venice day 3

July 3, 2013: Venice day 3
I had a lazy morning. I had to go by crew office to get my key card re-activated, and of course I had breakfast, but other than that I didn’t do anything. I went up to Club HAL to get the wristbands for the passenger drill and ended up hanging out with some of my tweens there until the drill. Kristin and I each took a side and made sure all the kids had a wristband. One family confused me a bit. I was on the odd side with green wristbands, but these kids had an even number red wristband. The grandmother didn’t seem to understand the fact that the kids needed to either be at the lifeboat with their parents (the number on their wristband) or have the wristband for the lifeboat with their grandparents. So confusing, my main question is why aren’t they all in the same boat!?

As soon as the drill ended, Kristin and I were in the Lido getting lunch, followed by all the passengers because it was about 12:15. It wasn’t nearly as crowded as I thought it’d be since the drill was at 11:45, an odd time for it because it’s the middle of lunch! It was still pretty crowded though, so we teamed up in getting food and drinks so we didn’t have to wait in so many lines, and so we could get to work on time.

This afternoon’s session was good. The kids were really into the games, and now there’s a few more boys so it’s more even. I keep wondering how one of the girls is 10 when she acts 5 or 6. She looks about 6 as well. She’s extremely impatient and doesn’t want to do any of the activities we plan, then complains about being bored. Not quite sure how to handle that just yet. About 20 kids showed up and stayed most of the afternoon. “Pineapples” definitely kept their attention for a while; a few of them actually managed to come up with about 70 words, out of the 130 or so we know! I was impressed.

We had Lights, Camera, Action tonight. We started off with the usual free time, then went on to make stars and play Celebrity Heads. That pretty much kept them all occupied until the end of the night, which was nice.