Crikey, Toralei must have been seriously upset about slipping on the deck this morning! She spent the whole afternoon torturing me! I don’t know how she has that scary-cute lifeguard wrapped around her claw, but she’s somehow managed to swipe control of the pool deck and made it her mission this afternoon to try to ruin my fun.

Right after this morning’s slip-sliding fiasco, a school of little tadpoles scampered over to use the surf pool for a rubber ducky race. This crew of kiddos came swooping over to the surf pool and tossed their fleet of rubber ducks into the waves, insisting that they had been sent over—by someone—to have a duck race in the surf pool. My sibs and I had to clear the pool while they turned the waves off and cleaned out the pool’s filters. There were ducks stuck everywhere! I just know Toralei had something to do with it, since she was glaring at me from her perch up in the lifeguard stand.

Then, right after lunch, the lap pool got shut down less than five minutes into my workout… after all the live lobsters in one of the ship’s restaurant’s tanks were dumped into the saltwater lap pool. I don’t know how she managed that one, but I was stuck belly up on the deck while they resolved that issue.

And then, this afternoon, our ship’s scheduled stop at a secluded beach—an excursion I was so looking forward to because I’d give anything to feel sand between my toes—was canceled. I don’t know how she managed it, but I’m positive Toralei had something to do with it. She must have overheard me talking with Kelpie about our beach outing and decided that ruining the excursion would be fintastic payback for her embarrassment.

Clearly, she’s trying to make this vacation a monstrous fail for me. I’m still trying hard to go with the flow and let the days play out however they’re meant to, but it’s tough when someone is working so hard to ruin things. I just have to remember the Golden Rule and hope Toralei gets the message soon: Treat others the way you want to be treated.

Eventually she’ll warm up. Yeah? Yeah!

Later, mates,

Lagoona