Sea day

If you follow this blog at all, you know that kids’ camp turned out

to be a real wash for us last cruise.  Oscar refused to go or if he did would deliberately have accidents to get out of there.  So, I’m just hoping for a place that he will go for a few hours of quiet, but am pleasantly surprised that he loves it.  Loves it to the point

 that there are times we consider leaving him in there while we go explore a port.  We take him out only for meals (because they close some times and because he doesn’t want to eat with everyone else) and when we would have to pay more if he stayed longer (10pm

   at night).  He loves it in there and this is so wonderful.  John and I get to go to some comedy shows, hang out on the deck with Julie and Dave drinking and talking and get to remember how great cruising without a kid was long ago.  After I throw a fit in the dining

  room, there are crackers and peanut butter waiting at our table every night with crayons and we start keeping a bag of menus, crayons and things that keep the kids entertained.  When they give them 3 crayons and one is yellow which you can’t see, with 4 kids, all you

 get is whining and angry kids.  We start taking Oscar to kids’ camp as soon as it opens before we have dessert in order to enjoy some time without him throwing a fit at the table.  We have a fraudulent situation going on with the beverage package and John has 

 nightmares about being caught in an ethical dilemma.   It’s really quite funny when you think about it and I didn’t know that his conscious would bother him so much.  But, there it is.  I’m happy with the situation, because I don’t feel the need to drink too much myself in order to feel like I got my monies worth because I’m getting drinks for me, John and Julie at different

times.  In this way, I’m actually keeping up with the other Carnival cruisers who Julie and Dave are a bit shocked at.  Not only, can you see the people on the deck who are clearly inebriated or heading rapidly towards it, these parents talk about the kids’ camp takes care

 of things because one dad passed out without picking up his son and woke up the next morning to find that they had brought him his son to the cabin.  Special.  Julie says that the entertainment shows are like high school musicals and not as good as the ones on Norwegian and I’ll have to take her word for it, because I don’t go to these shows on Carnival and this might be the reason we stopped going to them in the first place because they were awful.