another sea day

July 13, 2013: Sea day
Sea days seem so different here, especially as the last day of the cruise. This morning was relatively quiet. Only a few kids came, but they were all very awake. We played some board games, UNO and a few other things; we couldn’t go up to the Sports Deck because it was being cleaned, a few of the tweens were upset by that, but they were happier when I told them we were going up this afternoon as well.

After a quick lunch it was back to work. This afternoon dragged on a bit. Nothing too exciting happened. A lot more of the kids came, which was odd because it was a nice day to be in the pool. We played lots of games, went up to the Sports Deck, and wrote some Thank You letters. That last was pretty entertaining. Ryan had messed up with the scheduling and we’d written Letters to the Captain on the first day, and he had it on the schedule again today, so we changed it to thank you letters. We told them they could write it to anyone they wanted: their parents for taking them on the cruise, their room steward, their waiter, anyone. It was fun to see who they actually wrote to. A few wrote notes to us, a lot wrote notes to Dave (the Cruise Director), and one girl wrote to someone very different: “Emma’s Mum and Dad.” So, that’s on my wall right now for you until I get home, haha. :)

I read for a while, then took a nap until nearly time for dinner. I went up a little early and ate with James during his break before the long last-night-of-the-cruise-picture-buying-rush in the photo gallery.

Pajamarama party was fun. It was a bit crazy during free time because some weren’t there for long and they all wanted to play one of the same three games (Super Mario Bros, Lego Star Wars, and Forsa Motorsports have been extremely popular this cruise). Snack arrived and we gave it out, then talked about the cruise: their favorite things in general, favorite ports, cool stuff they did, and stuff they bought. After that, we put in Madagascar for them to watch while we put together all their crafts to take home and started putting up the names for the tweens here next week. Pretty easy night.