The Hughes Zoo

There’s 5 days travel time between Bora Bora and Honolulu. It was a good time to rest and regroup after a few busy days. Jeremy has started to get bored of creche - because he’s the youngest some of the activities are too old for him (he said musical chairs was “mean”)  plus he has the teachers wrapped around his little finger. Which means he spends most of his time there watching the Wiggles or playing the Playstation2. Which means he’s more than a little crazy by the time we pick him up, even if it’s only been a couple of hours.

So, there’s no more creche, which has been great. We’re in a nice routine now where one of us entertains Jeremy for the morning while the other one gets Will to bed, then we swap in the afternoon, and play together as a family when Will’s awake. But we’re being much more relaxed with the routine now that the boys are comfortable, the only real consistency is Will’s sleep times and the dinner/bath/bed timeslot. Of a night Ange and I are alternating going to the gym, then grabbing dinner and sometimes drinks afterwards.

On the Bora Bora tourist bus ride I let Jeremy use my (brand new, eeek) SLR. He loved it and was surprisingly good, especially seeing as he doesn’t really look through the viewfinder. He’s asked to use it a couple more times and really seems to enjoy it. You can see some his photos here.

Although 90% of the people on-board are lovely, the other 10% are starting to drive us a little nuts. Someone actually tried to tell Ange that Jeremy is small for his age the other day - he had his health check before we left and he’s in the 80th+ percentile for everything and (literally) off the charts for weight. Uh huh, that’s right lady, he’s tiny. Ange seems to cop of a lot more of it than I do, probably as a result of my friendly disposition. I keep telling her to scowl at people more, but she doesn’t seem interested.

On the flipside, we have so many people randomly stop us when the boys are with us or not to tell us something nice about them - how well behaved they are, how polite, how quiet, how well they eat etc. It more than makes up for the minority of old grouches.

The only other really young kids on board are a brother and sister and their cousin on holiday with their parents and grandparents.  We didn’t get much of a chance to hang out together until this week. Funnily enough, they’re public servants from Canberra (is that redundant?). Unfortunately, they’re getting off at Honolulu and flying back to Sydney. They boys had a great time playing with kids closer to their age, particularly Jeremy who loved hanging out with Kyan.

A fair few of the crew are also getting off at Honolulu, including Viktoria who has been absolutely lovely to us since our first night. All of the crew are fantastic and they work incredibly hard. It’s only been a few weeks but we’re already quite attached to them.

There was some rough weather out at sea, causing the ship to create quite a bit of whitewater. Jeremy, looking out of our window, wanted to know who’d put soap in the ocean to make it bubbly. Rough oceans also makes the pools interesting to swim in because of course the water moves around quite a lot. It’s almost like being in a mini-ocean. When it gets too rough they close off the pools, but before that happened Jeremy and I had a great time.

Tags: at sea, cruise

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