the last 48 hours), which means that after lunch, we get to serve ourselves again! It’ll make getting food and drink so much quicker.
I took a long time to eat lunch, then went back to the room to go through pictures before Bingo. Something is wrong with my pictures from Napoli. They aren’t coming up on my computer. I’ll have to look more into that later when I have internet. I just can’t open them with the normal photo gallery.
Bingo went quickly, we thankfully had enough people to play and managed to get more money selling cards than we have any other day. There were quite a few new faces too, probably a lot of people that got on in Rome.
Dinner was kind of disappointing, there wasn’t much good to choose from, but at least I could get my own bread and fruit instead of having to wait for one of the two people behind the counter to help everyone in line before coming to me in another line. Samantha was sitting with the rest of the cast and Brian so I joined her, we had our own conversations as they talked about scary movies and weird TV shows. The siblings came up tonight; we listened to music, played video games and colored. The girl asked me to make her another bracelet so I did that while they finished up some coloring pages. I enjoy having just the two of them up there, it’s much calmer and the whole room just seems more relaxed.
November 15, 2012: Gibraltar
I overslept this morning. I intended to get up and have breakfast and hanging out upstairs before work at 12. I ended up waking up with an hour to get ready and head upstairs. It didn’t help that I had a headache. Brian left as soon as I got upstairs so I took the girl to lunch alone. We were there for quite a while because she kept getting distracted doing other stuff instead of eating.
Finally we made it up to Club HAL, my headache had not improved so I happily let her color and finish watching Despicable Me. The other kids got there and the girls played together while the boy played video games, as usual. I think they sensed that I wasn’t feeling my best so they were on pretty good behavior, I was very grateful.
I came back to the room and slept until our room steward came in to clean. There was a bit of confusion because I had just woken up and thought I told him he could go ahead and check to see if we needed anything in the bathroom but he just stood at the door for a few minutes.
I reluctantly went to dinner since I knew I had to eat something and take an advil before going back to work. I sat and made a bracelet until the siblings came. I was feeling mostly better by then so we finished watching Despicable Me (for the second time today) and colored. Then, they started playing with the stuffed animal monkeys they got today. Didn’t give me much to do so I made another bracelet for the girl. I helped them make a fort to protect their children (the monkeys) from whoever it was trying to kidnap them; we had just finished it when their dad came. They want to come up tomorrow morning so we can make a tent since I told them I’d only be there in the morning tomorrow. I guess Brian doesn’t let them do stuff like that.
I had a great breakfast this morning, I got to sit with Kayley and Cass who had gone up early to help out in the Lido (all the musicians have been asked to since they’re not busy and code red means that the Lido staff is having to do a lot more work). Only a few minutes after I got up to Club HAL, the girl’s aunt brought her up for the day. She sat down to color and I decided to read a book instead of coloring as well. All was well for about 5 minutes, then she started to get upset that she wasn’t with her mom. Her aunt had told me that they were all getting off the ship, so I wasn’t entirely sure what to do. After trying to comfort and explain to her, she still didn’t stop. I decided just to put in a movie, though she claims to hate movies. I put on Tangled and sat down to watch just out of her sight. Slowly I heard the sniffling stop and footsteps slowly making their way towards the chair next to mine. She cheered up after that and we finished the movie just as Brian came by. I ate with them and the siblings were dropped off while we were all eating.
I was surprised when I stood up to leave by the girl running up and hugging me. I couldn’t detach her from my leg for a minute, she almost pulled me over! Then the other girl came and they took turns hugging me bye.
I got off the ship on my own, not really sure what to do with the rest of the day since I was done with work. I walked around the town for thirty minutes, not finding a grocery store (I kind of wanted snack food for the room), or a café that looked like it had wifi, so I gave up and got on the bus back to the ship. The HAL Cats set was cancelled so I hung out with Cass in the room for a while, then watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with Kayley and Samantha until dinner. The three of us went to dinner together, then I went to my room and read until the show at 10. There was an Italian singer performing, he was actually from Napoli so it was very interesting.
November 14, 2012: Sea Day
I had breakfast before work as usual. I played Lego Harry Potter for an hour before the girl showed up. She was content to color as long as I sat next to her; that was fine with me, I was very happy not to have to play Candyland anymore.
After work, Cass was working on RosettaStone in the room, so showed me how it works. What it looks like is a bunch of activities like the online activities that accompany textbooks. She worked on that for a bit, then got bored so went up to the Lido to see if they needed help serving. I stayed in the room for a while before heading up to eat. We’re now out of code red (there’s been no new cases in the last 48 hours), which means that after lunch, we get to serve ourselves again! It’ll make getting food and drink so much quicker.
I took a long time to eat lunch, then went back to the room to go through pictures before Bingo. Something is wrong with my pictures from Napoli. They aren’t coming up on my computer. I’ll have to look more into that later when I have internet. I just can’t open them with the normal photo gallery.
Bingo went quickly, we thankfully had enough people to play and managed to get more money selling cards than we have any other day. There were quite a few new faces too, probably a lot of people that got on in Rome.
Dinner was kind of disappointing, there wasn’t much good to choose from, but at least I could get my own bread and fruit instead of having to wait for one of the two people behind the counter to help everyone in line before coming to me in another line. Samantha was sitting with the rest of the cast and Brian so I joined her, we had our own conversations as they talked about scary movies and weird TV shows. The siblings came up tonight; we listened to music, played video games and colored. The girl asked me to make her another bracelet so I did that while they finished up some coloring pages. I enjoy having just the two of them up there, it’s much calmer and the whole room just seems more relaxed.
November 15, 2012: Gibraltar
I overslept this morning. I intended to get up and have breakfast and hanging out upstairs before work at 12. I ended up waking up with an hour to get ready and head upstairs. It didn’t help that I had a headache. Brian left as soon as I got upstairs so I took the girl to lunch alone. We were there for quite a while because she kept getting distracted doing other stuff instead of eating.
Finally we made it up to Club HAL, my headache had not improved so I happily let her color and finish watching Despicable Me. The other kids got there and the girls played together while the boy played video games, as usual. I think they sensed that I wasn’t feeling my best so they were on pretty good behavior, I was very grateful.
I came back to the room and slept until our room steward came in to clean. There was a bit of confusion because I had just woken up and thought I told him he could go ahead and check to see if we needed anything in the bathroom but he just stood at the door for a few minutes.
I reluctantly went to dinner since I knew I had to eat something and take an advil before going back to work. I sat and made a bracelet until the siblings came. I was feeling mostly better by then so we finished watching Despicable Me (for the second time today) and colored. Then, they started playing with the stuffed animal monkeys they got today. Didn’t give me much to do so I made another bracelet for the girl. I helped them make a fort to protect their children (the monkeys) from whoever it was trying to kidnap them; we had just finished it when their dad came. They want to come up tomorrow morning so we can make a tent since I told them I’d only be there in the morning tomorrow. I guess Brian doesn’t let them do stuff like that.
naples italy
November 11, 2012: Naples day 1
I worked 9-12 this morning. It was a quick breakfast then straight up to Club HAL. I wasn’t there long when the girl came up. After a few minutes deliberation with her grandmother, she decided that she didn’t want to stay in Club HAL after all. So, they left. A few minutes later, she comes back up with her mom who tried very hard to convince her to stay instead of walking around all day with the rest of them. The girl wasn’t having it, she wanted to spend the day walking. So, I just read until Brian came.
Kayley and I had talked about going out together, so I knocked on her door as soon as I got back to the room and changed. We had to wait a few minutes because she had invited Jim to come along. We were going to find the pizza place Cass told us about (that was in the book/movie “Eat Pray Love”). We found Blake as he was coming back to the ship so invited him to come as well. We ended up just going to a pizza place close to the ship, Jim had been there before and since we didn’t really know where the other one was, this seemed like a better option. We all had different kinds of pizza and we all tried each others. After a very long lunch, Jim took us to a gelato place he said was the best he’d ever had. We spent a long time looking for it, but at least we were walking along pretty Italian streets.
After gelato, we wandered around for a little bit before the others needed to get back. I wanted to continue exploring so we parted ways. I walked around on my own for a while and didn’t really see much. I took a turn and walked down the street for a while before I discovered that there wasn’t really a lot of options off of that street, so I followed it and turned to the next street when I finally got to it. A few streets later, I saw water. There were no boats or ships in sight and I was very confused about where I could have ended up. I walked along the water in generally the direction I had come from and eventually saw the marina and the port.
I got back on the ship in plenty of time to change and get to church service on time. I didn’t know the songs well this week, but I still really enjoyed them. The pastor talked about how God is our vanguard and rearguard, preparing the way for us and protecting us. It was a really good service.
After church, I went back out for internet. I bought a Fanta in the terminal and got the internet code. So, I spent the next few hours catching up on posting these blogs, uploading pictures, and talking to Mom!
I thought about going back out with groups, but I didn’t see a lot to do in Napoli, so I stayed on the ship. I hung out in the OB for a bit but there weren’t many people there, so I went to my room. I wasn’t at all ready to sleep so I wasn’t sure what to do. Luckily, Cass got back soon after and we went to the OB and hung out with the rest of the band.
November 12, 2012: Naples day 2
I woke up really early this morning to go out with Kayley and Samantha (one of the dancers) before I had to work at 12. We had decided to go to Pompeii for a few hours. We got off and had planned on taking the train, but we reconsidered when we found out that it would be at least an hour to get there by train (bus to train station, then take train to the city, then take a bus/taxi to the ruins). We were convinced to take a taxi there, a 30 minute drive. It was expensive, but much better for times sake. We arrived at the ruins at 7:50 and had to be back at the taxi at 9:50 (a two-hour wait to explore was part of the taxi price). However, after we got a quick breakfast (rather, hot chocolate for me and coffee for the other two), we discovered that the ruins didn’t open until 8:30.
The time came and quite a few people were waiting around the entrance. We talked to a couple from the US for a few minutes until their tour guide talked to someone cleaning through the fence. The site wasn’t open because all the workers were on strike. The tour guide was helpful; he called our taxi driver for us and explained about the strike and how we wanted to leave early. We got a slight discount because we only were there for an hour, but we were kind of upset that the taxi driver wasn’t a little bit more understanding; why didn’t any of them tell us before we left that the site didn’t open until 8:30, we spent half an hour waiting for it to open! After what seemed like a really long ride back, Kayley and Samantha went to explore the city a bit and I went to get internet in the terminal since I had some extra time I wasn’t expecting. Daniel was sitting waiting for some of the other spa people to get off the ship so I sat with him for a bit and we talked as I tried to get online. It wasn’t working so I gave up and decided to get back on the ship and take a nap instead.
I slept until work, the girl was the only one there so I took her to lunch and actually managed to make her eat over half her hot dog. Rik joined us for a little bit of our lunch, we’re going to be in code red for another 48 hours because someone else got sick. Great. As we got back from lunch, the other kids got there, so we spent the afternoon coloring, playing Lego Harry Potter, and watching the Incredibles and Rango.
After work, I was tired so I took another nap until dinner with Kayley and Samantha. The food seems to be getting worse now that we’re in code red. You’d think they’d be more careful about cooking food long enough with people getting sick.
I read and played cards for an hour in Club HAL, then just as I started to play Lego Harry Potter, the siblings dad came up with the girl. So, we played Lego Harry Potter for a while, then colored then went back to the game. Her brother came up later and I gave him my controller and watched as they played. It was a very calm night, I enjoyed it! After they left, I had to SuperSan. I did it pretty thoroughly; even though Brian said just wipe down the stuff we use, I wiped down all the seats, all the tables, the xbox stations and everything else.
I worked 9-12 this morning. It was a quick breakfast then straight up to Club HAL. I wasn’t there long when the girl came up. After a few minutes deliberation with her grandmother, she decided that she didn’t want to stay in Club HAL after all. So, they left. A few minutes later, she comes back up with her mom who tried very hard to convince her to stay instead of walking around all day with the rest of them. The girl wasn’t having it, she wanted to spend the day walking. So, I just read until Brian came.
Kayley and I had talked about going out together, so I knocked on her door as soon as I got back to the room and changed. We had to wait a few minutes because she had invited Jim to come along. We were going to find the pizza place Cass told us about (that was in the book/movie “Eat Pray Love”). We found Blake as he was coming back to the ship so invited him to come as well. We ended up just going to a pizza place close to the ship, Jim had been there before and since we didn’t really know where the other one was, this seemed like a better option. We all had different kinds of pizza and we all tried each others. After a very long lunch, Jim took us to a gelato place he said was the best he’d ever had. We spent a long time looking for it, but at least we were walking along pretty Italian streets.
After gelato, we wandered around for a little bit before the others needed to get back. I wanted to continue exploring so we parted ways. I walked around on my own for a while and didn’t really see much. I took a turn and walked down the street for a while before I discovered that there wasn’t really a lot of options off of that street, so I followed it and turned to the next street when I finally got to it. A few streets later, I saw water. There were no boats or ships in sight and I was very confused about where I could have ended up. I walked along the water in generally the direction I had come from and eventually saw the marina and the port.
I got back on the ship in plenty of time to change and get to church service on time. I didn’t know the songs well this week, but I still really enjoyed them. The pastor talked about how God is our vanguard and rearguard, preparing the way for us and protecting us. It was a really good service.
After church, I went back out for internet. I bought a Fanta in the terminal and got the internet code. So, I spent the next few hours catching up on posting these blogs, uploading pictures, and talking to Mom!
I thought about going back out with groups, but I didn’t see a lot to do in Napoli, so I stayed on the ship. I hung out in the OB for a bit but there weren’t many people there, so I went to my room. I wasn’t at all ready to sleep so I wasn’t sure what to do. Luckily, Cass got back soon after and we went to the OB and hung out with the rest of the band.
November 12, 2012: Naples day 2
I woke up really early this morning to go out with Kayley and Samantha (one of the dancers) before I had to work at 12. We had decided to go to Pompeii for a few hours. We got off and had planned on taking the train, but we reconsidered when we found out that it would be at least an hour to get there by train (bus to train station, then take train to the city, then take a bus/taxi to the ruins). We were convinced to take a taxi there, a 30 minute drive. It was expensive, but much better for times sake. We arrived at the ruins at 7:50 and had to be back at the taxi at 9:50 (a two-hour wait to explore was part of the taxi price). However, after we got a quick breakfast (rather, hot chocolate for me and coffee for the other two), we discovered that the ruins didn’t open until 8:30.
The time came and quite a few people were waiting around the entrance. We talked to a couple from the US for a few minutes until their tour guide talked to someone cleaning through the fence. The site wasn’t open because all the workers were on strike. The tour guide was helpful; he called our taxi driver for us and explained about the strike and how we wanted to leave early. We got a slight discount because we only were there for an hour, but we were kind of upset that the taxi driver wasn’t a little bit more understanding; why didn’t any of them tell us before we left that the site didn’t open until 8:30, we spent half an hour waiting for it to open! After what seemed like a really long ride back, Kayley and Samantha went to explore the city a bit and I went to get internet in the terminal since I had some extra time I wasn’t expecting. Daniel was sitting waiting for some of the other spa people to get off the ship so I sat with him for a bit and we talked as I tried to get online. It wasn’t working so I gave up and decided to get back on the ship and take a nap instead.
I slept until work, the girl was the only one there so I took her to lunch and actually managed to make her eat over half her hot dog. Rik joined us for a little bit of our lunch, we’re going to be in code red for another 48 hours because someone else got sick. Great. As we got back from lunch, the other kids got there, so we spent the afternoon coloring, playing Lego Harry Potter, and watching the Incredibles and Rango.
After work, I was tired so I took another nap until dinner with Kayley and Samantha. The food seems to be getting worse now that we’re in code red. You’d think they’d be more careful about cooking food long enough with people getting sick.
I read and played cards for an hour in Club HAL, then just as I started to play Lego Harry Potter, the siblings dad came up with the girl. So, we played Lego Harry Potter for a while, then colored then went back to the game. Her brother came up later and I gave him my controller and watched as they played. It was a very calm night, I enjoyed it! After they left, I had to SuperSan. I did it pretty thoroughly; even though Brian said just wipe down the stuff we use, I wiped down all the seats, all the tables, the xbox stations and everything else.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
ah, I've missed getting internet with my computer.
November 8, 2012: Palma de Mallorca
After the boat drill, I only had an hour before work so I continued to look through my pictures. I worked all afternoon, with all three kids there. After work, I ended up being able to get off the ship for an hour. Edison and I ended up at McDonalds and just got internet (sadly, I had decided not to take my computer because everyone said it was a long walk to anywhere; it was only 10 minutes away).
I went back to work and watched Racing Stripes with the siblings. Not a very eventful day overall.
November 9, 2012: Sea Day
Again, it was kind of a boring day. I only worked from 1 to 4 and had Bingo at 3:45. All the kids were in Club HAL so we colored mostly. The girls are starting to get frustrated with each other because one is perfectly content doing one activity for a while whereas the other always wants to play house or another game instead of watching a movie or coloring. “You’re not being nice to me” has suddenly become a popular saying in Club HAL. Even snacktime is an ordeal because one spends the time talking instead of eating which means we all have to wait for her to finish before going back upstairs to finish what we were doing before. So, they’re all getting frustrated with one another. I knew this would happen though, a small group of kids cooped up together for over a month, there was sure to be issues.
I arrived late to Bingo, so I didn’t actually have to sell any cards, I just did the math and figured out the prizes for the day. I got back to the room and found out from Cass that we’re nearly at code red, which means that a lot of people on the ship are sick, so we have to take extra measures to stay healthy: use an unhealthy amount of hand sanitizer a day (the rule I definitely don’t agree with, they practically force it on you every time you move from room to room), the Lido is no longer self-service, we have to SuperSan (not sure how often). Brian told me at dinner that Club HAL could potentially be closed in code red. I really hope that doesn’t happen because I’d be even more bored than I am now. Of course, security won’t be that bad; apparently they miss me on gangway, they tell me every time I see them.
November 10, 2012: Civitavecchia
I slept in because I didn’t work until 12. Only the 4-year-old was there so I took her to lunch, though Brian said her mom was supposed to pick her up an hour before I got there to take her to lunch. She didn’t eat much. We went up to Club HAL for a little bit before she was hungry again, so I took her down for chocolate chip cookies; she ended up not eating those because they had nuts in them and she doesn’t like nuts. After a little bit more time in Club HAL, she wanted jello, so we went downstairs and she actually ate some jello cups. After that, we went outside for about an hour (me in my bright orange parka to protect me from the wind) and played ‘soccer.’ At least she got some of that energy out before we went back to color/play Candyland.
I left Club HAL and saw Jim in the Lido, so I talked to him for a while before coming downstairs to rest until dinner. Cass came back and told me a little about her trip to Rome before she had to go to the Passenger drill.
I worked again at 7. It was just the siblings so we colored and watched Rango. It was a very calm night, especially after the afternoon. I found out that we’re not going to Sorrento anymore because it’s a tender port and apparently it’s too windy to tender safely, so we’re having an overnight in Naples instead.
After the boat drill, I only had an hour before work so I continued to look through my pictures. I worked all afternoon, with all three kids there. After work, I ended up being able to get off the ship for an hour. Edison and I ended up at McDonalds and just got internet (sadly, I had decided not to take my computer because everyone said it was a long walk to anywhere; it was only 10 minutes away).
I went back to work and watched Racing Stripes with the siblings. Not a very eventful day overall.
November 9, 2012: Sea Day
Again, it was kind of a boring day. I only worked from 1 to 4 and had Bingo at 3:45. All the kids were in Club HAL so we colored mostly. The girls are starting to get frustrated with each other because one is perfectly content doing one activity for a while whereas the other always wants to play house or another game instead of watching a movie or coloring. “You’re not being nice to me” has suddenly become a popular saying in Club HAL. Even snacktime is an ordeal because one spends the time talking instead of eating which means we all have to wait for her to finish before going back upstairs to finish what we were doing before. So, they’re all getting frustrated with one another. I knew this would happen though, a small group of kids cooped up together for over a month, there was sure to be issues.
I arrived late to Bingo, so I didn’t actually have to sell any cards, I just did the math and figured out the prizes for the day. I got back to the room and found out from Cass that we’re nearly at code red, which means that a lot of people on the ship are sick, so we have to take extra measures to stay healthy: use an unhealthy amount of hand sanitizer a day (the rule I definitely don’t agree with, they practically force it on you every time you move from room to room), the Lido is no longer self-service, we have to SuperSan (not sure how often). Brian told me at dinner that Club HAL could potentially be closed in code red. I really hope that doesn’t happen because I’d be even more bored than I am now. Of course, security won’t be that bad; apparently they miss me on gangway, they tell me every time I see them.
November 10, 2012: Civitavecchia
I slept in because I didn’t work until 12. Only the 4-year-old was there so I took her to lunch, though Brian said her mom was supposed to pick her up an hour before I got there to take her to lunch. She didn’t eat much. We went up to Club HAL for a little bit before she was hungry again, so I took her down for chocolate chip cookies; she ended up not eating those because they had nuts in them and she doesn’t like nuts. After a little bit more time in Club HAL, she wanted jello, so we went downstairs and she actually ate some jello cups. After that, we went outside for about an hour (me in my bright orange parka to protect me from the wind) and played ‘soccer.’ At least she got some of that energy out before we went back to color/play Candyland.
I left Club HAL and saw Jim in the Lido, so I talked to him for a while before coming downstairs to rest until dinner. Cass came back and told me a little about her trip to Rome before she had to go to the Passenger drill.
I worked again at 7. It was just the siblings so we colored and watched Rango. It was a very calm night, especially after the afternoon. I found out that we’re not going to Sorrento anymore because it’s a tender port and apparently it’s too windy to tender safely, so we’re having an overnight in Naples instead.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
barcelona
November 7, 2012: Barcelona day 2
I wish I could have slept more, but I was glad to get breakfast before work. I was fine for a while at work; I just read the book Daniel’s lending me. But after an hour of just sitting there in the cold, I started to fall asleep. The girl came up with her aunt, but then decided she’d rather go with her family so they left. A few minutes later she came back up with her mom and her mom tried to convince her to stay but she really wanted to walk around with her family all day. After that, I did end up falling asleep on the couch for a few minutes a few times. I knew the other kids weren’t coming up so I was basically just waiting for Brian to relieve me. He came a little before twelve and we ate lunch together before I got off the ship.
I got off the ship and took the shuttle bus to the city because I didn’t want to walk the 20-30 minutes alone. I walked down the main street where the shuttle dropped us off and kept walking. I saw a few things I wanted to look at, but didn’t stop because I had plenty of time to come back later. I did stop for pictures often though. After about 45 minutes of walking, I saw one of the hop on-hop off bus tours. Ginger had told me they were really good, so I got on this one (it was around 2). It went back down the street where I had just come from and stayed about 15 minutes at the fountain I’d taken quite a few pictures at. Finally, we moved on. I decided just to stay on the bus unless something was really, really interesting because I was starting to get worried about time (after that long stop at the fountain). It was a long tour just riding it.
I ended up not getting off the bus at all. I did see the places from the bus, hear about them thanks to the headphones, and read about them in the brochure. I was really getting anxious about time when it took us 20 minutes to get from one stop to the next. With only a few stops left, I was really worried because it was already 4 and I had to be back on the ship by 5:30; it was a 20 minute ride to the port and when I had left, there was a very long line to go through security, so I was hoping to be at least at the port by 4:45. I prayed the whole time, trusting that I’d get back on time.
Finally we got back to the big fountains (it was closer to Las Ramblas, which was down the street from the shuttle) and I walked quickly down to the shuttles, sadly I was too worried about time to stop and see the things I had planned on seeing (the market mainly). When I arrived at the monument to Christopher Columbus (that’s where the shuttle dropped us off), I didn’t see the shuttle. Really worried now, I got a taxi since there were a lot waiting there. That was an experience because he didn’t speak English well and I’d never gotten a taxi by myself before. I was really praying hard by that point, nervous about taking a taxi alone; I was so nervous I almost considered walking the 20-30 minutes back to the ship. At first, he thought I wanted to go to the airport, but finally I got across that I meant the port at the water, with ships, so we got on the right track. That didn’t help my nerves though. I made it to the terminal fine and there was no line at security so I was on the ship by 5, thank goodness.
I was tired and was getting a really bad headache, so when I got back to the room, I immediately climbed into bed. I looked through some of my pictures for a bit, but then fell asleep. I didn’t wake up until around 8:30. Cass was back from her deck set and dinner and was getting ready for their set in the Crow’s Nest. Apparently the room steward had been in and vaccumned and cleaned while I’d been asleep, she had walked in and noticed my key on the desk and my curtain closed so told him but he was nearly done anyway. I can’t believe I slept through that.
I had also slept through dinner, so I ordered room service hoping food would help me feel better. It did a little bit, but my head was still hurting so I went back to sleep almost as soon as I finished. I did wake up when Cass came back though, she told me about their set and I told her a little about my day before I fell asleep again.
November 8, 2012: Palma de Mallorca
I woke up and got ready this morning because I knew we had a boat drill so I assumed we had a fire drill beforehand (since we always do). However, I never heard the alarm so I sat going through all my pictures from yesterday waiting for the boat drill.
I wish I could have slept more, but I was glad to get breakfast before work. I was fine for a while at work; I just read the book Daniel’s lending me. But after an hour of just sitting there in the cold, I started to fall asleep. The girl came up with her aunt, but then decided she’d rather go with her family so they left. A few minutes later she came back up with her mom and her mom tried to convince her to stay but she really wanted to walk around with her family all day. After that, I did end up falling asleep on the couch for a few minutes a few times. I knew the other kids weren’t coming up so I was basically just waiting for Brian to relieve me. He came a little before twelve and we ate lunch together before I got off the ship.
I got off the ship and took the shuttle bus to the city because I didn’t want to walk the 20-30 minutes alone. I walked down the main street where the shuttle dropped us off and kept walking. I saw a few things I wanted to look at, but didn’t stop because I had plenty of time to come back later. I did stop for pictures often though. After about 45 minutes of walking, I saw one of the hop on-hop off bus tours. Ginger had told me they were really good, so I got on this one (it was around 2). It went back down the street where I had just come from and stayed about 15 minutes at the fountain I’d taken quite a few pictures at. Finally, we moved on. I decided just to stay on the bus unless something was really, really interesting because I was starting to get worried about time (after that long stop at the fountain). It was a long tour just riding it.
I ended up not getting off the bus at all. I did see the places from the bus, hear about them thanks to the headphones, and read about them in the brochure. I was really getting anxious about time when it took us 20 minutes to get from one stop to the next. With only a few stops left, I was really worried because it was already 4 and I had to be back on the ship by 5:30; it was a 20 minute ride to the port and when I had left, there was a very long line to go through security, so I was hoping to be at least at the port by 4:45. I prayed the whole time, trusting that I’d get back on time.
Finally we got back to the big fountains (it was closer to Las Ramblas, which was down the street from the shuttle) and I walked quickly down to the shuttles, sadly I was too worried about time to stop and see the things I had planned on seeing (the market mainly). When I arrived at the monument to Christopher Columbus (that’s where the shuttle dropped us off), I didn’t see the shuttle. Really worried now, I got a taxi since there were a lot waiting there. That was an experience because he didn’t speak English well and I’d never gotten a taxi by myself before. I was really praying hard by that point, nervous about taking a taxi alone; I was so nervous I almost considered walking the 20-30 minutes back to the ship. At first, he thought I wanted to go to the airport, but finally I got across that I meant the port at the water, with ships, so we got on the right track. That didn’t help my nerves though. I made it to the terminal fine and there was no line at security so I was on the ship by 5, thank goodness.
I was tired and was getting a really bad headache, so when I got back to the room, I immediately climbed into bed. I looked through some of my pictures for a bit, but then fell asleep. I didn’t wake up until around 8:30. Cass was back from her deck set and dinner and was getting ready for their set in the Crow’s Nest. Apparently the room steward had been in and vaccumned and cleaned while I’d been asleep, she had walked in and noticed my key on the desk and my curtain closed so told him but he was nearly done anyway. I can’t believe I slept through that.
I had also slept through dinner, so I ordered room service hoping food would help me feel better. It did a little bit, but my head was still hurting so I went back to sleep almost as soon as I finished. I did wake up when Cass came back though, she told me about their set and I told her a little about my day before I fell asleep again.
November 8, 2012: Palma de Mallorca
I woke up and got ready this morning because I knew we had a boat drill so I assumed we had a fire drill beforehand (since we always do). However, I never heard the alarm so I sat going through all my pictures from yesterday waiting for the boat drill.
Spain
November 5, 2012: Almeria, Spain
We’re on mainland Europe now, finally! I worked from 9-12 today. All the kids came up at the same time. They were content to color so I sketched out a design of something I could color and let them work on their coloring pages. They only finished two each before Brian came to take over for the afternoon. I met Daniel in line for food and sat with him and some of the spa girls for lunch before I went downstairs to change and go out with Cass, Glenn, Blake and Edison.
We went out and explored all afternoon. We walked around, found a cathedral, a fort and a few more churches and ended up on what seemed to be the main street with lots of shopping and cafés. The band had to get back to play by the pool so Edison and I stayed with Maria (from the cast), Mack and Jim who we had just found at a café. We moved cafes because we were having trouble connecting to the internet and Jim had been to one earlier in the day that had a really good connection. We found it and stayed there for a while, allowing me enough time to check my emails, check facebook, post the last three blogs and talk to Mom for just a few minutes.
After I got back on the ship, I got ready to go to the Lido pool to hear the HAL Cats play, but saw Kayley’s door open on the way open. Turns out that they couldn’t play because it started raining. Kayley and I looked through our pictures from the day and watched the rest of Harry Potter 4 until dinner.
After a long dinner with some of the cast members, I came back down to the room and went through my pictures and did laundry.
November 6, 2012: sea morning/Barcelona day 1
I managed to wake up early and be ready and get breakfast before they closed on a day when I didn’t work. It was a rough start, but at least I made it! I went back to sleep after breakfast, since I hadn’t slept well last night, but was awoken by a call only 20 minutes later, it was the DJ letting me know that we had Bingo this morning and if I could, come help (basically as soon as I could get ready would be great). So, I went up there, but there weren’t enough people to play so he canceled it for the day. So, only 10 minutes later I went back to sleep, but then had to get up for lunch because I thought I worked at 12. We ended up having a sea day schedule so I didn’t have to be there until 1. I had a leisurely lunch with some of the girls from the spa before going up to work. I read until the girl came up and we played Candyland and colored.
The other kids came up and we watched Toy Story 3 and colored all afternoon. Their parents came up again an hour before close; they had just found out that they had a tour at 4:30 and were wondering if they could pay me for after-hours care. I was fine with it so I just stayed 3 hours late with them, taking them for supper and watching movies/coloring the whole time. The other girl doesn’t come up at night anymore, so once they picked the kids up after the tour, I was free for the night!
I waited for Cass and she took a group of us out to a place she had been on her last overnight in Barcelona. We had a great time, just hanging out, it was an interesting group: Cass, me, Kayley, Brandi, Jim, Jim’s daughter, Ginger and Ron the cellar master. Kayley brought her new camera so she took a lot of pictures. The Black Sheep (the name of the place Cass took us) kind of reminded me of the Wohoo in Aix, it had the same cave-y feel, but it was a much bigger place.
We’re on mainland Europe now, finally! I worked from 9-12 today. All the kids came up at the same time. They were content to color so I sketched out a design of something I could color and let them work on their coloring pages. They only finished two each before Brian came to take over for the afternoon. I met Daniel in line for food and sat with him and some of the spa girls for lunch before I went downstairs to change and go out with Cass, Glenn, Blake and Edison.
We went out and explored all afternoon. We walked around, found a cathedral, a fort and a few more churches and ended up on what seemed to be the main street with lots of shopping and cafés. The band had to get back to play by the pool so Edison and I stayed with Maria (from the cast), Mack and Jim who we had just found at a café. We moved cafes because we were having trouble connecting to the internet and Jim had been to one earlier in the day that had a really good connection. We found it and stayed there for a while, allowing me enough time to check my emails, check facebook, post the last three blogs and talk to Mom for just a few minutes.
After I got back on the ship, I got ready to go to the Lido pool to hear the HAL Cats play, but saw Kayley’s door open on the way open. Turns out that they couldn’t play because it started raining. Kayley and I looked through our pictures from the day and watched the rest of Harry Potter 4 until dinner.
After a long dinner with some of the cast members, I came back down to the room and went through my pictures and did laundry.
November 6, 2012: sea morning/Barcelona day 1
I managed to wake up early and be ready and get breakfast before they closed on a day when I didn’t work. It was a rough start, but at least I made it! I went back to sleep after breakfast, since I hadn’t slept well last night, but was awoken by a call only 20 minutes later, it was the DJ letting me know that we had Bingo this morning and if I could, come help (basically as soon as I could get ready would be great). So, I went up there, but there weren’t enough people to play so he canceled it for the day. So, only 10 minutes later I went back to sleep, but then had to get up for lunch because I thought I worked at 12. We ended up having a sea day schedule so I didn’t have to be there until 1. I had a leisurely lunch with some of the girls from the spa before going up to work. I read until the girl came up and we played Candyland and colored.
The other kids came up and we watched Toy Story 3 and colored all afternoon. Their parents came up again an hour before close; they had just found out that they had a tour at 4:30 and were wondering if they could pay me for after-hours care. I was fine with it so I just stayed 3 hours late with them, taking them for supper and watching movies/coloring the whole time. The other girl doesn’t come up at night anymore, so once they picked the kids up after the tour, I was free for the night!
I waited for Cass and she took a group of us out to a place she had been on her last overnight in Barcelona. We had a great time, just hanging out, it was an interesting group: Cass, me, Kayley, Brandi, Jim, Jim’s daughter, Ginger and Ron the cellar master. Kayley brought her new camera so she took a lot of pictures. The Black Sheep (the name of the place Cass took us) kind of reminded me of the Wohoo in Aix, it had the same cave-y feel, but it was a much bigger place.
Monday, November 5, 2012
morrocco
November 3, 2012: Casablanca
I went out with Kayley, Edison and the Adagio strings this morning, just for an hour though since we left late and I had to be back by 12 for work. We walked for about 45 minutes into the city and then Kayley, Edison and I took a taxi back because there wasn’t much to see and I was worried about getting back in time.
When I got up to work, the siblings were there, they had had a late breakfast so weren’t ready for lunch yet, so Brian let me get lunch and bring it up to eat. He actually stayed up there for a while too, even brought lunch up there. It was the first time we’ve both been working since the first day of this cruise.
The girl just colored and watched the movie Brian had put in for her, and I helped the boy with the video game again. Not long after, the other girl came in and the two girls played house together (the sibling girl wasn’t too happy about it, every time the other girl is there she wants them to play house). The siblings finally got hungry so we went down for pizza and dessert. By the time we got back upstairs, it was nearly time for them to leave.
Everyone I knew was off the ship for the afternoon, so I hung out in my room after work, Cass did come back and we talked and looked through some of her pictures until dinner. I worked again after dinner, I got up there at 7 and read for a while, talking to the people that came in to clean. The kids hadn’t shown up by 9, so I left and went down to the room. I met Bea in the spa and talked to her for a while since she was alone there until 10. I got distracted when I got to my room because I started to look though all my pictures. When Cass got back from the show I drew her in on it as well and kept showing her some of my old pictures. Edison came by and I showed him some of the landscape and flower pictures I’ve taken and like the most. Finally, his room service arrived (he occasionally asks Kayley or me to order room service since he doesn’t have that privilege) so he left.
November 4, 2012: Tangier
It was an interesting morning. My phone apparently decided to follow Daylight Savings Time (I was sure I had it set not to) so it was an hour behind, problematic because it is my alarm clock. Good thing I didn’t have to work early this morning because I got up around 10.
The girl was the only one there when I got to work, so we finished the game of Candyland she and Brian had been playing and played two more before I decided to go down for lunch. She didn’t want to eat, so ate a snack instead of a full lunch. As we were leaving, we saw the other kids and their mom heading upstairs so they got signed in and we all went upstairs. The girls colored the whole time while the boy asked for my help with Lego Star Wars again. We did manage to figure out how to get past two of the levels we got stuck on yesterday! Towards the end of the afternoon, we stopped playing the game and all sat down to color until their parents came to pick them up. The girls surprisingly took their time coloring the pages so they’d only finished a few before they left.
I found Kayley in the Lido so sat with her and the rest of the band until 5 when Kayley, Glenn and I went to a church service on the ship. Apparently this has been happening every Sunday since this cruise started. There were about 30 people there, and the pastor’s wife played a keyboard to accompany the hymns (HYMNS!!). I really enjoyed the service; I wish I’d known about it sooner though so I could’ve been there the last few weeks. The sermon was on Job, and our reactions to suffering. He talked about Elizabeth Elliot (the women who went to the village to witness to the village that killed her husband; I first heard about her at the Barn, but had forgotten her name) and had a great quote about how an oyster gets a painful grain of sand inside of it, and slowly over time transforms it into a beautiful pearl. I really like that analogy, transforming our suffering, using it to better something. I’m definitely going to be there next week!
I went straight from the service to dinner, then straight from dinner to work. The siblings came in after a few minutes and the girl went straight to the coloring pages. The boy wasn’t sure what to do at first, then decided on watching Toy Story 3 and coloring. So, that’s what we did all evening, watched a movie and colored. I sharpened all the colored pencils (most of them were flat or broken because they like to color hard with them sometimes). There were only 20 minutes left after the movie ended, so we watched the extra features on Toy Story until their dad came to pick them up.
I went out with Kayley, Edison and the Adagio strings this morning, just for an hour though since we left late and I had to be back by 12 for work. We walked for about 45 minutes into the city and then Kayley, Edison and I took a taxi back because there wasn’t much to see and I was worried about getting back in time.
When I got up to work, the siblings were there, they had had a late breakfast so weren’t ready for lunch yet, so Brian let me get lunch and bring it up to eat. He actually stayed up there for a while too, even brought lunch up there. It was the first time we’ve both been working since the first day of this cruise.
The girl just colored and watched the movie Brian had put in for her, and I helped the boy with the video game again. Not long after, the other girl came in and the two girls played house together (the sibling girl wasn’t too happy about it, every time the other girl is there she wants them to play house). The siblings finally got hungry so we went down for pizza and dessert. By the time we got back upstairs, it was nearly time for them to leave.
Everyone I knew was off the ship for the afternoon, so I hung out in my room after work, Cass did come back and we talked and looked through some of her pictures until dinner. I worked again after dinner, I got up there at 7 and read for a while, talking to the people that came in to clean. The kids hadn’t shown up by 9, so I left and went down to the room. I met Bea in the spa and talked to her for a while since she was alone there until 10. I got distracted when I got to my room because I started to look though all my pictures. When Cass got back from the show I drew her in on it as well and kept showing her some of my old pictures. Edison came by and I showed him some of the landscape and flower pictures I’ve taken and like the most. Finally, his room service arrived (he occasionally asks Kayley or me to order room service since he doesn’t have that privilege) so he left.
November 4, 2012: Tangier
It was an interesting morning. My phone apparently decided to follow Daylight Savings Time (I was sure I had it set not to) so it was an hour behind, problematic because it is my alarm clock. Good thing I didn’t have to work early this morning because I got up around 10.
The girl was the only one there when I got to work, so we finished the game of Candyland she and Brian had been playing and played two more before I decided to go down for lunch. She didn’t want to eat, so ate a snack instead of a full lunch. As we were leaving, we saw the other kids and their mom heading upstairs so they got signed in and we all went upstairs. The girls colored the whole time while the boy asked for my help with Lego Star Wars again. We did manage to figure out how to get past two of the levels we got stuck on yesterday! Towards the end of the afternoon, we stopped playing the game and all sat down to color until their parents came to pick them up. The girls surprisingly took their time coloring the pages so they’d only finished a few before they left.
I found Kayley in the Lido so sat with her and the rest of the band until 5 when Kayley, Glenn and I went to a church service on the ship. Apparently this has been happening every Sunday since this cruise started. There were about 30 people there, and the pastor’s wife played a keyboard to accompany the hymns (HYMNS!!). I really enjoyed the service; I wish I’d known about it sooner though so I could’ve been there the last few weeks. The sermon was on Job, and our reactions to suffering. He talked about Elizabeth Elliot (the women who went to the village to witness to the village that killed her husband; I first heard about her at the Barn, but had forgotten her name) and had a great quote about how an oyster gets a painful grain of sand inside of it, and slowly over time transforms it into a beautiful pearl. I really like that analogy, transforming our suffering, using it to better something. I’m definitely going to be there next week!
I went straight from the service to dinner, then straight from dinner to work. The siblings came in after a few minutes and the girl went straight to the coloring pages. The boy wasn’t sure what to do at first, then decided on watching Toy Story 3 and coloring. So, that’s what we did all evening, watched a movie and colored. I sharpened all the colored pencils (most of them were flat or broken because they like to color hard with them sometimes). There were only 20 minutes left after the movie ended, so we watched the extra features on Toy Story until their dad came to pick them up.
sea day and arrecife
November 1, 2012: Arrecife
I worked from 9-12 today. The girl came up for a little while; her parents didn’t tell me if they were coming back later when she left, so I just stayed in Club HAL until Brian came (since she was gone and the other kids don’t come in the morning, I could’ve left early). I had pasta for lunch again before changing and getting off the ship. I took the free shuttle the 10 minutes to the city (it’s a 45 minute walk) and set off walking along the shore, looking at what was around. It was kind of cloudy so the pictures I took didn’t come out as well as I’d like, but I have a lot of the water, boats on the water, the fort. I walked through the market (purses, scarves, belts and watches were pretty much the only things anyone was selling) and kept going. Finally I decided to head back and look for internet. Halfway back to the bus, I finally saw someone from the ship and they told me where I could go for internet. After that, I kept seeing crew members walking around. I sat down with a few at a café and tried to get internet there, but couldn’t connect; they were closing for siesta anyway so I left in search of somewhere open.
Finally, close to where the bus was, I found some of the cast connected to the internet. I ordered a sprite and sat with them and talked to Mom on skype for the first time in a week and a half. They left to go find postcards while I stayed to talk and listen to the band playing at this café. I got back on the bus at 3:35 because I knew the last bus left at 4. A few more people came in the next few minutes before they told us that this WAS the last bus and we had to wait until 4:05 to leave. The singer and her husband (the parents) were on that bus with me and I had to reassure them that they wouldn’t be too late to pick up their kids, and if anyone said anything, I would back them up because they were on the bus to be back in plenty of time. Finally after 4, with only the 8 of us that had been on the bus since 3:40, the bus drove us back to the ship. That was a bit frustrating, but at least we had good conversation during the wait and the ride back. I called Brian as soon as I got back to let him know the parents were on the way up and that it wasn’t their fault they were late. I went through some of my pictures the rest of the afternoon.
Not much happened at work tonight, just the usual coloring, movies and video games with the siblings. After work, I ended up watching one of the movies Daniel lent me and going to sleep somewhat early.
November 2, 2012: Sea Day
Another sea day, I’m so glad we don’t have many between the long 7 day sets. I went up for breakfast and work this morning. Of course, the girl was the only one there and was constantly wondering where the other girl was and when her mom was going to pick her up. But at least she was content to color and make a hand turkey (which took a surprisingly long time considering she colors so fast most of the time). I took a nap after work because I was really tired despite getting enough sleep.
I had lunch with Brandi after she finished her set and Kayley and Cass and Glenn and Blake joined us as they came to set up to play as well. I sat with them until they had to play and I decided to head downstairs for a bit, not really knowing what I was going to do. Daniel was in the spa as I walked through to go downstairs so I ended up talking to him for a while. He’d been talking about lending me a book and gave that to me so I could have something to do the rest of the afternoon. I turned on the TV to find Lord of the Rings on, so listened to that as I read until Bingo time. Cass was in the room when I got back from Bingo so we talked for a bit, then Kayley came by and we went to her room to watch part of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. We finished about half of it before dinner. We went to dinner and chatted with the cast until I had to get to work.
I wasn’t up there for long before the siblings came up. I put in a movie for the girl and the boy asked me to play Lego Star Wars with him. Occasionally I’d drop out of the game for a bit to color with the girl and so she could show me what she’d done. It was a very non-stressful night for which I was grateful.
They left at 10 and I decided not to go to the show, so I went down and curled my hair for the crew Halloween party tonight before helping Kayley with her hair. It was interesting doing her hair because she was Pippi Longstocking, I had to braid her hair, then slide a bent clothes hanger through it to make her braids stick up from her head. It worked pretty well! The Halloween party was fun; I liked seeing what everyone dressed up as, and how creative some people are.
Daniel and I hung out with Edison, Kayley and a few others in the hall afterward because we weren’t tired enough to go to sleep yet, but finally we realized that most of us were getting up early so should go to bed early. Quite a few people were going on tours early in the morning.
I worked from 9-12 today. The girl came up for a little while; her parents didn’t tell me if they were coming back later when she left, so I just stayed in Club HAL until Brian came (since she was gone and the other kids don’t come in the morning, I could’ve left early). I had pasta for lunch again before changing and getting off the ship. I took the free shuttle the 10 minutes to the city (it’s a 45 minute walk) and set off walking along the shore, looking at what was around. It was kind of cloudy so the pictures I took didn’t come out as well as I’d like, but I have a lot of the water, boats on the water, the fort. I walked through the market (purses, scarves, belts and watches were pretty much the only things anyone was selling) and kept going. Finally I decided to head back and look for internet. Halfway back to the bus, I finally saw someone from the ship and they told me where I could go for internet. After that, I kept seeing crew members walking around. I sat down with a few at a café and tried to get internet there, but couldn’t connect; they were closing for siesta anyway so I left in search of somewhere open.
Finally, close to where the bus was, I found some of the cast connected to the internet. I ordered a sprite and sat with them and talked to Mom on skype for the first time in a week and a half. They left to go find postcards while I stayed to talk and listen to the band playing at this café. I got back on the bus at 3:35 because I knew the last bus left at 4. A few more people came in the next few minutes before they told us that this WAS the last bus and we had to wait until 4:05 to leave. The singer and her husband (the parents) were on that bus with me and I had to reassure them that they wouldn’t be too late to pick up their kids, and if anyone said anything, I would back them up because they were on the bus to be back in plenty of time. Finally after 4, with only the 8 of us that had been on the bus since 3:40, the bus drove us back to the ship. That was a bit frustrating, but at least we had good conversation during the wait and the ride back. I called Brian as soon as I got back to let him know the parents were on the way up and that it wasn’t their fault they were late. I went through some of my pictures the rest of the afternoon.
Not much happened at work tonight, just the usual coloring, movies and video games with the siblings. After work, I ended up watching one of the movies Daniel lent me and going to sleep somewhat early.
November 2, 2012: Sea Day
Another sea day, I’m so glad we don’t have many between the long 7 day sets. I went up for breakfast and work this morning. Of course, the girl was the only one there and was constantly wondering where the other girl was and when her mom was going to pick her up. But at least she was content to color and make a hand turkey (which took a surprisingly long time considering she colors so fast most of the time). I took a nap after work because I was really tired despite getting enough sleep.
I had lunch with Brandi after she finished her set and Kayley and Cass and Glenn and Blake joined us as they came to set up to play as well. I sat with them until they had to play and I decided to head downstairs for a bit, not really knowing what I was going to do. Daniel was in the spa as I walked through to go downstairs so I ended up talking to him for a while. He’d been talking about lending me a book and gave that to me so I could have something to do the rest of the afternoon. I turned on the TV to find Lord of the Rings on, so listened to that as I read until Bingo time. Cass was in the room when I got back from Bingo so we talked for a bit, then Kayley came by and we went to her room to watch part of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. We finished about half of it before dinner. We went to dinner and chatted with the cast until I had to get to work.
I wasn’t up there for long before the siblings came up. I put in a movie for the girl and the boy asked me to play Lego Star Wars with him. Occasionally I’d drop out of the game for a bit to color with the girl and so she could show me what she’d done. It was a very non-stressful night for which I was grateful.
They left at 10 and I decided not to go to the show, so I went down and curled my hair for the crew Halloween party tonight before helping Kayley with her hair. It was interesting doing her hair because she was Pippi Longstocking, I had to braid her hair, then slide a bent clothes hanger through it to make her braids stick up from her head. It worked pretty well! The Halloween party was fun; I liked seeing what everyone dressed up as, and how creative some people are.
Daniel and I hung out with Edison, Kayley and a few others in the hall afterward because we weren’t tired enough to go to sleep yet, but finally we realized that most of us were getting up early so should go to bed early. Quite a few people were going on tours early in the morning.
halloween
October 30, 2012: Tenerife, Santa Cruz
We had a general emergency drill this morning, which meant that all crew had to participate (aside from the few necessary to keep the ship running for the 45 minutes as the drill went on). I had to go to the front office as usual to hang out until they dismissed everyone to go to their life rafts. Then, they went through all the coast guard questions and gathered three rafts together to go over some of the important life raft things again.
I see why we have these kinds of drills, but why must we wear our life jackets the whole time. The life jacket hurts, it pushes against the back of my neck (because it’s too big and weighed down) and I feel it the rest of the day. It’s very frustrating.
Anyway, after the drill I had to make sure the girl wasn’t going to come up today since her parents hadn’t been up to sign her up for port day. I waited while Brian called, as I waited I saw all my friends leave the ship. So, by the time I found out that I could get off, most everyone had already gone, and it was almost lunchtime. I had decided just to eat lunch on the ship by then, because it was only 20 minutes until it opened; I met Jim in the hallway and he invited me to go off ship with him and the acupuncturist Ginger after someone else got back (they’d split the day off-ship because one had IPM).
I had a burger for lunch alone by the pool. Most everyone was already off the ship; someone told me that only about 200 passengers were on board. I got off the ship with Ginger and Jim. We walked around for a bit and Jim tried to find a bank so he could exchange some money (he lives in Spain, so they have his bank here so he was going to put US Dollars in his account and pull out Euros). However, after we waited at one bank, it turns out they were only affiliated with his and they can’t do transactions for his bank. So, we went to another one down the road; after a 20 minute wait there, all the computers went down, so it was all for nothing.
We walked around for a while and met Glenn and Blake (the bass player, he got on in Ft. Lauderdale. I don’t remember if I’ve mentioned him yet). They were all kind of hungry so I tagged along as they looked for a place that had tapas and wifi. Finally we gave up on the wifi part and sat in a restaurant. They ate and I had a tea. We sat there for a really long time, so long that I was worried about finding internet before I got back on the ship for work (Brian asked if I’d take his shift tonight, he’ll work for me another time). Finally we left the restaurant and Jim and I separated from the group because he needed to get back to the ship too. We got back to the main street by the port and found what we’d spent an hour looking for: many restaurants with wifi. The cast and Brian were sitting at one of them and I joined them to use the wifi for a little while before I got back on the ship.
October 31, 2012: Las Palmas
Happy Halloween! I slept in today and had work at 12. The girl was there when I took over for Brian, but her mom came to take her to lunch after a few minutes. So, I had lunch to myself again. After a rather quick lunch of pasta, I went back up to Club HAL. I managed to get some pumpkins cut out since Brian asked if I could cut out some more (both for the girl to decorate and for us to decorate for the Halloween Party).
The girl came up soon after lunch, and we spent the afternoon decorating pumpkins. I also cut out some witches hats, ghosts and bats since I was getting a bit tired of pumpkins. Near the end of the afternoon, I had a great idea and made a pumpkin with a light in it, out of paper of course. The girl saw what I was doing and made me cut stuff out for her to do the same. I had an orange pumpkin, a slightly smaller black pumpkin, and I cut out bits of red, orange and yellow to make a flame. I layered them so the flame was behind the face, but still the pumpkin had black eyes and all that. I think it looks pretty cool. My flames turned out pretty cool too I think, I snipped the edges so they look kind of frayed, but they also kind of look like they’re moving (or at least more like fire). I keep showing this pumpkin to people (I used a magnet to put it on my door!).
After that, I was done for the day. I went downstairs to meet Glenn and Edison who I’d seen earlier still on the ship and said they’d get off with me after 4. Neither of them answered their phones or their doors, so I got off on my own (I didn’t want to wait around, I’ve had enough of that). Not far off the ship, I met Jim and Ginger as they were heading back to the ship. Ginger decided to go back out with me. Yay, I had a buddy! We went to the mall and just looked around for costume pieces for her, and the ever-important wifi. We tried for wifi at McDonalds, but it wasn’t very good so we walked around more. I hadn’t seen anyone else to stay off-ship with me, so I got back on the ship with her for dinner. We were finishing dinner when Edison came up. I talked to him for a bit and we ended up going downstairs to grab computers, change and go back out since he knew somewhere we could get internet. I finally got to upload pictures! We spent an hour on the internet at the café before we had to get back on the ship before all aboard and so we could get ready for the Halloween party.
I curled my hair and borrowed the wand Maria (cast member) got at Wizarding World of Harry Potter and became Luna. I went up to the Crow’s Nest and was surprised at just how many people were dressed up. I had kind of thought it would be mostly crew. There were some pretty creative costumes: cereal killer, ghosts, witches, Lady Luck, belly dancers, genies, etc. I took a lot of pictures with the other crew members there (mostly from the entertainment department: the cast, librarian, life stylist, party planner, musicians, but of course the photographers were there too). Amongst the crew we had superman, batman, Betty Bop, Pippi Longstocking, a vampire, Luna (me!), punks, pirates, and many more. It was a lot of fun to see the creative side to people that I see every day in uniforms. We all danced a lot and clapped for the winners of the costume contests. After that, I went down to the OB and hung out with everyone that had come down from the party (it was crew curfew in guest areas). It was a fun night in general.
We had a general emergency drill this morning, which meant that all crew had to participate (aside from the few necessary to keep the ship running for the 45 minutes as the drill went on). I had to go to the front office as usual to hang out until they dismissed everyone to go to their life rafts. Then, they went through all the coast guard questions and gathered three rafts together to go over some of the important life raft things again.
I see why we have these kinds of drills, but why must we wear our life jackets the whole time. The life jacket hurts, it pushes against the back of my neck (because it’s too big and weighed down) and I feel it the rest of the day. It’s very frustrating.
Anyway, after the drill I had to make sure the girl wasn’t going to come up today since her parents hadn’t been up to sign her up for port day. I waited while Brian called, as I waited I saw all my friends leave the ship. So, by the time I found out that I could get off, most everyone had already gone, and it was almost lunchtime. I had decided just to eat lunch on the ship by then, because it was only 20 minutes until it opened; I met Jim in the hallway and he invited me to go off ship with him and the acupuncturist Ginger after someone else got back (they’d split the day off-ship because one had IPM).
I had a burger for lunch alone by the pool. Most everyone was already off the ship; someone told me that only about 200 passengers were on board. I got off the ship with Ginger and Jim. We walked around for a bit and Jim tried to find a bank so he could exchange some money (he lives in Spain, so they have his bank here so he was going to put US Dollars in his account and pull out Euros). However, after we waited at one bank, it turns out they were only affiliated with his and they can’t do transactions for his bank. So, we went to another one down the road; after a 20 minute wait there, all the computers went down, so it was all for nothing.
We walked around for a while and met Glenn and Blake (the bass player, he got on in Ft. Lauderdale. I don’t remember if I’ve mentioned him yet). They were all kind of hungry so I tagged along as they looked for a place that had tapas and wifi. Finally we gave up on the wifi part and sat in a restaurant. They ate and I had a tea. We sat there for a really long time, so long that I was worried about finding internet before I got back on the ship for work (Brian asked if I’d take his shift tonight, he’ll work for me another time). Finally we left the restaurant and Jim and I separated from the group because he needed to get back to the ship too. We got back to the main street by the port and found what we’d spent an hour looking for: many restaurants with wifi. The cast and Brian were sitting at one of them and I joined them to use the wifi for a little while before I got back on the ship.
October 31, 2012: Las Palmas
Happy Halloween! I slept in today and had work at 12. The girl was there when I took over for Brian, but her mom came to take her to lunch after a few minutes. So, I had lunch to myself again. After a rather quick lunch of pasta, I went back up to Club HAL. I managed to get some pumpkins cut out since Brian asked if I could cut out some more (both for the girl to decorate and for us to decorate for the Halloween Party).
The girl came up soon after lunch, and we spent the afternoon decorating pumpkins. I also cut out some witches hats, ghosts and bats since I was getting a bit tired of pumpkins. Near the end of the afternoon, I had a great idea and made a pumpkin with a light in it, out of paper of course. The girl saw what I was doing and made me cut stuff out for her to do the same. I had an orange pumpkin, a slightly smaller black pumpkin, and I cut out bits of red, orange and yellow to make a flame. I layered them so the flame was behind the face, but still the pumpkin had black eyes and all that. I think it looks pretty cool. My flames turned out pretty cool too I think, I snipped the edges so they look kind of frayed, but they also kind of look like they’re moving (or at least more like fire). I keep showing this pumpkin to people (I used a magnet to put it on my door!).
After that, I was done for the day. I went downstairs to meet Glenn and Edison who I’d seen earlier still on the ship and said they’d get off with me after 4. Neither of them answered their phones or their doors, so I got off on my own (I didn’t want to wait around, I’ve had enough of that). Not far off the ship, I met Jim and Ginger as they were heading back to the ship. Ginger decided to go back out with me. Yay, I had a buddy! We went to the mall and just looked around for costume pieces for her, and the ever-important wifi. We tried for wifi at McDonalds, but it wasn’t very good so we walked around more. I hadn’t seen anyone else to stay off-ship with me, so I got back on the ship with her for dinner. We were finishing dinner when Edison came up. I talked to him for a bit and we ended up going downstairs to grab computers, change and go back out since he knew somewhere we could get internet. I finally got to upload pictures! We spent an hour on the internet at the café before we had to get back on the ship before all aboard and so we could get ready for the Halloween party.
I curled my hair and borrowed the wand Maria (cast member) got at Wizarding World of Harry Potter and became Luna. I went up to the Crow’s Nest and was surprised at just how many people were dressed up. I had kind of thought it would be mostly crew. There were some pretty creative costumes: cereal killer, ghosts, witches, Lady Luck, belly dancers, genies, etc. I took a lot of pictures with the other crew members there (mostly from the entertainment department: the cast, librarian, life stylist, party planner, musicians, but of course the photographers were there too). Amongst the crew we had superman, batman, Betty Bop, Pippi Longstocking, a vampire, Luna (me!), punks, pirates, and many more. It was a lot of fun to see the creative side to people that I see every day in uniforms. We all danced a lot and clapped for the winners of the costume contests. After that, I went down to the OB and hung out with everyone that had come down from the party (it was crew curfew in guest areas). It was a fun night in general.
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