Everyone except Dad and me went on
a catamaran/snorkeling/beach party excursion, so I decided this would be my day
to explore the ship looking for all of the interactive paintings. Using the map provided by the Midship
Detective Agency, I started on deck 10 at the front of the ship, and walked
down the stairs to all of the interactive pictures on the even-numbered decks
at the front of the ship. Of course,
being me, I started in the maintenance/cleaning area of deck 10 and was
politely but firmly ushered out to the stairs. *blush*
After that, I was a good little
passenger and stayed to the proper staircases!
I found all of the interactive pictures, and although I did like the
castle and ship shooting at each other from opposite paintings, my favorite
is still the interactive map on Deck 5.
I also found the stateroom door of Pepe, the king prawn, and behind me
someone squealed “Eee, is that Pepe’s door?”
I turned around and said yes, it was, to the wife of a couple standing
behind me. She was so excited, but her
husband didn’t know who Pepe is, and when his wife and I explained it, he asked
if I was a teacher and I said, “No, I’m a geek.” Then I walked to the back of the boat, took the elevator to 9
and walked down that staircase, finding more interactive pictures.
When I got back to my stateroom, I
ordered a Caesar salad and pepperoni pizza from room service. Of course it arrived just as Dad woke up
from his nap and asked if I wanted to go to lunch with him. I told Dad I was eating in the room, and
then ate half the salad and all of the pizza and finished my book. It had started to rain, so I watched the
rain for a bit, then saw the catamarans start to come in, and then took a
nap.
When I woke up, everyone was back
and had eaten lunch. Mom said they’d
had a really good time, although the rain started when they were on the beach
and she couldn’t get warm. She was cold
all through dinner, which was pirate-themed.
Our host had left pirate kerchiefs in our rooms, and all of us wore
them, although Dad and Jeeves cheated by using them as pocket squares. We were, however, absolutely drab next to
all the people who’d brought or bought seriously pirate-themed clothing. Dinner was great, and I managed both to have
dessert (angelfood cake with strawberry glaze) and a drink and not get sick.
There were towel dogs in our
rooms, and Mom and I put her dog on my bed with mine and put sunglasses and
pirate kerchiefs on them. We were
giggling the whole time, and giggled even harder when Dad yelled from his room,
“Are you two playing with dolls?”
There was a night-long pirate
theme on the ship. At 8:30, Mickey and
friends would fight off a pirate invasion up on the top deck, and at 10:30,
there was a pirate party scheduled, followed by fireworks and a midnight
buffet. Mom said she’d come collect me
at 10 so we could go up, but the first time she knocked I reminded her that we
were on Texas time, not Ohio time. :D
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So did time then stand still?
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