February 28th, 2009

So this morning I woke up ready for my first event of the Sea Olympics. I am in the Red Sea so I put on my red shirt and headed up to deck 7 where Dylan and I were participating in the relay race. We were doing the “orange pass”section of the relay where we had 10 people from our sea that had to pass an orange between our necks not using our hands. I was fourth in line to go and when the relay started everyone seemed to have no trouble but me. I think it took me a good four tries before I finally made it without dropping the orange. 

 

I then spent the day walking around the ship watching everyone else participate in their events. The events include things such as mashed potato sculpture, work out relay, paper boat making, hoola hoop, limbo, flip cup (OUR TEAM GOT FIRST!!), sudoku, pictionary, volleyball, dodge ball, and even a spelling bee. The day was full of fun and everyone walking around chanting and supporting each other in their events.

 

The days last event was synchronize swimming which I was also participating in. We had a team of 10 people Win, Dylan and Kelly (across the hall) were some of the members on my team. I was really nervous and didn’t think we had a good routine but we went out and had fun with it and I was really glad I put myself out there to do it. Almost the entire ship was watching with camera and video cameras in hand. Once it was over I watched all the other teams routines, it was probably the funniest event of the day. 

 

That night we had closing ceremonies where they would announce the winners and a few medals they were holding off on. Our team got third in synchronize swimming and first in mashed potato sculpting (thanks to Heidi she did a great job making the Taj Mahal). We ended up getting second in the Seal Olympics over all!!! It was all in all a very exciting and fun filled day. I kept feeling like I was at camp and couldn’t believe this was school.