Back with the tour guides under the trees, we grabbed bottles of water and snacks and shared them with our kids. We had them sit in a circle and Steve started to teach them some songs in English. Some of the children knew a fair amount of the language already, and helped teach the others. It was a lot of fun, especially when he started teaching them games like Duck, Duck, Goose and others I vaguely remembered from my childhood.
On the way to get back on the tender, I asked, “So these pirates, they were all a dream?”
“What do you think?” Steve replied, giving me a squeeze.
“That young one was,” I said, but as Steve smiled and playfully slapped at me, I had to agree. Except, what if it weren’t? What if there were pirates aboard ship trying to get the captain? Even if so, nobody would beli
