APRIL 5: Friday and a Sea Day

Ahh, those dreaded sea days of trying to entertain ourselves. I "slept in" until 7am and the family was getting up about the same time. I scoured the room in search for a guilty party. I'm glaring at Karl. I'm glaring at Sakari. They look at each other and finally I get a "What?!?"   My reply was "Who did it?" They both looked confused. I explained to them I got a pillow in the face last night. They both started laughing. Oh....was it a mutual decision? Was I snoring? Why did I get a pillow thrown at me?  Karl said that it's "usually him" because Sakari would drop her pillow off the bed while sleeping. I guess it was my lucky night. We all laughed and I told her "I'm keeping one eye open tonight and watching you young lady".  

We headed off to breakfast for some yummy omelets. 

We went out and sat in the sun for awhile because unlike yesterdays 86° weather, we were heading back to California and it was already getting colder again.

The kids decided they wanted to go do some shopping and off they went. I guess the stores weren't open yet so they text me saying they were heading to the library to play some games. 

I told the hubby, let's go to the casino, only put $20 in 1 machine, your choice, and play it until we win more or ....don't. 

I walked away with an extra $35 the hubby walked away broke. Although my winnings offset his loss, we had some fun and was only down $5 for the day.

We decided to go find the kids and there they were in the library playing chess. Oh the concentration going on!

The shops were now open and we all decided to have a look around. I was in hope that I would find a ship ornament and the lady that said they didn't have them was wrong. Well, she wasn't. Still no ornaments. 😞  The kids said they were going to go walk around and the hubby and I decided we would walk floor by floor and take pictures of the ship for this review. Then we would meet back up at the room.

So this is where things got interesting...and expensive. When we met back up at the room, Karl says "I owe you some money". Wait, what happened?  He proceeded to tell me that they went to the arcade and he was playing the claw game and trying to win an ipad out of it. He kept having to swipe his card....63 times!!! He didn't know that it charged you each time. "So I guess I owe you $63 now"  Wait, did you at least win anything? "Nope! But I was so close". I watched a show on this once and these machines are rigged. Even if you are spot on, if it's not due to win it will make it off. Lesson learned newbie...nothing is free.

He also said he had bought a Carnival sweatshirt. He said he paid for it using his bank card. Wait what? How does this work? No way. I've never been on a ship that you can use your bank or credit card. It always goes on your Carnival account. But, he showed me his receipt with his bank card on it and I checked our account and he was right. When did they start doing this???

Our room steward came in to clean so we needed to go find something to do. It's been many years ago but we used to take Sakari to the Dr Suess Storytime and I said in a baby voice "Kari, you want to go see Dr Suess" while jumping up and down in excitement like a kid.

She's such a trooper and played along...jumping up and down and saying "yes, yes, yes" and off we went. Hey, it gave us something to do right?

It had been a few hours since we ate, so we headed up to the pool deck in search of lunch. We ended up stopping at the Blue Iguana and I had a bowl of goodness!

There was a towel animal on the loose!

It was time for fun and games on the pool deck. Would it be the Mr Hairy contest? Nope, it was water aerobics instead. They formed 2 teams of 3 people on each team. One was adults and the other was some teens. Now mind you...it's COLD outside at this point. The water is freezing but that don't stop people from sunning with their bathing suits or a few that are undoubtedly part polar bear from getting in the pool. 

Each team had to make up a routine and they would play music while doing it. They only had a certain amount of time to complete it and the best routine won. 

The adults went first. 

Then the kids went...and absolutely blew them away with the things they decided to do.

I'm pretty sure it was obvious to everyone who was the clear winner. BUT...the staff decided to give them another chance. At this point they are all out of the water, wrapped in multiple towels and shivering. Yep, they were going to have to do it again. 

This time they told them to do a new routine and the kids went first. 

While the kids tried to come up with something new (and did) when it was time for the adults, their routine was new BUT only new to them because they were doing some of the things the kids had made up. LOL   This time they took off their life jackets (which was required on the first round) and they topped off their routine with....

Back to the room and we decided to challenge each other to some Uno. I won, I won, and won again. We probably played 20 rounds and poor Karl did not win one time. Of course he said "Well I'll challenge you to another game of chess then!" LOL

The kids decided to nap and we watched some tv for awhile and it was time to head to the comedy show. Tonight we would be seeing Comedian Spencer. He was funny and we enjoyed the show. 

Then it was back to the room to dress up and head to dinner. We had decided on the MDR tonight. We have learned to check in early so that we have time to get ready. 

Tonight they seated us in the back of the dining room and the service was EXCELLENT!! They were fast and attentive. We spoke to Carlos, which was the lead server. He told us about his job and how much he loved it. He said it usually takes around 18 months of being a server before you become a lead like him. He said a lot of people refuse the position but he absolutely loved it. We told him what a good job him and his team were doing tonight. 

After dinner, we were off to see a show: Celestial Strings. Man those people could play! I thought the show was good. However, there were a lot of people leaving during the show in our area. 🤷‍♀️

After that, I'm looking at my Carnival app and GUESS WHAT!!! TONIGHT WAS THE WHITE HOT PARTY!! We didn't miss it after all. Woo Hoo! We were so excited. 

They were having it in the atrium and off we went. 

Dion was doing his thing and dancing on the bar below...as always, getting carried away. He really can sing good though. He gets the crowd going. However, he does the same routine at every show...he'll be singing and the music stops and he keeps going and it escalates and then he stops like "oh, sorry about that I got carried away" while looking at the DJ. Same thing every time. While it's funny and entertaining at first, after awhile, it kinda got old (at least IMO).

He really got the crowd going and this lady was really into the song and he noticed. 

He definitely has a lot of energy!

Crowd participation at its finest...on all levels. We had such a good time. 

The party went on until 11:30pm and then back to the room and off to bed we went...me, hoping for no pillows to the face tonight.