We were up early for our day in Honduras. I thought we docked at 8am but it turned out to be 10am so we had a little extra time. I had decided on a private driver for this port. I had hoped to visit a Honduran elementary school and donate school supplies but when I contacted the school I learned they would be on a break. There was a place we could play with monkeys so we did plan to do that but other than that we were planning on playing it by ear and following the advice of our private tour guide.
After breakfast we were in the room packing up for our day when the captain made an announcement. The winds were too rough to dock safely so we would not be able to stop in Honduras. We would spend the day at sea slowing making our way to arrive at our next port as scheduled. We were obviously disappointed.
Surprisingly Carnival didn’t have a boiler plate plan to roll out so we waited while they came up with a schedule of activities for the day. Jason headed out to find his own entertainment. When he surfaced again he told us he had been playing corn hole and that he and his partner were smoking the other players and he wanted us to come play with him.
When Mike and I got down there we were amused, but not surprised, that he had made friends with a sizeable group of seniors (the grey haired kind, not the high school kind). He had been playing with them for a couple of hours and was his charming self. He spent most of his day there.
Mid afternoon the whole family went to play Win, Loose of Draw in the theater. The group was divided into two teams and the host selected the drawers to come up on stage. Jason was called on early in the game to draw. The first two drawings were “goat” and “Elvis”. When Jason reached in and selected what he was supposed to draw, the hosts asked him if he knew what it was and he said no. They whispered to him, he nodded and was set to draw. He successfully drew enough to get one of the guys on our team to call out the correct answer… “Push Up Bra”. We got a point and the whole theater good a good laugh.
Jason went back to corn hole while Sam went to get an airbrush tattoo.
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| Sam took a break from her Chi-Chi writing assignment to show off her tatoo |
Late in the afternoon there was a laser tag game. An inflated bounce course was set up in the theater. Only five people were allowed to play at a time with each game lasting five minutes. The waiting players sat in rows in the theater. Jason sat next to another 11 year boy from Michigan. They decided to play mini golf together. Sam, Mike and I went to play mini golf too, only we stayed behind them a few holes.
After dinner we had a quiet night in the room and were in bed early in anticipation of another great port.
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| Kids in their room |
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