Jan 26th, 2020 Day 23 of 128

Sea Day.  It was another relaxing day at sea today.  Megan and I had breakfast together this morning as mom and Valerie slept in late.  We had a chance to relax before we headed up to our crocheting group at 10:30am. Megan is almost done with her first blanket and I am wrapping up my second.  I promise to post some pictures when we are all done.  I will try to add one today of my first completed blanket I turned in.  We worked on some school this afternoon and had a chance to wrap up this week’s work. Then at 2:00pm we went to our daily lecture, “Introducing the Falkland Islands.”  Such an isolated, but fully functioning part of the world these islands are.  We are so looking forward to our excursion there when we will be visiting a penguin rookery.  After the lecture we headed back to the cabin so the girls and I could go over their completed schoolwork for the week and I got their lesson plans completed for the next four weeks.  With there being many sea days coming up as we are getting ready to sail around Antarctica, I wanted the girls to have what they needed to get ahead while they had the opportunity.  So their lesson plans are completed now through the end of February.  That took our day right up to getting ready for dinner, as tonight was a Black and White themed Gala.  It was another great opportunity to get dressed up just as the ship started to rock and roll.  I swear sometimes they are planning it so we all struggle walking in our heels.  Just Kidding.  We had a head of security for the entire ship as our guest at dinner this evening.  It was great to learn about him, his family and how he came to be in charge of our floating city.  I think it is especially great for the girls to learn about what makes the day to day operations flow on this ship to afford them the comforts and privileges they are experiencing.  By the end of dinner the ship was really rolling and we saw many crewmembers escorting elderly passengers back to their cabins to ensure they were safe.  Valerie was having a rough time of it so she had me put another seasickness patch on her to calm her tummy.  Unfortunately, that makes her sleepy so she decided to sleep with mommy last night.  She said, “Sometimes a girls just needs her mom.”  Megan took the couch in my room and Nana got a night all to herself.  It’s going to be a rough one so we are all tucking in and holding on for a wild night.  Love and Hugs!!  Debra