So yesterday was NUTS! I was kinda everywhere all at once, and things were happening in the early part of the night that made things kinda choppy and skippy in our vacation day. There were 7 of us on last night but with all or some of us being AFK a lot off and on at first, it took a while to get through all the things we were doing. But! We did all kinds of things yesterday!
Our day started with Dev in his snorkel ready to swim, but I had to tell him we had a few late arrivals joining us on the ship, so we headed to the helipad. When we got there, My sister Ella, brother Noah, & my oldest son Skotty were just arriving. It was so great to have Skotty and the kids join us. Soon after they got settled, Dev told them about the caviar, and the boys just hasd to taste the fish eggs. Ella passed on the caviar, and then we all got a quick refreshing drink before heading to play greedy.
We had a good time playing greedy, the kids and I were cracking up because the "poop deck" kept getting mentioned, and we met a couple new kids on board the ship. Devon... AS USUAL (hehehe) whooped our butts at greedy and we finally were able to go to the pool!
We had a ball at the pool, we swam, played on floaties, dove in, and played on the water slide! it was excellent! Suddenly we had a new late arrival, Kiya! So Ella, Noah & the lifeguards looked after the kids while Lia & I quickly got Kiya settled in and ready to come play at the pool. We swam for a while longer, but then Lia hatched a new plan for us!
Lianna decided that the kids should take over the ship, so we went to the place where the captain and the important ship driving people hang out. The room was empty when we got there, I suppose they had the boat on cruise control! Apparently, even through the kids' attempts at pushing lots of buttons.. we were safe! So Dev decided to call a meeting. It went pretty well until Dev asked me how the old people on the ship were doing...sigh... And then shortly after that, Ella decided she was going to take over the meeting and bribe everyone with cookies!
This was where the mommy mode popped back and I decided before things got more wild.. the kids had to have dinner first. Little did I know.. there was about to be an elevator fiasco! Some kids got on and went down.. Dev pushed all the buttons, some kids and I were left on the top floor, I took some stragglers down to our floor, rode back up to get Noah, then pulled out the mommy megaphone and told them all to get to where I was or else! Er yeah.. it was mostly like that. Except instead of threatening their butts.. I seemingly typoed and threatened their nutts.. SIGH! I hate typos! It made for another hilarious moment though. Once they were all gathered, I shooed them all into the suite, gave them some time to get dressed up for dinner, and then whisked us off to sushi!
The kids were NOT impressed, most of them ordered from the kids menu, but Dev did try the sushi! He made a mess! The other kids tried eating their normal american food with chopsticks, it was great! I was mostly relieved that they were busy dealing with chopsticks and not all over the place again!
We enjoyed our dinner, and I got the kids back upstairs and gave them a before bed snack/dessert. Right after that, they slipped into jammies and joined me on the couch for a story. It was finally almost bedtime, and I was exhausted. So I read the kids "Ten in the bed" and they helped me read & sang along.
After the story, I tucked all the kiddos in, made a few last silly commenst and then promptly passed out on the couch trying to make a digital video, and post it to the blog... that is why this post is soooo late in coming!
I had a blast with everyone, it was a great time! Even though I almost spent 700L's just on pictures.. it was SO worth it!
Looking forward to day 4!
See ya soon!
oh er.. it was 6 children 1 adult.. I goofed!
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