Rule #1- WIN

Tonight we had a scavenger hunt. Three teams. 7 or 8 people per team. It was intense.

Each team received a paper with a list of things to take pictures of or with or activities to do. They were different difficulties and therefore worth different amounts of points. Everything from “dress your whole team in SAS gear” to “put your life jackets on and assemble your group at your muster stations” to “get a photobomb picture with Brittany the photographer” to “get Keith (head of security) to put on makeup” to “high five Dean Dan” to “get a picture in a restricted area holding an AGN sign”. We had one hour to rack up as many pictures and points as we could.

For the next 60 minutes, 40-some people sprinted around the ship, shouting, dressed in drag with painted on mustaches, trying to complete all of the tasks. We trash talked each other when we would run into another group, jumping in front of their photos and trying to throw them off.

Our group learned the hard way about some rules on the ship. Because we couldn’t find a security guard to take a picture with, we decided to put on our life vests and find our muster station. On our way outside, however, we ran into the “new Savio”, a meaner version of the head of security that was with us the first half of the voyage. Like a robot, all he could say was “Go put those away. You’re not supposed to have those out. Go put those away.” He wouldn’t stop, he wouldn’t listen to our explanation, he wouldn’t even let us go put our life vests away because he was too busy telling us to put them away. In the process of the whole fiasco, Kelly (our RA) and I just stood next to our uncooperative obstacle, held up the thumbs up, and had a teammate snap the photo… while he was still yelling at us. Perfect.

We all reconvened after an hour, presenting our pictures by our group names Snap, Crackle, and Pop. The judges tallied our points while we stuffed our tummies full of ice cream and chocolate sauce.

And the winner was… TEAM POP! (that’s us!) By a slight 5 points, but victorious nonetheless.

Aegean Sea’s first rule since the beginning of sea olympics: WIN

Mission Accomplished.