Funny cruise "kid-isms"

[CeleBrat]

Kids are notorious for mis-pronouncing words. So...share your cute stories here! I'll start:

 

On the NCL Star a few years ago, we went to watch the evening show which featured some circus-type performers from Cirque. Midway through the performance, my daughter (almost 3 at the time) leans over and says, "Mom, this is a great circus-dance."

 

To this day, we still call any night-time cruise-ship show "circus dance."

 

CeleBrat

[Flipflopsnfrozendrinks]

My 10 year old son (who has cruised before) made this discovery as we were boarding Constellation.. "Wow, the ship is already in the water"!!

We all stopped in our tracks and looked at him. Once he realised what he said, he just started laughing along with the rest of us. He still brings that one up.

Kim

[notentirelynormal]

Went to take my 3 YO GS to lunch the other day and asked him where he wanted to go. He says, "want to go to the buffet". Ok, I thought, pizza lunch buffet. My DD looks at me and says, "he's referring to the buffet on Deck 16".

 

He wants to go back on the ship. We said, we don't know where it is. He said (cos we're stupid) "its on the water". We said, you need a ticket. He said "get a ticket". We said, but you need money, he said - "Well get money!". I fear we've created a monster. He LOVES cruising and trains. How cool was it to arrive at a port (think it was Dunedin) and stand on the balcony looking at train cars being loaded!

[karenem]

My kids are getting excited to go on their first cruise: to sleep in the floating hotel and see ice berbs.

[CeleBrat]

Here's another--again, from my DD.

 

Walking back to our cabin after a long day at the pool, she says, "I can't wait to get back to the cabinet and relax on the bed."

 

So, hereafter, we shall ALWAYS call it at cabinet.

 

Mispronunciation....or some semblance of truth since cabins are so tiny and could be confused for a cabinet akin to the ones you have in your kitchen?

 

Hehe!

 

CeleBrat

[woostercruise]

We sailed on Royal Caribbean in March, my 4 year old kept referring to the bracelet with his muster station as his mustard bracelet:p . He actually wore the bracelet for 4 days after we got back!

[MellowMel]

We too attend "mustard" drill with our kids. Our daughter called our cabin steward the "maid." We also needed something that I now can't remember and our daughter said we should just call customer service (instead of the Purser's Desk).

[Robin & Dan]

My 4 yo DS was really trying hard to figure it all out.

 

When we woke up on the first day (at sea) and opened the window curtain he proclaimed "Hey..look, we're moving again" Uh, no son...we never stopped.

 

Then the night before the last day, a sea day, we told him tomorrow the ship was going to head back home to Galveston. We kept telling the kids this all night in hopes of preparing them that vacation was almost over. When DS woke on that last sea day and opened up the cutrain, he was confused because the ship was moving in the same direction. I then realized he thought the ship would go in 'reverse' to go back to Galveston.

[Warm Breezes]

When DD was 4 we took our first cruise on the Disney Wonder. I will never forget the look on her face when we went to the Disney Dreams show and Tinker Bell flew over the ship sprinkling Pixie Dust. She looked up at me in awe and asked "Does this mean we can fly?" To be a child again.

[PattyW]

My son was on his most recent cruise in January. In about April I had to bring him with me to work (a traditional office) one day. When we were finished eating lunch, he said: "let's go back to the cabin". Long Office Hallways - doors on both sides - I guess it reminded him of a cruise ship!

[PattyW]

I also thought it was interesting that my youngest child (who just turned three) uses all the proper "ship" terminology. I'm guessing because he is still in the learning phase of the English language.

 

The cabin is always cabin, never "room";

The decks are always decks, never "floors", etc.

 

He would get mad if I would slip and say the kids club was one floor up!

[Drew B]

Walking back to our cabin after a long day at the pool, she says, "I can't wait to get back to the cabinet and relax on the bed."

 

So, hereafter, we shall ALWAYS call it at cabinet.

 

Mispronunciation....or some semblance of truth since cabins are so tiny and could be confused for a cabinet akin to the ones you have in your kitchen?

 

My niece called it a "cabinet" as well. Loved it!

[IluvZ]

My DS (3) decided that the ship best thing because you could call on the phone and they always brought what he wanted. We were staying at a hotel a few months after the cruise and the room didn't have ketchup. DS runs to the phone and says "Don't worry, I'll call for it." I quickly explained that room service (and a Butler) wasn't a standard option in real life.

[nklpikl]

We just got off my childrens first cruise on Sunday. My middle DD who is 9 got quite accustomed to ordering her appitizer (maybe 2), entree and any thing else she chose.

That afternoon we are haing lunch at our hotel. She points to the menu serious as can be, says "I will have one of these: point towards an appetizer and then another "and ummm.... one of these" point towards an entree.

 

Gee hun, sorry it doesn't work like that on land.

[gvi]

Great Thread!

 

My DS took his first cruise at age 4. His favorite thing on the whole ship was HIS Monk Bed! (The pull down berth/bunk bed) No one else was allowed to sleep there after he saw it for the first time. His brother (DS 10) was supposed to sleep in it. . . He (4 yr old) even asked to go back to the cabin for naps several days just so he could be in HIS monk bed.

 

Our next cruise the boys will have to share the sofa bed. . .He is SO disappointed. :p

[sysguy]

These are so cute!

On our first cruise with the kidlets, DS, who was 7, was talking about pirates and their voyages. We were comparing the situations and he said "Well with all this food we know we won't get Scurby!!" We still call scurvy scurby here!

 

Cindra

[ncmomof2]

Not limited to cruises, but it started on one...

 

DD was 21 mos on her first cruise and hadn't been in an elevator for a while... so we spent our cruise riding in the "alligators" from one deck to another! :pVery appropriate since we were sailing out of Port Canaveral!

[rskalko]

It's funny... my 10 YO sister is so accostomed to crusing now!

 

When we told her we were going on a cruise next February, her first question was "on what line?"... we told her NCL and then she said "What's the intinnerary". LOL!!!

[nybumpkin]

My youngest son asked on our last cruise, "Mom, why don't you and dad ever go play in the grown-up arcade?" (I guess slot machines look like that.;))

[alscottg1]

We are leaving in 5 weeks for our cruise with the kids. It will be my DD 5th cruise (although she was way to young to remember them) and my DS first cruise. We have been talking non-stop about the trip. The other day my son was getting into his booster seat in the car and buckling up and asked me if he has to stay buckled the whole time on the ship. I just laughed!!

 

Alissa

[Sand_Sun_Sea73]

These are funny! Not on a cruise, but had to throw this one in there...My son calls the appendix the indendepence. "My friend had his independence taken out last week" Huh? :D Oh his appendix, took me a few minutes but I figured out what he was talking about!

[Suzanne74]

We went on the Liberty of the Seas a few weeks ago. It was similar to the Navigator which we were on last year. We played dumb to our whereabouts so our 6yr old could be our tour guide when we first embarked. We went up to the kids club and then the arcade first. Later we went down and walked thru the casino and she loudly exclaimed "Here we are in the adult arcade. Daddy, don't you love this place?" There were many giggles around us. :)

[salsagrl]

When DD was 4 we took our first cruise on the Disney Wonder. I will never forget the look on her face when we went to the Disney Dreams show and Tinker Bell flew over the ship sprinkling Pixie Dust. She looked up at me in awe and asked "Does this mean we can fly?" To be a child again.

 

I have a 3.5yr old and I can totally hear this conversation. It makes my heart smile :)

 

Can't wait to hear the stuff my DS comes up with on our trip in September!

[dolphinwyo]

On our last Carnival cruise my 3 yo DS was introduced to "Funship Freddy" the Carnival mascot. He kept referring to him as "Friendship Freddy" and when I corrected him, he would say "no, mom he is my FRIEND, so he is Friendship Freddy." He can't wait to go on another cruise and see Friendship Freddy again.

[beejayeak]

Ok - this story cracks me up - It doesn't quite fit but these posts reminded me of this incident...

 

Last Aug. my husband and I were on a cruise with our friend and her two kids. The oldest, Andrew, was a new reader and was excited to order his own meal.

 

So one night, He says to the waiter, “I’ll have…fruit cocktail….cheese pizza….French fries….and a cheese burger…”

 

The waiter is just nodding and writing - no big deal, right? The kid can have anything he wants!

 

So I say, “Wait a minute - Andrew - you never eat all your food - that is way too much - just pick one, the pizza or the burger, and if you are still hungry, you can order more…”

 

So Andrew says, “ Ok, well, I’ll have the pizza… and a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich…” At this point, we all laughed… eventually he just got the French fries, fruit and pizza.