Day 2 of the Transatlantic Holland America cruise. We started the day off with an omelette with cheese, onions, mushrooms, and bacon and a sticky bun, which tastes like a cinnamon bun. I also started some world-schooling on Math and Langauge Arts, so I am working very hard on making that fun for myself. After I finish world-schooling I get to do fun activies like Trivia. We did not win. We lost by 7 and I know you are probably thinking “Wow that is not a lot”, but the questions are really hard. We also watched a cooking demonstration of how to make chicken with smoked cumen which sounds pretty good to me. The show was boring, but at least we got the recipe. Then we did some more Language Arts before we headed off to the Cabana for chcocolate dipped strawberries and champagne (don’t worry, I did not have any champagne). Afterwards we got dressed up for formal night and had a very scrumptious dinner.
Day 3 we got up at 8:30 and got the usual breakfast. Then Mom and I went to a craft class to make a recipe book with the recipes from Holland America Line. Man did they have cool recipes! After, I did more world-schooling on a langauge arts seqence chart. Then we went down to deck 2 and watched J.T., the Cruise Director, and Amy, the Spa Manager, in CHEF WARS. It was a cook off making hamburgers. J.T. won. After that we went up to deck 9 to play ping-pong. While we were playing ping-pong we watched Crew vs Guests at volleyball in the water and the guests won. Then we went back to our Cabana and read for a bit before going to tea. The tea was very good, but the food was meh. The napkins were reeeeeally small. After that we went to Guest Services and got my dad’s coat and hat. My dad forgot to bring his hat and coat, so our friend shipped it to the Fort Lauderdale cruise terminal. We went back to our cabin and chilled and blogged and read.
TO BE CONTINUED ...
Days 4-9 We were "at sea". Our days were the same - we got up and had the usual breakfast. We always tried o sit in the section where Nyoman was the server. He was very happy and always said HI to me.
After breakfast we did world schooling. Then we met up with our team for team trivia. Martin and Carol from Alabama and Rick and Sandra from North Carolina. We also met up with them to play other games like Scattergories, Euchre, Crazy Eights, Go Fish and RF.
This picture was taken on the day that we WON Team Trivia!!!!
Sometimes we went to afternoon tea and sometimes we played BINGO.
Most nights we had dinner in the dining room and my Dad always asked to sit with "nice, friendly people". We met some really interesting people at dinner.
One night we met a guy named Ron Cameron who has been in the Navy for 22 years and has also been on 110 cruises and a girl named Mari who was booked ont he Andrea Doria when she was 3 but she switched ships. I found these people so interesting that I decided to interview them for a separate blog post.
On another night, we had dinner with people from Germany and the other people were from Canada. We also had dinner with Mary from Canada. Mary told interesting stories. We met lots of people from Florida, too.
On the nights we didn't eat in the dining room we usually went to the buffet and brought the food back to the room and watched a movie. One night we watched Hotel Transylvania, one night we watched Minions, and on another night we watched When in Rome. We also watched an Indian film called Bride and Prejudice.
We made ribbon roses and cork place card holders with Melodye and mine turned out pretty good.
One night we went to Karaoke. I didn't sing, but our friend Rick sang.
We also went to the Chef Wars finale with Rick and Sandra and Martina nd Carol. It was very comical. Erwin, the Dining Room Manager, and JT, the Cruise Director, dressed up. Erwin was an Indonesian warrior and JT was his "wife". JT is a boy, so it was really funny.
On Day 10 we are finally back on land. We are in Funchal, Madiera, Portugal. My next blog post will be about Funchal.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Days 4-9 We were "at sea". Our days were the same - we got up and had the usual breakfast. We always tried o sit in the section where Nyoman was the server. He was very happy and always said HI to me.
After breakfast we did world schooling. Then we met up with our team for team trivia. Martin and Carol from Alabama and Rick and Sandra from North Carolina. We also met up with them to play other games like Scattergories, Euchre, Crazy Eights, Go Fish and RF.
This picture was taken on the day that we WON Team Trivia!!!!
Sometimes we went to afternoon tea and sometimes we played BINGO.
Most nights we had dinner in the dining room and my Dad always asked to sit with "nice, friendly people". We met some really interesting people at dinner.
One night we met a guy named Ron Cameron who has been in the Navy for 22 years and has also been on 110 cruises and a girl named Mari who was booked ont he Andrea Doria when she was 3 but she switched ships. I found these people so interesting that I decided to interview them for a separate blog post.
On another night, we had dinner with people from Germany and the other people were from Canada. We also had dinner with Mary from Canada. Mary told interesting stories. We met lots of people from Florida, too.
On the nights we didn't eat in the dining room we usually went to the buffet and brought the food back to the room and watched a movie. One night we watched Hotel Transylvania, one night we watched Minions, and on another night we watched When in Rome. We also watched an Indian film called Bride and Prejudice.
We made ribbon roses and cork place card holders with Melodye and mine turned out pretty good.
One night we went to Karaoke. I didn't sing, but our friend Rick sang.
We also went to the Chef Wars finale with Rick and Sandra and Martina nd Carol. It was very comical. Erwin, the Dining Room Manager, and JT, the Cruise Director, dressed up. Erwin was an Indonesian warrior and JT was his "wife". JT is a boy, so it was really funny.
On Day 10 we are finally back on land. We are in Funchal, Madiera, Portugal. My next blog post will be about Funchal.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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