End of the cruise

 We get a beautiful last day on the boat with Oscar enjoying his time at kids’ club to the point where he gets to stay all damn night practically

while they watch a movie in their pjs.  We have been going up there for their family get togethers for building a volcano, rawing together and bingo.  We’ve enjoyed the kids’ club immensely and I ope that the one on the Hawaii cruise is hal as good.  We head to trivia where I’m trying again to down play our chances of winning it all, but Oscar is nothing if not confident when it’s not warranted.  We sit down to play and he knows the first answer off the bat and feels great.  And then the

other 19 questions are things that he has no clue about and then he gets upset.  But the good news is that mommy is pretty sure of all of her answers.  We only miss two questions and are tied with another group, but the trivia guy wants Oscar to win today, so the tiebreaker question is about Spongebob Squarepants best friend….which, unfortunately, mommy has to answer again.  But it means that we get gold medals for winning trivia and you can’t imagine a happier kid.  We play a find

the nations game too where you have to talk to as many crew members as you can from different countries.  We get the silver medal in this game and our dominance on the ship is complete!  Oscar has learned to enjoy shuffleboard, playing with kids that he is just meeting, and pick up soccer on the deck.  We have been able to return to the feeling that we can cruise without a kid constantly with us throughout the day and have been able to sit and enjoy.  We’re cruising the inside passage on this last day and there are views of porpoises chasing through our wake, pods of orca hunting off to the side.  We hit everything we wanted on this last day of this cruise and it feels magical finally.