Days 23 & 24 – Days 6 & 7 Pirates of the Caribbean Cruise

Friday 10^th January 2014 and Saturday 11th just steaming the high seas headed back to Fort Lauderdale in Florida where we will disembark the ship at sparrows fart on the 12th January so we can make our flights onto Las Vegas.

Amongst other things of doing not much at all, we had 2 all important housekeeping chores to do.

1: HAND WASHING. Now, let me tell you what a drag it is trying to get these lads to hand wash just a few items each of their clothing.  Given how much their Grandma Duplex insists to hand wash I would have thought that the art and love of hand washing would have been in the family genes and come easily, but apparently not.

Our hand washing hanging out to dry

(Check out the towel monkey hanging from the roof, our cabin man used to make us a different animal every second night, we also had a dog, elephant and racoon (we think)) 

 

Hazza drying his shirt with a hair dryer

 

2: PACKING. The next drag is getting these boys to get their back packs squared away.  We have to be off the ship pretty early tomorrow morning so the bulk of our packing has to be done today.  They weren’t being very compliant in their packing obligations, so I sent them out of the cabin and told them to come back in hour.  This is what they returned to:

This is another trick Grandma Duplex used on me back in the day, she would pile all my stuff in my doorway so I had to put it away.  This couch folds out to their bed, so it couldn’t be turned into their bed until the items had been packed away.  I was nice, I even got their packs out from under the bed where they had been stored and popped them on a bench or a bed so they didn’t have to bend too far to make the packing easier for them.

We also gave some activities a go: ice skating, rock climbing and zip lining (although the zip lining is questionable as there is no photo evidence, just Macks word for it and sometimes that word is stretched a little)

 

 

 

 Hazza and I - Another real selfie