Day Two: Tuesday

Today was Tuesday, our first full day on the ship. We make our first stop in Costa Maya, Mexico tomorrow. The teen club starts at 12 o'clock. Right when I get there, Gavin, Logan, Zayn (who we had just met) Sydney and Carly are already there. Since it's noon, we decide to go get some lunch. Gavin and I decide to go stop by the deli and we both decide on a Reuben. While we're waiting, a lady walks up to us.

"Excuse me, how old are you boys?"

The lady was actually quite tall and next to her was a boy of about our age.

"Fourteen," Gavin and I both answer.

"Ah, good. This is my son, Eli. He's your age, too. He will be hanging out with you in the teen club.

The lady leaves and now Eli is standing with us in line. After we all get our food, the six of us sit at a large table and introduce Eli.

We talk for a bit and realize we have a lot of free time.

"Tonight we should go swimming," suggests Gavin. Logan quickly agreed and flashed a mysterious smile. Eli, Zayn and I agreed and so did the girls. We finished our food and got ice cream cones and went back to the club room.

Once the seven of us come back, Ms. Lola told us we were going to do another scavenger hunt.

"On this paper is a list of foreign countries," she explained. "Your job is to write down the name of a ship worker from that country."

The seven of us broke up into two teams even though we would end up working together. Our hunt for names took us all around the ship, including the casino, which smelled of cigarette smoke. The hunt lasted an hour and it took us nearly the whole amount of time to find someone from Zimbabwe. After we completed the hunt, we got sidetracked and went to go play ping-pong. We ended up at the club room about thirty minutes late.

Back at the club, I met Hadan. He loved playing NBA 2K games, but only played on a team that had LeBron James. Our whole club also did some karaoke as well. However, I had to leave early because my family had been assigned an early dinnertime.

Sometime after an elegant dinner, I went back to the club for 'Fantasy Prom,' which was just us doing the same thing we had always been doing, except with dimmer lighting. While I getting a drink, Gavin came up to me.

"Hey. We're just about ready to go to the pool. You coming?"

"Yeah. Just one second," I replied, noticing that the six other people going were all by the door.

By the time i got to the pool, I realized i wasn't wearing a swimsuit. So i just took of my shirt, socks and shoes and jumped in. It was quite dark out and the pool was lit up. Since it was the first time I had gotten in the ship's pool, I realized it was extraordinarily salty. The six of us played tag in the pool. It was fun except when Eli was it, because he was a really fast swimmer and could sneak under you without you realizing it.

We played for a long time and had fun. Then we got in the hot tub, mainly occupied by 18-20 year olds. One of them pulled out a vape and started passing it around. All of us kind of realised what was going on and so we left the hot tub, rented towels and (once again) got ice cream cones.

It wasnt even the end of the night yet, as we still had to go to a show, The Motor City concert. It was in a giant ampitheatre on board. I sat with Zayn, Gavin and Sydney. Zayn seemed more interested in trying to hit on 20 year-old women instead of watching the show, which as you could guess didn't go to well. As a matter of fact, the lady (and her boyfriend!) went to the other side of the ampitheatre. The show was actually pretty impressive. It had great dancing and music.

After the show, my friends again went to go get ice cream. Day Two was coming to a close and it was quite fun, everything that we did today. We hung out til around 1 AM and finally went back to out rooms.