Day at Sea

It’s a good thing. In each elevator is a floor mat. Not remarkable you say, quite common in fact. The neat thing is that it has the day of the week on it, and it gets changed daily. Very helpful to those of us in
vacation lala land. So I know today was Sunday, instead of just a day at
sea. The kids were up early as usual. After breakfast R went to the
kids club, and I took J. Daddy had had a bad night, with a runny nose, so he went back to the cabin for a nap. J and I went to the Explorer’s lounge, where we found a super comfy couch. I got all his toys out, and he played beside me while I did a jigsaw puzzle. It was a really nice set up with a low leather couch on one side, a big square table, and more
chairs around it. He was happy there for about an hour. Then he got
restless, so we moved so a nice couch just off the hallway. He practiced standing here, and sitting, and turning pages in his book. At one point he yawned, so I rocked him to sleep. One woman came by (obviously missing her grandkids) and said she’d like a turn holding him too! I just smiled.
No way lady, I’m not handing my sleeping child over to you! But she ment well.
J woke up after about 30 minutes, and we went to get daddy, then R from the kids club. Next we had a dip in the pool before lunch. Well, I should say daddy and I sat on the edge of the pool, and J was with us, R
was the only one right in the water. They set up this ‘Mongolian Grill’
on the pool deck for lunch. Basically you pile your plate high with all sorts of veggies and cooked meats, and they stir fry it for you on this
big grill. Nice. There was also sliced mango at the buffet, sushi,
devilled eggs, a frightfully good Caesar salad, well you get the picture.
We ate on the pool deck. It was very windy, but delightful none the
less. J got lots of attention as he always seems to do here. R is
somewhat jealous, but then someone tells her how much they liked her dancing, or her braids and she is mollified.
I put J down for a nap and listened to my audiobook. He slept for a
whopping 2 hours and 15 minutes! Unheard of. We wandered around a bit then went back to the pool. Oh, during our wandering we went by the photo
studio. The photographer stopped me, and told me J was famous already.
Sure enough there were super cute portraits of J and R, both prominently
displayed. Later in the evening, I heard a woman in the elevator say
“oh, there is the baby from the photo studio!”. Yup, famous all right.
Supper was great as always, and after R went to the kids club. Well, I should say she BEGGED us to go to the kids club. I patiently explained
that the kids that stay up late are also the kids that sleep in. Kids
like her who are wired to get up early need to get to bed early. She was NOT happy to hear that, and promised to sleep in until 11am if only we let
her go! Well we’ll likely pay for it, but she went for a while. There
are 22 kids on the ship between the ages of 3 and 17, and she knows pretty much all of them. One of her little friends is even from London Ontario.
Tomorrow is San Juan and we’ll see what new adventures that brings.