Sea Olympics

Mayhem. One word that describes it all. The Sea Olympics. All the seas have been preparing for weeks, making flags, practicing their synchronized swimming routines, making cheers, and mentally preparing to win. The stakes were high –the winning sea gets off the ship 1st in Florida. It started the night we got back from Mauritius with a bbq on the deck and the opening ceremonies. Everyone was going crazy. It reminded me of homecoming except with 10 competing groups instead of 4. Our sea, the Arabian sea was the only one to make matching shirts for everyone. After the opening ceremonies, they played Slumdog Millionaire for us! It was such a good movie and right before we get to India too (3 more days!). All the Olympic competitions were scheduled for the next day (no classes!) but I ended up sleeping for half the day because my roommate kept me awake all night coughing. Seriously, I don’t know how she breathed because she coughed the ENTIRE night and kept going in and out of the room. I was heated, needless to say, I love my sleep. So at around 1 when my friends were getting worried because they hadn’t seen me anywhere, they came and dragged me out of bed to go lay out on the top deck. Vanessa and I judged the mashed potato sculpting contest, one of many events. There was also volleyball, dodgeball, flip-cup, limbo, Sudoku, spelling bee, tug-o-war, a work-out relay, a photo scavenger hunt, and lots more I can’t remember. Synchronized swimming was the most fun to watch though. Imagine hundreds of college kids stuck on a ship making up dance routines in water. Hilarious. During closing ceremonies at the end of the night, we found out our sea tied in a 3-way for 3rd place! So mommy I’ll be the third sea off the ship in Florida, yay! We finished the day with an epic flip-flop battle throughout the ship and family Office night where all our friends cram into our cabin and we watch episodes of the Office on a computer for hours. Great day and night and now were off to India in 3 days…I can’t believe it.

Ok now its really homework time and I probably won’t get to South Africa blogging until tonight (which is morning for y’all anyways).

Love!