Last night was improv night in the Loft. They weren’t fully into it. They put up with the activities on the schedule for little over an hour before moving on. First we had an activity “party quirks” where they have to act out a ‘quirk’ and have the others guess what they’re doing (actions instead of nouns, but still kind of like charades). They got tired of that pretty quickly, so we moved on to “Random Line.” That one they enjoyed more. I’d come up with random sentences and written them all down on slips of paper. A group of three came up and each grabbed 3 slips of paper. Another person was the ‘host’ and the others were the audience. The audience came up with a scenario for the 3 to act out; they started to act it out and the host would yell “line” and one of them would pull a paper out of their pocket and read it. They would then attempt to make the line make sense in the scenario. That lasted a while, but these teens aren’t really the most creative, so they got bored with it and we gave up on theme night. So, some of us played Apples to Apples, while others sat around and talked, and others played foosball or air hockey the rest of the night.
This morning, I got up and ready and went to breakfast before the raft drill. Happily, the raft drill didn’t last long, so I changed and read while I waited for everyone else to get ready to go, since 4 of us had planned on going to Pisa today. Meghna had missed breakfast, so ran up to grab a sandwich for lunch; while she was doing that, Kristin and April came by ready to go. They ended up going on ahead, and I had to wait for Meghna to get back so we could go. We took a shuttle to the town, then had to take the bus to the train station, and took the train to Pisa.
At the train station, we found Ana and her roommate, McKeena (HAL Cats piano; they were also going to Pisa) so hung out with them while we waited for the train. Once we got to Pisa, we found Kristin and April, who had actually been on the same train as us because of timing. So, the six of us set of for the Leaning Tower of Pisa. We walked and wandered around, occasionally stopping to take pictures and look in stores. April and I ended up together and got left behind when we stopped to get her some food. So, the two of us just took our time walking around until we got to the tower. We found the tower and also found Ana and McKeena, so took some group pictures and lots of funny shots before wandering off on our own again. We walked around the market, occasionally taking more pictures of the tower, trying to find the best angle. We decided to take the 3:45 train back so we could get some internet before going back to the ship, so left the tower area and walked back to the train station. We made it just in time for the train and had a nice ride back, and a crowded bus ride back into Livorno.
I had just enough time to check Facebook before we caught the shuttle back to the ship. Once back on the ship, we changed and got ready to go to Tamarind. It’s the Asian restaurant on the Signature Class ships. Ryan had organized it so that we could all go and eat dinner together tonight. It was nice, everyone but Kristin came (she didn’t want to rush to get back to the ship from Pisa). I managed to find some stuff I liked (mainly the ‘bread’ stuff, like the chip-things and orange dip they give us at the Chinese restaurant). It was nice though just hanging out, having a nice meal as a Club HAL. It’s awesome because we found out that due to some new thing, all of Club HAL gets the perk of once a month getting one free time dining at one of the specialty restaurants (Canaletto, Pinnacle, and Tamarind), plus guest. Meghna was my guest, so we may end up going to Canaletto or Pinnacle before the end of the month so I can be her guest!
The rest of them had to rush downstairs to get to work, but Meghna and I took our time and went down to the room until we had to go to the Loft. As usual, Meghna took a nap while I read and went through my pictures for a while. I wasn’t tired, but the room was dark, so my eyes were getting heavy, so I ended up just going up to the Loft early just so I wouldn’t fall asleep. Ryan was there, so we talked for a while and discussed the teen BBQ tomorrow evening.
It was movie night for all Club HAL, because it’s Rome tomorrow! We borrowed a few movies from the kids room just in case the teens didn’t want to go downstairs and borrow one from the front office – they haven’t the last few nights. We had a bit of free time before playing Celebrity Heads for about half an hour. Two of the girls actually went down and got a movie for us, so after we finished the game, we voted on what movie to watch and ended up watching “Easy A.” It was an easy night. Meghna and I went through the manifest and wrote room numbers and names down for all the teens that have been coming so we can start writing them notes (most YPCs have us do that for all ages and deliver them before the guest satisfaction surveys go out- Ryan said we didn’t have to, but Meghna wanted to, so that’s our task for the next few days; writing and decorating over 50 notes). The movie ended and everyone left, even though it was only 11:30. We weren’t complaining though, because it gave us time to clean up the room and write a few notes before coming down to our room.
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