After all the food we had eaten & how much we had slept, we all woke up pretty early on day 3 & decided to go exercise in the gym. Trek & I ran 1.5 miles on the track, while Lorien, Elijah, & the rest of the kids went & did weights in the weight room & used the treadmills in the air conditioned room.
After running, I went with Taya to do Zumba for an hour. We had a blast. It was dancing & exercise at the same time so I was feeling great for the day.
While we were all exercising, our room attendant was in our rooms cleaning them up & making cute little towel animals for us.
Once everyone was cleaned up & showered, & breakfast was eaten, we made our way to the carousel for the family photo scavenger hunt. It was a blast. We had to race all around the ship & take photos at all the major things on the ship. The first 3 families to complete all the tasks won prizes. We didn't win, but we had a blast & have some great pictures from it.
Ice skaters at the ice skating rink. . .
Playing the piano at the dueling pianos bar. . .
Running on the track. . .
Lifting weights in the gym. . .
Playing air guitar at the music hall. . .
Video: Singing "Let it Go" in front of the karaoke bar. . .
Eating sushi at the sushi restaurant. . .
Playing basketball at the basketball court. . .
Surfing. . .
Dancing Gangnum Style in front of the carousel. . .
We had a lot of laughs & enjoyed the family time together.
After the scavenger hunt, we split up to do things each person wanted to do. Lorien, Elijah, Opa, Oma, & Tuhk all went on a "behind the scenes" food tour of the kitchens on the ship. Lorien really really wanted to see the kitchens so when our waiter in the dining room mentioned this tour, we signed her & Elijah up for it. They had a blast.
Some of the kiddos surfed, some rode the slides, some did rock climbing. . . I explored some more. Taya & I got some lunch in the Windjammer buffet (I got mediterranean again).
All the boys went surfing & body boarding again.
Just before dinner, the whole family had tickets to see the play on the ship: The Wizard of Oz. I was completely in awe at how incredible that play was. The actors were amazing, the sets were gorgeous, & the effects were magical. It was a fully immersive play so you felt like you were IN IT. Dorothy flew over our heads in her bed while the tornado blew the entire audience. My hair was flying everywhere. When Glinda put a spell on everyone with the poppy flowers, the entire audience got showered with bubbles. The whole play started out in black & white & turned to color as soon as they entered Oz. The effect were crazy good. That was one of the best plays I've ever seen in my life.
After the play got out, we had 10 minutes to head over to dinner. It was fabulous. The chicken parm was to die for, & my favorite part was the Italian chocolate cake. . . which wasn't cake at all, but a bowl of what looked like hot cake batter. It was SO SO SO good.
After dinner, all the boys wanted to go rock climbing so we watched them for a while.
Video: Trek Rock Climbing
Video: Canyon Rock Climbing
Then we headed back to our favorite place to play board games as a family. We played Dal Muti this time & everyone loved it. Poor Tuhk had a hard time with his treats that night. He ordered special crepes (for his food sensitivities), got it to the table with his water, then Trek accidentally spilled Tuhk's water all over everything including the cards. Tuhk put his crepe on the table next to him & got up to get some napkins to clean it up & the worker picked up his crepe thinking he was done with it, so when he got back, his crepe was gone. (Those workers are so efficient. We didn't even notice him come grab it or we would have stopped him). Tuhk cleaned up the water & put down a new water, then got up to get another crepe, & another worker took his water. Poor guy. It was so frustrating for him, but it was really comical because there were 15 of us at these tables & NONE OF US could stop the workers fast enough.
We played until 10, then went to bed because we had an EARLY morning the next day.
St. Thomas, here we come.
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