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Then they teamed up to flip me OVER. I got Manny out of the pool and then spent twenty minutes scrubbing every inch of my body in the outdoor shower. But five seconds after I finished drying off, I was WET again. The kids in the pirate ship figured out that if they plugged TWO cannons, they could get some SERIOUS range.

然后他们联手把我翻过来。 我把曼尼从游泳池里拉出来，然后花了二十分钟在室外淋浴间把我身上的每一寸都擦洗了一遍。 但在我擦干身体五秒钟后，我又湿了。 海盗船上的孩子们发现，如果他们插上两门大炮，他们就能获得更大的射程。

While I was drying off a SECOND time, we bumped into Mom. And after her morning at the spa, she seemed like a whole new person. She said that while she was getting her massage, she came up with a GREAT idea for how we could spend time as a family. She booked a private cruise for all of us, and she said the boat was gonna be at the dock in half an hour.

当我第二次擦干的时候，我们碰到了妈妈。 早上做完水疗之后，她就像换了一个人。 她说，当她在做按摩时，她想到了一个好主意，关于我们如何度过家庭时光。 她给我们订了一艘私人游轮，她说船半小时后就到码头了。

That wasn't a lot of time, so we had to split up to track down Dad and Rodrick. I told Mom that Dad was at the gym, so she went there to get him. I found Rodrick exactly where I expected to, and believe me, he owes me for not letting Mom get to him FIRST. We met Mom and Dad down at the dock. Dad wasn't too happy with Mom, because apparently this boat cost a lot of money to rent. But Mom said it was WORTH it, because this cruise was gonna be the highlight of our trip. When I hear the word "cruise," I think of a yacht or at least a souped-up sailboat.

时间不多，所以我们得分头去找爸爸和罗德里克。 我告诉妈妈爸爸去健身房了，所以她就去接他。 我在我预期的地方找到了罗德里克，相信我，他欠我的，没有让妈妈先找到他。 我们在码头遇到了爸爸妈妈。 爸爸对妈妈不太满意，因为租这艘船显然花了很多钱。 但是妈妈说这是值得的，因为这次游船将是我们这次旅行的亮点。 当我听到“巡航”这个词时，我想到的是一艘游艇，或者至少是一艘加大马力的帆船。

But the boat that Mom rented didn't look like anything special. The boat came with its own captain, so I guess that was SOMETHING. When we got on board, he handed us all life jackets, and after we put them on, we pulled away from the dock. The first thing I noticed was that the boat had a glass bottom, which I was not comfortable with at ALL.

但是妈妈租的那艘船看起来没什么特别的。 这艘船有自己的船长，所以我想这是什么。 当我们上船时，他给了我们所有人救生衣，我们穿上救生衣后，我们离开了码头。 我注意到的第一件事是船的底部是玻璃的，这让我很不舒服。

This boat didn't look like it was in such great shape to begin with, so I was worried the glass was gonna crack and we were all gonna sink to the bottom of the ocean. In fact, if I had to guess, I'll bet 50% of all shipwrecks are glass-bottom boats just like the one we were on.

这艘船一开始看起来就不是很好，所以我担心玻璃会破裂，我们都会沉到海底。 事实上，如果让我猜的话，我敢打赌50%的沉船都是玻璃底船，就像我们乘坐的那艘一样。

Once we got out on the ocean, the captain asked Mom where she wanted to go. The captain said there were some private islands we could explore, and Mom said we should go to one of THOSE. But it turned out the "private" islands weren't really private, so we didn't bother sticking around. The captain said there was a reef nearby that wasn't usually crowded and we could do some snorkeling. That meant we'd have to go into the actual ocean with all the OTHER stuff swimming around in there, so I wasn't in love with the idea. But nobody else seemed concerned.

我们一出海，船长就问妈妈想去哪里。 船长说有一些私人岛屿我们可以去探险，妈妈说我们应该去其中的一个。 但事实证明，这些“私人”岛屿并不是真正的私人岛屿，所以我们没有在附近逗留。 船长说附近有一个礁石，通常不太拥挤，我们可以浮潜。 这意味着我们必须进入真正的海洋，还有所有其他的东西在那里游泳，所以我不喜欢这个想法。 但其他人似乎并不担心。