Archive for April 5th, 2009
Momma missed having breakfast with Daddy, Parker, and me again today, but not because she was feeling sick…she was FINALLY getting to celebrate her birthday from us! While we were eating the usual cereal and pancakes for breakfast, she was getting a hot rock massage!
Once we met back up, we explored the ship a little more and found Camp Carnival. Camp Carnival is the place where grown-ups can leave their kids to play and do activities while they fall asleep drinking diet cokes by the pool and get sunburns! I never spent anytime at Camp Carnival, but today Parker got to be there for about an hour. Once he saw the Geotrax, he forgot about the rest of us pretty quickly. He even made a pirate hat!
Next was a pretty boring grown-up meeting about how to get off the ship. I have an idea, just get your bags and walk out the door! Seems pretty easy to me. It would cut down that 45 minute talk to about 1 minute. Oh well, I passed the time by playing with Daddy’s phone and turning pictures of Parker into space aliens and bugs using the Paint application. It was a very good use of my time, if I do say so myself.
Lunch was a little different today. We made our way up to the other restaurant (Seven Seas) to have the standard cheese pizza and toasted peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Why stray from what you know?
Pool time! We hung out at the Nemo pool for over three hours! I made friends with a bunch of kids, but a girl my age named Angel and I really hit it off. We had so much in common. We were both six, we both had baby brothers, and we both had the very same flip-flops. BFF! Parker buddied up right away with her baby brother who was about nine months old. He kept saying, “Bebe! Bebe!” We played tag, mermaids, fairies, all that girl stuff! So when Momma said it was time to go, I was less than happy about it. But, I didn’t know what she had in store next!
Back in the room, Parker fell asleep as soon as his diaper was changed and Momma and I headed to the room with the spinning couches (the theater). We arrived a little early to our “class,” so we watched the end of the “Newlywed Game.” I guess it was funny, but I’m not sure what everyone was laughing about. No matter, because the best part was yet to come….it was a towel folding demonstration! You know those towel animals the people leave in your room when you’re gone? Well, I learned how to make an elephant AND a bulldog! We brought two different sized towels to the demo and got to go up on the stage in order to have room to lay out our towels. It was so much fun! Momma and I demonstrated our newly found talent for Daddy and Parker back in the room. I can’t wait to show my class how to make them!
The last dinner on the boat was pretty standard with some singing and dancing by the waiters and waitresses to accompany our cheese pizza and peanut butter and jelly sandwich. We finished up our last night with a musical show in the theater called “Shout” a towel on our bed in the shape of a heart, packing, paperwork, and little square chocolates! All’s well that ends with chocolate!
Momma Note: One of the questions asked in the Newlywed Game was something about “whoopee,” which Morgan thinks means “memory.” So, this is our conversation during the game:
Guy asking the question to the lady, “What was your most memorable place of whoopee?”
Morgan’s whispered response to me, “This boat is my best whoopee, Momma!”
Cruise – Day 5
