Day 9: Day At Sea (Part 3)

Like the last day at sea, I wanted to wake up early again to do the early morning Walk a Mile. I even set the phone alarm so that I could do so. When the phone went off, I was still not feeling well from the night before and just decided to go back to sleep for an hour. Ended up waking up around 9:30, and ended up missing the walk a mile for the morning and the Yoga class that I wanted to try out. That’s okay anyway. I would have had to pay more to do the Yoga class.

I got ready pretty quickly and while everyone else was getting ready, tried to fit in a mile up at the track. The winds were very strong, so I really only got half a mile in before I gave up and decided to head back downstairs. Everyone was still getting ready and after they were done, we went upstairs to go say hi to everybody in the library before heading over to the Anchors Away Lounge for Swing Dance lessons. Umma forced Andrew and James to do the class. We could not successfully wake Gianni up and Mia refused to participate. It was kind of fun, but the fact that I was dying of a cold made me all sweaty, disgusting, and congested by the end of the class. We stopped by the stores on the way back to the Library to go pick up some cold medicine for me. We went to the library to get those who wanted to eat to come down to the Romeo and Juliet restaurant for brunch with us.

In addition to the usual crew (minus Gianni who was still asleep), we managed to get Nicole to come eat with us alone. This was a lot of fun because it’s been a hard game getting her to like us each day, but Chabba was very clearly stressed the entire time because he was worried her mood would change at any second.

After lunch, Umma Oppa and I went to the Internet Café so I could check my email and make sure that things were running more or less smoothly on the Internet front. I was using it semi-successfully until Oppa and I got frustrated at the Internet being slow. We also were using up too many minutes (because Internet is so expensive on the ship) and had to go downstairs for trivia anyway, so we went downstairs. We missed the first few questions, but Chabba, Uncle Alex, Aunt Chicca, and Mia already seemed to be cracking away at the questions. Ended up losing that one. There was another trivia going on very shortly after, so I just decided to bring my laptop up to the Schooner Bar, blog and wait around for it to start. I didn’t end up getting much done because we ended up having a lot less time than I thought we did. It’s all good though. While we were waiting, Andrew and Gianni were playing around with the walkie-talkies to see if they would work. While they were playing around with them, Umma managed to trick Andrew into thinking that he was in trouble for interfering with the captain’s radio signal. I think he actually believed that because he used private calls after that.

The next team trivia started and we actually did fairly well on this one. We had Chabba and Oppa for this one and a lot of the questions were history related, so we got a lot of extra points. We ended up losing by one point. We probably could have gotten that one point if Chabba had been paying attention to what he was reading on Athens because one of the answers was literally on the page he was reading. I was most proud of how we managed to answer the question about what day of the week John Lennon got shot. Mia knew the date, so I used the computer calendar to look up the day of the week it would have been. Oh, technology.

I dragged Chabba and Andrew upstairs after that to do a mile of walking. It was still very windy, so it was kind of hard. We would have done more, but I had to meet Umma downstairs for bingo. The set up was similar, except instead of doing two games on one card, we did three. Still did not win, but we were a lot closer.

I sent a group ahead of us while we were still playing the Bingo game so that we could do the movie trivia. Didn’t do too well there in the end though. Lost to the Super Trivia family who I think have collected an extremely large collection of goods by now. As far as trivia went for our family, today was not the best day for us. Actually quite embarrassing, if I must add.

I went to the gym after that, but was not around for too long. It was kind of crowded, but I managed to run on the treadmill for 15 minutes and ride the bike for another 20. Good work out all in all, but did nothing to burn off the cruise food I’ve accumulated I am sure. Went downstairs after that for the shower. Today was our yellow day, so we all emerged from our rooms looking like the sun. I’m sure everyone thought we were weirdos.

We went to the show for the night, which was put on by some singer. He was really good and very food. Had a great voice and did a great Nat King Cole tribute. Umma kicked Mia and me out a little early though so we could go embarrass ourselves at family trivia. We didn’t do that badly, actually, but we were very upset at getting the question wrong that asked what show the Muppets appeared on regularly. You would think that answer would be the Muppet Show, but it’s actually Sesame Street. I disagree, but whatever.

We had dinner, which was good as usual. Had vegetarian chili and a number of other great dishes for dinner. Tiramisu for dessert. Yum. I was not feeling great after dinner. We ended up hanging around in the center area outside of the restaurant afterwards, but I went downstairs to sleep shortly after. Had to get a little better in preparation for Athens anyway.