A playground at sea!

Today is sea day and all the youth team are ready for a busy fun filled day ahead...

Sea day is the 2nd day of the cruise after leaving the home port the night before, so there’s always lots of fresh-faced kiddiewinks, along with those just getting stuck into week 2 of their holiday. We opened base camp at 9am and waited for all the new children to arrive, and before we knew it we had a full house ready for the fun to begin.

The morning began with crafts with children making Captain’s hats and stripes, joining in colouring competitions and much more to keep us busy up to lunch. Then once they’d had time to refill their little tummies and recharge the batteries, we all marched down to deck 7 singing all the way to meet an extra special guest we had on board - Basil Brush! Sadly he was only with
us for the day as a trial to see is the children took to him or not, but he went down a storm so hopefully he'll be back with us really soon.

After the show the little ones were full of energy so we walked around the outside decks of deck 7 (still singing the songs!) in time for our ‘Captains Coketail’ party in Connexions bar. And as if Basil Brush wasn’t enough, the special guest was Paddington Bear for photos and cuddles, some old favourite party games and even a bit of a boogie!

Paddington dishing out one of his famous cuddles!

But the fun didn’t stop there and it was time for cheesy grins in the Photo Studio before making our way back up to deck 14 where the kids played freely with the games, toys, PS2’s and in the ball pool until it was time to be collected, by which point they were all well and truly worn out!