Day four of our cruise was a day at sea so we got to participate in a bunch of fun activities on the ship. The first activity of the day was towel folding.
Some of the housekeeping staff came and taught us all how to fold towels into little animals. Each day when our rooms got cleaned we would find a new towel animal on our beds. This was fun to see each day. During the demonstration, the staff taught us how to fold an elephant, dog, and a monkey. I think our elephants turned out the best. It was kind of hard folding the towels because there were a lot of people and you needed a good sized area to fold the towels the right way. We made it work though and the kids enjoyed learning this art.
During the night the staff must have been busy folding all the towels because when we when out on the deck that morning to get breakfast, there were folded towel animals everywhere. There were animals on all of the lounge chairs and bar stools, all of the counter tops, and all along the edges of the pool. There were even some bigger blue and yellow towels folded to look like Minions. We were excited to look at all of them.
I don't know when they put all of the folded towel animals out but they were not there when Emily, Russell and I went for a run that morning. We ran around the ships track which was pretty fun except for dodging all of the people. We had to run like 7-8 laps to get a mile and we ended up running 3 miles. The best part was when you were running toward the back of the boat, you felt like you were going so fast because the boat was moving in the opposite direction under our feet. When we were running toward the front of the boat in the same direction as the ship, we felt really slow because the ship was going faster than we were. When you look at our Strava map of our running pattern, it looked really cool because it looked like we ran in a chain link pattern in the middle of the ocean. We were running circles as the ship was moving forward so our map kept moving forward but we seemed to be staying the same. So who knows we might not have actually ran 3 miles. Emily and I titled our Strava workout "Running on Water."
A little later in the day, we went to the Build-A-Bear workshop activity. We knew this would be a crowded one so we made sure to get there early. We were still like the 20th family there even though we were early. During the activity each of the kids got to pick a Build-A-Bear animal to stuff, dress, and give them a heart.
The process to fill the bear was interesting. First the kids picked an animal "skin" or shell. Then they gave the shell to the workers who put it on this big gumball-like machine and stuffed it full of stuffing. Once the animal was full of stuffing the kids moved to the next worker where the kids put in their heart and the worker "doctor" stitched the bear up. Each of the kids then picked out a shirt for their animal and their bear was complete! They all turned out so cute and they were the perfect souvenir for the kids. Emily chose the white Carnival bear, Colby chose the penguin, Logan of course chose the T-Rex because it looked like a dragon, Charlotte chose the rainbow bear and named her Rainbow, and Brooklyn chose the puppy and named him Chocolate Chip.
That afternoon, there was a kids parade throughout the ship and the kids wanted to be part of it. The theme for the Carnival's kids area is Dr Seuss so all of the characters on the ship are Dr. Seuss characters like the Cat in the Hat and Thing 1 and 2. Because of this, the theme of the kids parade was also Dr. Seuss so each family that wanted to participate held a banner of a Dr. Seuss book as they walked. Our family was "One Fish, Two Fish." Colby was really enthused about carrying the banner as you can tell because he wore his sunglasses the whole time!
The parade led us to the theater room where the entertainment staff put on a fun little Seussical play for us. They danced around, we helped Horton save the Who's by yelling "Yop!" and enjoyed the show.
Russell and Colby did not want to stay and watch the play so they took off and did their own thing. They decided to go to the top deck and see the ice carving. They said it was pretty amazing to watch this guy take a chunk of ice and carve it into a fish! The guy carved it pretty quickly too; in probably less than a half hour. Pretty impressive!
Finally it was time for the game we were waiting for all day. The Family Scavenger Hunt! The scavenger hunt was put on by the Kids' Zone. Each family that wanted to participate was given a list of things they had to find or do around the ship. To pass off each item, we had to take a selfie of us with that item. The family that could check off every task the shortest amount of time won the Big Prize! We were going to win! The competition was between us and about four other families. So when the lady said "Go!" we were off.
We had to do a bunch of different things like play corn hole, use the exercise equipment, eat pizza, eat ice cream, play mini golf, and take a picture of our favorite spot on the ship (the ice cream machine!).
We also had to use the glass elevator, wear sunglasses, find the Kids' Zone, the Carnival Funnel and more! The best was when we had form a Conga line with five other people from the ship. Russell was not scared at all to ask people for this. We just went to the little outdoor Pub near the pool and said come on we need your help to win! The people were more than happy to do the Conga with us because they were just having a good time a the bar.
Outside was really foggy this day so it was hard to see anything past the ship. Because of this, the fog horn on the ship was going off every few minutes to warn anyone out there that we were coming. The horn was so loud!! This made it hard for Charlotte and Brooklyn because they were scared of the loud horn. It was especially loud when we were next to the funnel and "playing" mini golf because that was where the fog horn was located.
Well we were quick! We were running everywhere we went dragging Brooklyn and Charlotte along. We made it back to the Kids' Zone in about 20 minutes with all of our things checked off. When we got back to the Kids' Zone the lady in charge was a little shocked to see us. We had to show her all of our pictures and she was impressed with how fast we had done it. So needless to say, WE WON!! In fact we won buy quite a bit. The next family to come in was like 10 minutes after us. We are #1!
The bounty of our Major Award was a bag full of Carnival swag as well as funny glasses, light sticks, and activity pages. So okay not the best prize but still something and the bragging rights made up the difference! We are the best!
By this time it was time for dinner. On the way to the dining area, we decided to stop for a few pictures with Thing 1 and Thing 2, Sam I Am, and the Cat in the Hat.
These pictures I actually took with my phone but I did have to do it on the sly because the photographers got mad. So that's why no one is looking at me in the picture. The characters were enthusiastic with the kids which was nice.
Since it was our last night on the ship, the dinner crew did a special performance during dinner. It was awesome to watch them dance around on the tables. They were very good and we were seated right in the middle of the show.
The dinner was pretty good that night too. We got to try frog legs for the first time. They were actually not bad.
After dinner we went to the night show called The World Rocks. In this show there was a little parade of all of the crew members and all of the countries they were from. There were so many international crew members from just about every country. At the end, the kids from the Teen Zone got up and did a song. Colby and Emily were part of the group that went up to do the song.
For their part, they did sign language to the song "Wonderful World." They did a great job and it was fun to watch them on stage. For doing the performance they received a little Carnival flag. Colby said it was not worth it. Ha!
That night there was a big light show dance party on the upper deck to celebrate the last night on the cruise.
Russell, Emily and Colby went out and partied it up. They had a blast dancing and waving their light sticks around. The other kids were tired and just wanted to go back to the room and watch a movie. I was glad to go with them too because I had a lot of packing and repacking to do before we left in the morning.
This had been a fun cruise and we were sad it was our last night on the ship. We made sure to get some more ice cream before we went to bed.
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