I mentioned in an earlier cruise post how much attention the cruise staff paid to Ernie. Sometimes it was nice and made him smile, other times it was annoying and distracted him from his mission. But as the days went by and we gained more familiarity with certain crew members they started opening up more and revealing bits of their personal lives. They would tell us their own children's ages and one even mentioned that that day was their kid's birthday. We realized many of the worker ladies were mothers who probably don't see their children for months at a time. Especially now that today was Christmas I suddenly felt a lot more empathy for them and tolerated them wanting to occasionally give Ernie's chubby little cheeks a pinch.
These spinner toy things are quite the hit with the big man.
It was difficult to navigate the SS Ernie Wern through the main lobby of the ship today because there were so many families getting their photos taken everywhere.
We had an unlimited drinks package so I took it upon myself to try every drink available.
Today's excursion was to Sir Bani Yas island. I was interested because I'd read about the island being some royal retreat. We found it to be pretty lame though unfortunately. It felt like a cruise company's idea of a safari.
Big Ern did have some fun. This was a very rare instance that he rode in a vehicle without being strapped into a car seat. He's a big fan of wind in his face/hair so he was loving that part as well as we started to pick up a little speed on our cruise arranged tour.
Many of the trees and plants had their own little sprinkler life support system and made me feel like this wasn't really the nature preserve we'd been led to believe and that none of this was supposed to be here.
One person in our group was caught by surprise by the lameness and kept asking why the animals were behind fences and that it was ruining her pictures.
We managed to get Christmas Day reservations at a restaurant on board the Dawn at a Brazilian steakhouse. It wasn't bad. They did the thing where they force feed you from giant meat hunks on a sword until you burst and die. There was an incident where I gave Ernie a mushroom and he chewed on it with his molarless gums forever but never made any progress. We had to pull it back out of his mouth with much difficulty.
Eating slices of roasted pineapple was a highlight of the meal.
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