nice day on the island

Dec 30: HMC
A very nice day :)
We arrived somewhat later this morning (scheduled actually, not just a ‘we are running late’ late arrival), so I managed to get upstairs and eat some breakfast before changing and getting on the tender to head to shore. Only one of the kids signed in, so it was Phil, Ethan, and me helping one kid build a giant sandcastle/city complete with highway, bridges, lakes, a town hall, and a ‘guardian’ of some sort (the boys called it a gorilla, but it looks nothing like a gorilla to me. What does it look like to you?). Our hour ended, and I stayed later to rinse off the toys and put them back in the bag, and to see if any families showed up for the family sandcastle contest. No one showed up, so after 10 minutes, I made my way down the beach, lugging my beach bag plus the bag of wet kids beach toys (heavy bag!).

I set up camp on the beach, alternating between swimming and laying out to read. Alex and Fillipo joined me for a bit and we played Frisbee in the water. That was fun, that Frisbee definitely was a good investment! Somehow in our playing, we moved pretty far down the beach, so when we were done, we had to swim back when we got tired. They left me not long after we got back to our chairs, and I was left alone again. It was a tad lonely, but not too bad, I finished a book and swam a lot before I finally decided I should head back to the ship before the tenders started getting too crowded (we left late today, 5 instead of the usual 3:30ish, it was around 3:30 when I got back to the ship this time).

Sports Under the Stars night went much better this time than last week, though I was thoroughly bored. I let Royce take charge since all the kids wanted to do was play dodgeball. I entertained the 4 girls that didn’t like sports, but it was still a long time to spend outside not really doing much.