A Day at Sea:

Today we were (recovering, haha) at sea, and the ship has really been booking to Ocho Rios, Jamacia, and I can really tell. The ship has been rocking back and forth all day and I can NOT wait to get to port! The rocking is annoying, especially when I'm sitting down (like right now). I wouldn't say I've been seasick - except one night earlier when Talia woke me up and I had to crawl into the bathroom to find the ginger tablets - but I can really tell that we're moving. According to what the Captain said earlier in an announcement, we're going at about 19 nautical miles/hour, and I know the ship's top speed is 21, so we're not exactly crawling.
	Today was the tour of the ship's galley - and really, the tour itself was boring. The tours they show on the Travel Channel give more detail - and no, I didn't ask where the "banana cooler" (ie morgue) is.

The highlight was meeting our new Japanese friends, who took a liking to Talia and gave her a monchichi phone charm and an origami crane. Talia was being her usual stubborn self and didn't want to have them take her picture - then she did - then she didn't - then she did. rolling my eyes Chris ran upstairs to get Stephen and his postcards and he gave one to them.


Later this evening, when Chris and I were wandering around in the casino, we met up with them again and the one lady handed me two tiny cranes - one in pink paper and one in blue. I'll be sure to save these for the kids for when they are older.
The kids ate dinner with Camp tonight. Talia loves going to camp - Stephen prefers to stay in the room and play with his Game Boy or his Legos. I've been giving him a bit of freedom to come up here on his own and he's been great. He does, however, like to go with Camp to see the Vegas-style shows, and he's looking forward to the magic show tomorrow night. So Chris and I had dinner alone tonight in our dining room. I think Beatrice (our assistant waitperson) was disappointed that the kids were not there - she likes trying to convince Talia to let her have her dessert. She brings us our bread (and tries to bring us more), fills our water glasses, and gets Chris' double espresso and my cappuccino after dinner. Joshua is our main waiter and he takes good care of us. The Maitre'D has stopped by every night and tonight he mentioned that we were "lonely" 'cause the kids were gone, and I said NOOOOOO, lol. He laughed. :^D We picked up the kids at 10 from Camp and Talia was really mad 'cause she wanted to finish watching whatever movie it was. She finally conked out at about 11 in the room, after she took a shower. Now Stephen is finishing up his burrito from room service and I'm just about ready to try to find a comfortable position to sleep in. That is, if the Captain stops hitting all the bumps on this stupid ocean!

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