Thurs Feb 12 , 2015

Today was another full day out to sea. It only took me 5 days, but I finally slept in this morning. Then I went to the gym while nick had a meeting. After the gym I went back to the room but I realized that I had forgotten my room key. Nick was still in his meeting somewhere on the ship, so I got some breakfast and went up to the dish one dodge ball tournament. They got together a girls game that I played in. It was best two out of three. We lost the first. Won the second (thanks to my two amazing catches at the end) then lost the third. Fun though. Third grade flash back. 

After that I went to guest services and got another key card. I took a shower then sat on our balcony and enjoyed the fresh sea air and lovely ocean front view. I saw some dolphins jump and a few whale tails and water spouts. 

My amazing view from the porch 😊

Around 3:30 nick finally got back. He was feeling frustrated because two of this best managers got an amazing offer from Vivent (the alarm company). $50,000 signing bonus. Craziness. It's hard bc I can totally see why they are tempted. Thats a ton of money. But it would be really really bad for nick. Super bad. Thats what makes this business really scary. Every thing could collapse on you at any moment and you could be left with nothing. Definitely a high risk, high stress industry. I don't like seeing Nick so stressed :(. Hopefully the boys will stay the year at least. Nick has put so much time and energy into keeping them. 

The rest of the afternoon we rested and I played some cards with the girls. It was fancy night at dinner so I wore my pink twirly dress again. After dinner I went to see a really cool musical and dancing show with a bunch of Beatles music. It was like a blast back to my childhood. I grew up listening to oldies and the Beatles was one of my favorites. Poor nick had another meeting so I went with Chris and Mel Cook. 

After the show we played Mafia. I was Mafia a few times, but they got me pretty quick both times. The first time I was out the first round the second time I made it to round 3 and then got killed. I guess I'm just so obvious. I'm not good at deceiving people, which I suppose in the long run of life is great...just not for Mafia. The second time I was Mafia, nick was it with me. He ended up winning,which is very tough to do. I guess all his salesman skills have paid off.