I had to be up really early to help with tendering this morning. I got to stand at the stairs and collect tender tickets. Surprisingly it went really smoothly. There was no wait except for right at the beginning when a few shore excursions went off at once, and then it was only a short wait. So, since everyone was just getting a ticket and walking straight on to the tender, we were discussing going into open tender at 9 (we started giving out tender tickets at 8). At 9:10 they made the announcement for open tender, I had to stay at the stairs for a few extra minutes to collect the rest of the tickets but then I got to go up and have breakfast with Linda. Breakfast was nice and relaxing, I felt like I’d already been productive and that it was going to be a great day!
After breakfast, we went down to change, met up with James and got off the ship to explore. We walked up lots of stairs to a garden and palace. There were some pretty views and we got to see another ship come in from there (they were docking which is why we had to tender).
We took a lot of pictures around the garden, of the view from the wall, of the buildings around, of the random statues in the garden, etc. It was fun. We started to get hungry so wandered more into town to see what was there; we happened to catch the last bit of the changing of the guards. We were wandering around up there and I ended up buying a laptop bag like the Paris bag I bought two years ago; I’d accidently left mine at home so have been using my bookbag to carry around my laptop on days when I carried it out with me. All the restaurants there were kind of expensive, so we made our way back down the hill closer to the marina. Linda remembered a meeting she was supposed to attend, so went back to the ship leaving me and James to find lunch. We found a place to eat and I had a crepe (yum!). It was a bit funny because James hasn’t heard me speak French much, so he was a somewhat surprised when I talked to the waitress. We got back to the ship and I didn’t do much until dinner. Right after dinner we had Kids in the Kitchen, so we met the kids at Slice (the pizza area on the back deck of the Lido) and they put together their own pizza. Only 5 of our kids showed up, but 20 of the tweens were there. We gave the kids some free time when we got up to Club HAL, then started Olympic Night. April and I didn’t want to spend the whole night outside, so we had them get into teams and decorate flags, come up with a secret handshake and song, then we talked about favorite sports for a while before going outside. Once on the Sports Deck we discovered that it was pretty windy. We played a few games out there anyway: an obstacle course, races, relays, sharks & minnows, etc. Finally things just got a bit hectic and it didn’t seem like anyone was having much fun anymore so we headed back downstairs to play 4 corners.
I was on after-hours duty tonight. It wasn’t so bad, three boys played Super Mario Bros, one of my kids was there for a little while and we bounced a balloon around, then two more came and they watched a movie until one of them decided she didn’t want to watch a movie so we went through 4 or 5 different games before her parents came. Not so bad of a night, but I am so tired, I was up before 7 this morning, and now it’s after midnight!
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