Day six on the cruise

Day six was in Freeport, Bahamas, which for all intents and purposes, is a waste of a port. We tried to make the best of it at the public beach.

Not quite as clean as yesterday's beach. And that was the extent of the beach- it was about 15 feet deep from water's edge to the fence.

On the cab ride back to the ship.

When we got back to the ship, we tried out the waterslide on the back of the ship. Very cool.

My new favorite picture of them.

We went back to our room to take a little nap. I woke Addie up, we showered and then got ready for the last formal night. She and I headed down to the lounge for karaoke one last time.

waiting patiently. No one was in the lounge, so we were sort of flabbergasted. I noticed Melvin, the karaoke host was chatting with a couple off the side. So Addie went over and nicely asked Melvin if karaoke was going to happen. Turns out that couple came down specifically to listen to karaoke but no one else had shown up. So Melvin gave Addie the songbook and the man from the couple offered to "warm Addie up" while she chose her song. Addie agreed, while we chatted with his wife. He started singing his song (and he clearly was a karaoke guy) and then the screen froze. While Marvin tried to fix it, the man ad-libbed some song to his wife. Addie was so impressed with his song writing skills. His wife was so nice and so happy to talk with us. Addie was her usual self and the lady was so praising of Addie. As time dwindled away, Melvin announced that he couldn't get the screen to work, but he had background music still. Addie said she was confident she could remember the words well enough, so she'd give it a try. The man was shocked, telling Addie there's no way he could even attempt to do what she was going to do. By this time, the room was filled with people bustling about what was going on.

Video will be loaded on Youtube momentarily....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA8ts5BOZkY

This is afterwards, with Addie signing her first autograph. She printed and wrote her name in cursive. The woman who was known as the Diva of Karaoke of the ship shook Addie's hand and told her she was willing to share the spotlight with Addie. Each person who talked to us afterwards was saying that they expected to see Addie's name in lights one day.

The handsome boys.

waiting for the show to start that night

At the comedy show that that night. It was funny, Ben was exhausted and falling asleep in my arms eventually. The comedian was doing a shtick about how parents used to be allowed to hit their kids (Addie wanted nothing to do with sitting there listening to this topic, which is reassuring). So Ben is laying in my arms, nodding off when the comedian says, "clap if your parents ever hit when you were little." Many people in the audience start clapping. Ben's hands start clapping! Then the comedian says, "clap your hands if your parents used to beat you til you cried." Again the audience claps and sleeping Ben's hands are clapping too! It was unreal and hysterical.

Here's a video of the waterslide on the ship. Brian and Addie and Ben must've gone up those stairs at least 30 times each!