I was on teens yesterday (sea day), and had the night off, which was nice. None of the teens showed up until around 5, and then it was only 2 who were exchange students from Finland and Germany on vacation with their journalist host mom. It was cool to talk to them, though they didn’t really stay long, they came to try to meet other teenagers, but there weren’t any others there. Meghna was supposed to meet me at dinner at 6 but she wasn’t there, and neither was Amanda so I sat down alone for a while, then Alex joined me for a bit before he had to head to work, and then finally everyone else started showing up, by which time I was ready to leave and change into formal. Courtney met me in my room and curled my hair (she has one of those ‘professional’ curling things that wraps and curls sections of hair in a few seconds), then we went off to the show.
After the show, we went to the atrium area and bugged all the photographers and got a LOT of pictures taken (some after we borrowed Amanda for a bit from work). Not sure what to do afterwards, we wandered around to the different bars and finally settled in the Crow’s Nest for a while to just hang out. It felt so much later than it really was though, because I got used to going to the show at 10, not 8; 2 hours makes a BIG difference! They didn’t really want to stay in public area, so we went to the OB, which was pretty dead, so they left and I hung out with Ryan (from the cast) for a bit, eventually we decided to venture back out to public area once more, and ended up at the elevators near the casino, where a lot of the DWTS people were. We stayed there for a while talking to people (most of them are actually pretty nice) until we moved on to the Northern Lights with a lot of them. That was fun, Alex joined us after the band finished their set, and a lot of the cast members came. I ended up talking for a lot time with a girl who I found out was assistant for makeup and wardrobe (she was really nice), and a passenger hung out with us too. We got introduced both to Sabrina Bryan and Joey Fatone and a few of the dancers who hadn’t been outside the casino earlier. I really enjoyed chatting with all of them!
Anyway, today I had to work the morning shift, of course no one showed up so Meghna came to take over at 11:30 and we just had lunch together. Alex and I had planned on going to the beach after I got off work, but it was cloudy looking outside, so when I got back to the room I called and instead made plans to get some wifi and food (for him, since I’d just eaten lunch).
It’s nice sometimes when it rains, because then I don’t feel guilty about using my time ashore only for wifi instead of excursions and beach time! It was like that especially in Europe. Rain gave us an excuse to just relax and not feel quite so obligated to do something more productive or educational with our time.
I intended to take a nap when we got back, but it just wasn’t meant to be. First Meghna called and needed me to cover for her in Club HAL for a few minutes (so I had to change into my uniform, go upstairs, and then of course I ended up hanging out and talking to her for longer), then someone in the room next door decided to deadbolt their door open, and go in and out and in and out of their room for about 20 minutes straight, and then Courtney called so we could go get pictures from formal night (she leaves tomorrow so we had to get the prints today). They were busy, so we wandered around a bit made plans for dinner and picking up the pictures after dinner. However, plans changed when I returned Alex’s ipad and he wanted to go to dinner early. Courtney just met me as I was finishing dinner and we got the pictures and sorted them before I had to work.
Work was a bit long tonight, “Games Galore” night just isn’t made for kids under the age of 8. I usually have the tweens make up their own board game; the little ones can’t do that. The little ones also can’t play that many board games, all we have for them is Candyland, Jenga, and Connect 4 (which really is over some of their heads anyway). I made it through though, but had to give them more free time at the end of the night, when most parents were coming in anyway. I was ready to run downstairs, grab my camera, change and run to the show (the Dancing with the Stars production show), but one of the parents was late picking up their kid, so I really did have to run, and I missed the first 15 minutes of the show, and Courtney and Sam had just lost the seat they’d been saving for me. So, I stood through the show, it wasn’t too bad though, I could move around to take pictures and not really disturb anyone, except when the dancers came into the audience and ran around the stairs (the narrow part, where I was standing). I did get a LOT of pictures though!
Courtney had been planning on staying out late as it was her last night on board, but when we went to the Northern Lights after the show, she realized how tired she was, so she and Sam left. I stayed of course, and hung out with the cast and Alex when he got off work, and talked more with Rachel (the assistant for makeup/wardrobe). It was hour back night, which was amazing, although, the extra hour that could’ve been used for sleep was instead spent on hanging out in the Northern Lights and OB, choosing music to play and just talking.
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