Voy a estar en España, mañana!

Yep. I’m gonna be in Spain tomorrow. Finally…LAND! That I get to TOUCH! And not just take pictures of from the decks of the ship! I’m so excited to go back to Spain! Shout out to all my Alicante buddies!

As for ship life today, it went pretty swell. I had my bio exam and it took me all of…twelve minutes? Apparently, my late night study session with the Saudi Arabians paid off. Score!

I had lunch at the captain’s table today, too! Basically, he gets this special table in the back of the dining room with fancy napkins and glasses and servers. A couple of my lunch buddies and I got asked to sit there with him, which we’ve been hoping for the past few days! There were ten of us total, but once we got past the typical “what’s your name?, where are you from?, what are you studying?” bit, though, we started having awkward silences.  I’m generally not a shy person…but he’s a scary British man who likes to joke about execution. What do you say to those kinds of people?

I also did some laundry in my sink today. That was loads of fun (ba-dum-ch!). Okay, sorry. No more lame puns. Seriously, though, I don’t know how people lived before washing machines. I didn’t even wash that much, and I still sucked at it. Perhaps I missed out on the how-to-do-laundry gene. 

Brianna and I also took a bridge tour today!  The bridge is the area in the very front of the ship where the captain and officers steer and make sure things are going smoothly. We got to sit in the captain’s chair and wear a captain hat and everything. It was pretty sweet. So was Luis, the officer that gave the bridge tour. Luis is gorgeous. Luis is single (thank you, slightly rude girl who insisted upon asking the personal question that we were all wondering). Luis made me rethink the whole law school thing and consider the possibility of entering the cruise ship industry. Unfortunately, fraternizing with the crew is looked down upon for some reason…but if I WAS the crew…ah, the possibilities.

I’ll do my best to keep up with posting! Cheap pitchers of sangria, here I come!