{"id":345,"date":"2008-05-10T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/MamaOKnits\/2008\/05\/10\/day-3-whaddayamean-this-tub-could-sink\/"},"modified":"2008-05-10T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T16:41:00","slug":"day-3-whaddayamean-this-tub-could-sink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/day-3-whaddayamean-this-tub-could-sink\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 3: Whaddayamean this tub could sink?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Saturday, May 10<\/span><\/p>\n<p>First: \u00a0Eat.<br \/>Second: Pass muster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-photo\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_eKFMOhvaI5o\/SC25eRlCp0I\/AAAAAAAAAjY\/iOtdknQJtQs\/s1600-h\/0510080928-753624.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_eKFMOhvaI5o\/SC25eRlCp0I\/AAAAAAAAAjY\/iOtdknQJtQs\/s320\/0510080928-753624.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201017074448770882\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dawn passes muster<br \/>HeatherViaPhone<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Why?<\/div>\n<div>Because the ship was already lurching and while&mdash;so far&mdash;I wasn&#8217;t sea sick&#8230;to quote every George Lucas film, &#8220;I had a bad feeling about this&#8230;&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In our little check-in room we got our registration materials and our (surprise!) wonderful SeaSocks&#8217;08 bag. I had no idea we&#8217;d get that, and was overwhelmed. What a lot of work to put together.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sadly, the stitch markers I raced to finish&mdash;shredding fingers on the way&mdash;were nowhere to be seen. I figured they&#8217;d show up sooner or later.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dawn and I had an easy time sticking together (it helps that she&#8217;s the coolest person on the planet) so meals in our ever-expanding Pod were really quite lovely and easy-going. That was one of the best parts&mdash;the amorphous nature of the groupings. The people I was able to meet were all extraordinary and little rays of light in an otherwise uniform boatscape.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Except for the art. Someone must have taken photos of the art&mdash;it was&#8230;unique and it rotated. My fave part of the tub.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Post-lunch I was hit by a wave of exhaustion and I think Brenda and Dawn smiled at the side of my head as I dozed off. I left Amy&#8217;s (brilliant) class for the last forty minutes of swatch-time so I could catch a short nap before Brenda&#8217;s talk. It worked and I perked up.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>By this time we were in open ocean and the waves were&#8230;um&#8230;forcefully making themselves known to our ship. Captain Demitrius was fearless, but that didn&#8217;t stop people from passing out&mdash;literally and seriously. Our first formal night was met with the injunction for &#8220;ladies to not wear heels to dinner&#8221;&mdash;an injunction I ignored&#8230;and a dinner I couldn&#8217;t eat. Though it looked lovely.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The dinners, I have to tell you, are surreal on a ship. The waiters&mdash;all of them&mdash;have been given your name and picture, so you&#8217;re greeted by name.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Stalker-like.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>V odd.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Again, bummer I couldn&#8217;t eat. Not that I felt sick. Just that I knew it would be dangerous to do so.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Post-dinner knitting was&#8230;curious. We were told to go to <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Michael&#8217;s Club<\/span>. But no one was there. They weren&#8217;t expecting us. We echo-located our pod and had a little drink (Blini anyone?) and&#8230;Dawn and I passed out.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, May 10 First: \u00a0Eat.Second: Pass muster. Dawn passes musterHeatherViaPhone Why? Because the ship was already lurching and while&mdash;so far&mdash;I wasn&#8217;t sea sick&#8230;to quote every George Lucas film, &#8220;I had a bad feeling about this&#8230;&#8221; In our little check-in room we got our registration materials and our (surprise!) wonderful SeaSocks&#8217;08 bag. I had no idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}