I (SEA) SPY UPDATE

You might remember me talking about the envigorating "I work on a ship and life can be boring" game of I (SEA) SPY that we made up to pass the time.

It's the game where you get points for spotting sea life while on the ship. I am still winning, because of the pod of dolphins a couple months ago. suckas.

Our route changed this week- we sailed NORTH of NYC this time, toward Nova Scotia (first port- more about that later).

So Amanda (one of my castmates) said, "We probably won't see any dolphins because the water is too cold."

And later she said, "I think it's too early in the season to see whales..."

WELL GUESS WHAT SMARTY PANTS? We saw BOTH yesterday. oh hell yeah. The dolphins were teasing us by shaking their "stuff" close to the surface, and then jumping out of the water like it was sea world and they had to sell 1000 plush toys before they could eat. It was AWE.SOME.

I screamed a little. We got a LITTLE video of the dolphins jumping. like 2 seconds. They move fast.

But the best part were the whales, because you couldn't see them.They are elusive and flirty. We just saw a bunch of spit (my term) being sprayed into the air all over. There must have been 20-30 different exclamations of "WHALE SPIT!" coming out of my mouth while pointing and trying to get a picture. I was a train wreck of a tourist. And at the time the captain was doing laps around the deck with his ipod in his ears, and even HE was getting excited and looking at what we saw in the water. And he's all cool and Norwegian and crap.

"WHALE SPIT!" (pointing) "ooh! oooh! Look! Over there!" (trying to get a picture) "Oh crap, my camera turned off again!"

And then it happened...."WHALE BACK! THE WHALE'S BACK IS STICKING OUT OF THE WATER!" It was huge. And we saw it's back. And then it was gone. What a flirt.

I'm declaring myself the winner of I (SEA) SPY. I win, and now everyone calls me the spotter.

Neener neener NEENER.