Day 10

At Sea

William got me up early to eat breakfast. We went to the pool after. Eventually meeting up with most of the gang.

I took the 3 kids to the lecture "Killer Asteroids: I guess size matters after all!" Which the kids seemed to enjoy, especially when they passed around meteorites to hold & feel. Fun!

I took the kids up to poolside & met up with Beth, the folks & the big kids. Then Eli took the kids to see "Blades: the Ice Challenge" at Studio B.

Beth & I finally enjoyed our pina coladas at poolside, & soaked in the hot tub, too. Then we went to find Eli & the kids at 4, and got into the poolside games, actually competing against each other as team captains. Fun! We tied for second place & chose our swimmers to race each other, my guy was a teen with a stitched lip from an ice skating accident: alphaalpha alpha: the code for medical emergency. My guy was also a water polo player and was trained to swim competitively & do a flip a the opposite side.

We all met up again, & dressed for dinner.

At dinner, the captain announced that the ship had turned around, because a passenger had a stroke & had to be medically evacuated.

I felt so bad for the man with the stroke, which should be treated as soon as possible for optimal chance of recovery, minutes matter, and here we were 5 hours back to meet the coast guard. What a bad way to start the New Year.

Earlier, Beth & Eli had looked at our shop's progress on the TV, and saw the arrow pointing south, and concluded that this mush have been a mistake.

But at dinner the captain announced that, as we might have noticed, we were headed south to meet the coast guard to evacuate a passenger who was ill. The evacuation would take place at 10pm and we can watch on CCTV (closed curcuit).

Our cabin face the heloport, which is also the forward observation deck, so we invited everyone to come there.