Day Four of the Cruise

Day Four was our first day off the ship. Our first port of call was Grand Turk in Turks and Caicos. The beach was very odd. Under the water was essentially moon rocks. That's exactly what it looked and felt like (I imagine at least, since I haven't actually been to the moon). It was cratered and weird, but still cool. The sand was beautiful and the water was crystal clear.

Doesn't that look like a post card?

Addie and Ben were quite content to play in the sand. They enjoyed the ocean too though.

Even Amy came out for the trip! And then it started to rain. At first we were like "ok, no biggie." Then it started to pour and the locals were like "it'll be over in 5 minutes." An hour later, still huddled under a beach umbrella the rain finally stopped and we were able to enjoy the island more. They have a huge Margaritaville in the middle with a huge pool that was fun too. Then we headed back to the ship in time for lunch.

The view from the ship.

After lunch and while we were sailing to our next port, we participated in the Camp Carnival Family Digital Scavenger Hunt. The teams were the four of and PopPop versus Scott, Keri, Graham and MomMom. We met at Camp Carnival, were given the list of things we need to photograph and were told to be back within the hour, first team back wins.

The first thing was to go to the Lido Deck and have your parents do a "hang ten."

Then you had to get 10 people not in your party together to do a conga line, which actually was ridiculously difficult to get people to stand together for a picture! People were so resistant.

Then we had to have a picture of one of us with ice cream smashed on our face.

BUT you know us, we needed two pictures of that fun!

Then we had to pick one Carnival employee and have them be our "Employee of the Day" and pose with them.

Then we had to go to the Atrium on the bottom level and have two team members do the chicken dance. We had to video and photograph it.

We needed a picture of the whole team with a "We love Camp Carnival" sign.

We needed to start at level one and using only the stairs take a picture of the landing at each level all the way up to 11!

And we had to have a picture of each team member with a smiley face on our foreheads. We used lipstick and this poor lady in the hall had no idea why I asked her to take our picture or why we had lipstick on our foreheads!

There were some bonus things we needed to collect along the way: an umbrella, something with the Carnival logo on it, the Carnival Times of the day, an entertainment staff person's signature and two different types of coffee stirrers. We grabbed all those things along the way and rushed back to Camp Carnival....

AND WE WON! Addie and Ben each got a trophy and we got a certificate. Another family team came in second. Graham's team came in third. They all still got trophies too.

Enjoying the beautiful water on one of the decks.

At dinner that night, Susilo made Ben a hat.

The kids went to Camp Carnival's pirate night while we went to the adult comedy show.

Then we all went up to the Lido deck at 11pm for a deck dance party.

Addie and Ben danced the whole hour, collecting beads along the way (the safe way, I promise!). By the end of the night, we were sweaty messes and their pirate make-up looked more like black eyes!

That night we had to go to bed to get energy for our next day at port!

This is video of what went down during the rain delay...