It\u2019s 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
\nvacation lala land. So I know today was Sunday, instead of just a day at
\nsea. The kids were up early as usual. After breakfast R went to the
\nkids 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\u2019s 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
\nchairs around it. He was happy there for about an hour. Then he got
\nrestless, 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\u2019d like a turn holding him too! I just smiled.
\n No way lady, I\u2019m not handing my sleeping child over to you! But she ment well.
\nJ 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
\nwas the only one right in the water. They set up this \u2018Mongolian Grill\u2019
\non 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
\nbig grill. Nice. There was also sliced mango at the buffet, sushi,
\ndevilled eggs, a frightfully good Caesar salad, well you get the picture.
\n We ate on the pool deck. It was very windy, but delightful none the
\nless. J got lots of attention as he always seems to do here. R is
\nsomewhat jealous, but then someone tells her how much they liked her dancing, or her braids and she is mollified.
\nI put J down for a nap and listened to my audiobook. He slept for a
\nwhopping 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
\nstudio. The photographer stopped me, and told me J was famous already.
\nSure enough there were super cute portraits of J and R, both prominently
\ndisplayed. Later in the evening, I heard a woman in the elevator say
\n\u201coh, there is the baby from the photo studio!\u201d. Yup, famous all right.
\nSupper 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
\nthat the kids that stay up late are also the kids that sleep in. Kids
\nlike 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
\nher go! Well we\u2019ll likely pay for it, but she went for a while. There
\nare 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.
\nTomorrow is San Juan and we\u2019ll see what new adventures that brings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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