We finally made it through the line to park in the deck and get onboard the ship. Dennis was excited to see the pool and kept asking me "are there toys on this ship?". After lunch, we went and found the toys. I took him up to see the room where they have Camp Carnival (for 2 to 5 year olds), and I happened in on the open house. He went right to the toys and found several of his same Fisher Price toys there, most notably the same fire station and truck that Santa brought this past Christmas. He was delighted and played happily while I finished his registration and picked up a phone. This is the nicest service! They gave us a free cell phone that works all over the ship so that they can call if we need to come and see to Dennis, and the fringe benefit is that we can call our room or any of our other cruise buddies' rooms to arrange meet-ups. This is awesome, especially given that Dave and Ellen got one as well when they signed Chloe up, so we've been calling each others' phones as well. This is saving us a bundle because the cell phone charges aboard are exorbitant and we've all turned them off.
Getting Dennis to leave Camp Carnival after I signed him up wasn't easy--it wasn't actually open until 7 tonight, and he cried buckets having to leave the toys. All the rest of the day I kept hearing "can I go to Camp Carnival now?". I ended up taking him after supper, just after we'd celebrated Gran's birthday with singing and cake. Chloe was there this evening as well, and we all went together to pick them up and take them walking around the ship before bed. As Ellen and I stood at the door waiting for our kids to finish in the potty, the teacher told us "both of your children are VERY active--we had to speak to them about it a few times". They were both a little short on naptime today, and we are hoping they behave better tomorrow.
Dennis loves his upper bunk, most especially because he gets to climb a ladder to get into it. He introduced himself to our room steward and then said "Captain, I really like my fireman bed!". I don't know why he calls the room steward captain; it must be the uniform. After we picked the kids up from camp, we all hung out on the top deck on the putt-putt course watching the kids run and jump on all the greens. We were all headed to the rooms by 10:00, exhausted from our long day! Dennis was delighted to find the pig towel animal waiting for us in the room.
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