Day 97 and 98

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 

Ok, I am actually typing and posting this a day late but on day 97 it was thanksgiving so woo!

They did serve us Thanksgiving dinner. Actually half a Thanksgiving dinner. There was turkey and stuffing and cranberry sauce and gravy but no mashed potatoes. It was so yummy and lunch was horrible so I ate so much. And pumpkin pie for dessert! 

I spent the majority of the day blogging. I did get a manicure. I felt it was necessary, you should have seen the state of my nails after the Amazon. Not a pretty sight. 

The store had a huge sale all day. It was madness. 

In the middle of the day I presented my idea to Ashley of getting everyone to draw on a map where they were going to end up after Ft. Lauderdale. Then we would be able to see the dispersion of people after the voyage. He loved it, so I grabbed my map and my sharpies and set up camp in the other alcove on deck 6. Chris, Molly and I blasted Disney music and caught people walking by. I found it to be a good use of an afternoon. 

At Thanksgiving dinner we all went around and said what we were thankful for, both in real life and a SAS edition. Molly is thankful for a lot of different foods. And her bunny, Toulouse.  We were all thankful for similar things: our health, our family, our friends, and the opportunities ahead of us. 

Emily wrote us all little notes and left them on our door of three things she is thankful for each of us. It was so sweet. 

In the evening Molly and I really needed to write a paper but instead had a makeup party. Procrastination. *Thumbs up*

Black Friday shopping can happen on a ship in the middle of the ocean. This morning they put out brand new shirts in the campus store. The campus store opens at 8 and I have class at 8. We actually managed to convince our professor to let us go to the campus store. I think we were just getting on her nerves so she let us go to shut us up. None of us thought it was going to work but it just goes to show you that nagging can be affective. 

Best morning ever. 

I was in a really weird funk all day. Just a terrible mood and I also just felt a little lost and floaty. Molly was concerned and also yelled at me for being ridiculous. When she went to work at 2 I was laying in her bed all alone when the phone rang. It was Jessi and she had called there looking for me. I think I might spend too much time in Molly's room. 

She asked if I wanted to go tanning and I told her that I was in a weird mood. She said that she would change and come down to find me. I answered the door completely wrapped in a blanket. 

She convinced me to get up and I felt motivated at the idea of going to hang my hammock up on deck 8. Which I did, and it was awesome. I laid in my hammock and blogged for a few hours in the afternoon and it put me in a little bit of a better mood. I am still in a funk though. Hopefully I can find the source soon. 

For dinner Molly and I participated in the Hunger Banquet. We ate in the fifth floor dining hall where they assigned each of us a class and we were fed meals similar to what a member of that class would eat. We were in the lower class and got one scoop of rice and one scoop of beans. I felt like I was back in the Amazon. It was an interesting experiment. Although the lower class was not given chairs and we were not allowed to sit on the ground. That didn’t make much sense. I am pretty sure the floor is readily available to everyone. 

Jessi and Molly convinced me to work out with them at 10. It was the first time I had been on the treadmill since before Germany. It was painful and really difficult with the rocking ship. I actually would move from side to side and had to over compensate. 

It is now 1:43 in the morning and we are sitting up in the library attempting to get work done. It is not going well. Molly wants to write her paper on a article about how cows can not sense earthquakes. 

She also made me tell you that. 

She thinks it is overly funny and is laughing right now. 

You know what else happened today that was funny? We were walking down the stairs and I thought one of them said something so I said 'What!?' very aggressively and, in fact, no one had said anything. We were on the floor of that stairwell for a while. 

This is our lives. 

I think it might be time for bed.