I had to help with tendering this morning again. So early. It wasn’t too bad though, we basically just sent everyone straight down to a tender as they got their number, so we were at open tender by 9:30 again! I like that part. Linda and I had breakfast, then we got off and went to the aquarium and oceanic museum that we’d seen last time. That was fun, we spent a lot of time there, taking pictures of the fish, reading about them and stuff.
It was interesting getting back to the ship. Getting on the tender was fine, but it was really rocky as we made our way to the ship; we had fun and got a bit splashed in the process. But, when we got close to the ship is when it got more interesting. We had to make about 5 tries to get close enough to the ship for them to tie us to it, and after those 5 we had to make another few attempts before we got the back of the tender securely fastened to the ship. Then, we discovered how incredibly rocky it was. We kept slamming against the platform, hearing cracks as the tender hit metal rings, the water level kept going way down then way back up and we kept going somewhat far away from the platform before quickly slamming back against it. It took at least 15 minutes to get everyone off. They basically picked me up and handed me to the people on the platform because they were worried I might fall in I guess. (There were two people on the tender helping people get over, and two on the platform). It was a fun adventure! :)
I went through my pictures and deleted the many many blurry ones (the light was bad in the tanks in the aquarium) until dinner. We had Tamarind tonight because it’s Jenny’s birthday. I enjoyed it; I still think my favorite part of the meal is the crackers and sauce they give us at the start though.
Tonight in the Loft it was Improv night. We let them hang out and chat for about 45 minutes to see if anyone else would come, then started with Random Lines. We ended up doing Random Lines for an hour or so, then snack arrived so we took a break for that. No one seemed really to want to do anything else, so we gave up on the idea of charades and let them talk. They all left by 11, so Jenny and I cleaned up some, then played MarioKart. A few came back around 11:30 and stayed for a few minutes before leaving again, but that was it. Kind of nice for us because it meant we could close up a little bit early. Livorno tomorrow; Linda and James are both IPM so I’m probably just going to get off for a little while and get internet.
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