It ain't over till it's over

...and then it was over.

The Sea Olympics gave me an opportunity to find some sports quotes, and I chose Yogi Berra.  The title above is one of his most famous.

My work study student Heidi thought it was a typo and drew this little sketch.  We're making a book of quotes from the Deans' Memo for the Shipboard Auction in April.  She's illustrating it.  Yogi Bear won't make the cut, but he's cuter than the average bear, so here he is.

I could have also used the inimitiable Chickpea's "I won first.  And you won second."  There were some pretty amazing performances yesterday. 

The faculty came in fourth, a middling showing.  There was a little muttering over breakfast this morning along the lines of, "If they worked as hard on their schoolwork as they did on their karaoke..."  Their routines for that competition were impressive in both their creativity and technique. 

The last two competitions were the synchronized swimming and the karaoke/lip synch.  Because the seas were rough and all the water was sloshing out of the pool, the synchronized swim was moved to dry land, which presents some interesting challenges and hilarious results.

I was a judge for that competition, so no pictures.  Some of the kids did more dancing than (fake) swimming, but most were down there on the floor, kicking, diving, and doing water ballet. 

Luna Sea had planned on a Lion King number featuring a toddler and an older child as the two brothers, but scrapped it at the last minute when our team captain heard another sea practicing to the same music.  (Our team captain, the assistant dean of students, is VERY competitive.) 

Instead, we got four guys, with children's bathing suits on their heads, rocking a bizarre combination of sexy and baby to "Living the Vida Loca."  Turns out the crowd goes wild when the assistant dean of students rips off his shirt and demonstrates his zumba booty dancing skills. This picture was lifted from Rachel's blog, Sea What I See.


Sea Olympics is designed to break up the monotony of the long passage from India to South Africa, give the students something to think about besides drinking, and build team spirit.  The prize was the choice of getting off first or last in Barcelona (they choose).  The winners were the Caribbean Sea, who were convincingly pirates and had some amazing choreography for their cheer, karaoke, and synchronized swim.  One of my shipboard children said, "I don't want to win.  I want to get off somewhere in the middle!"  Lucky for her, they also get an ice cream social in the faculty lounge.

I learned some things, too:

1. Sports, even fake sports, are not very interesting unless you are watching them.
2. I am culturally illiterate.  At least half the music chosen meant nothing to me.
The noise of 600 cheering students is exhausting.

I am old.  Time for a nap.