Dancin' the night away

May 4, 2009

Another lovely day to sleep in…until the aches and pains of my body insisted that I get out of bed. Ugh! Is it my age or the bed!

The little one and I headed down to the Atrium at 1100am for the Scavenger Hunt fully anticipating that WE would be our own little team. Wrong! Again, we were matched with 4 others - a team of 6. There were six things that we had to find on the ship and take a photo of our whole team with the thing we found. That meant that we had to ask somebody not on our team (a passerby) to take a photo of us. There were clues to what we had to find such as: “The one who calls numbers during the day” - ie: the bingo caller. So, we had to interrupt the current Bingo session to our photo with the bingo caller. There were 6 items in the Scavenger hunt and we had only 20 minutes to find them. Lo and behold - our team was the last one back (out of 5). Ugh! Personal accountability and responsibility - I really need help on my team playing skills or maybe I am just a solo sport/game player.

It was a little chilly out today. I can feel us getting closer to home by the brisk air. While I probably am ready to drift off to a deep sleep in my own comfy bed, I am not looking forward to the chilly Alaskan weather. I pray that the snow had truly left for the year and that we actually see the sun more than seven days this summer.

I decided to use my own creativity and step away from the suggested watercolor picture in class today. I had a vision last night (sounds deep) about a dark road and the moonlight and walking with someone in it. Not sure what all that meant, but I decided to try and paint it. The final product wasn’t exactly like my vision.

Bub was hanging out around the ship with a new buddy he made - playing video games and tennis and stuff. I had told him to meet us in the room at 5pm to get ready for dinner. Well, wouldn’t you know, the little one and I got tied up in a game of Super Scrabble. OMG! It is awesome! Imagine Scrabble with a bigger board and 2 - Z’s and 2 - Q’s and Quadruple letter and word scores! I got over 600 points. Of course, the game took twice as long and Bub eventually found us in the library playing it and he had quite an attitude because it was 530pm and we were far from ready for dinner. I think this vacation was a bit too long for him. He was ready to go home two days ago. For me, though, I’m sad that it is almost over and that the reality of getting back to everyday reality is coming soon.

Since the attitude was happening tonight, I didn’t want to sit with a group of other people at dinner and socialize. So, I told the host that we would wait for a private table. Only had to wait about 10 minutes. I had Prime Rib, which was okay - but I must say, I’ve made better. The little one had Red Snapper, which was delicious. Bub was going to order New York Steak, but the waiter and I pressured him into trying the Prime Rib - a different cut of the beef and so he changed his order and ordered the Prime Rib medium rare. Well, it came to our table dripping blood and it grossed him out. Duh. I’ve been trying to tell him that for the past few New York Steaks that he has had. I had the waiter bring him a new cut that was medium. He ate three bites and said he was full. The kids had their usual ice cream for dessert and I had Chocolate Almond Opera Cake - only about 500 calories, I’m sure.

The show tonight was a female singer, which we decided to skip. As it turned out, her voice gave out and she walked off stage only 20 minutes into her second show. Even with a horse voice though, everyone was raving about her singing. Another show, the kids would not have appreciated anyway.

It was Country Night in the Crow’s Nest. The little one has been waiting for this night since the Line Dance Night. Since my ipod is toast, I had to bring my laptop for the DJ to download the Hoedown Throwdown so the girl could be in her glory and teach the song again. There were more participants this time and she had run through it prior with Laura, The Party Planner so she had another “demonstrator”. It was so fun to hear her voice amplified through the microphone while teaching the moves. She had such a great time. It was the opening line dance for the night. DJ Lee introduced her as “We have a very special guest who is going to teach you one of her favorite line dances:” then said her name and where she was from. Of course, we stayed for the next hour so she could do all the other line dances too.

When we got back to our room, our steward had made the best towel creature yet…