Sailing, we are sailing, home again, across the sea!

As I have mentioned loads of times, one part of my job is to to escorting which means that I get to go out with residents as an assistant.
Well. Today was my biggest escorting trip so far. To be more specific- I went sailing.

My morning started very early. Around 5:30. I planned to wake up at 5am but obviously just turned off my alarm subconsciously and slept on. I was waken up by one of my co-workers who had come to check whether I am ready. She told me that everybody were waiting for me. I was told to be ready at 6, so I was really surprised by that. Anyway, I'm glad she woke me up. I could've slept in.
Within 10 minutes I was basically ready and downstairs where people were still taking the last things to the van and then we took off.

We got to Weymouth, the place where the ship was supposed to start sailing, earlier, so we had a morning tea. After that we got on the boat. It was raining. It seemed to become a wet day. But.... As the ship took off from the port, the rain stopped. And it got warmer. We had bacon butty on board for breakfast, practised emergency escaping and then had time to chill around. We were out with 3 residents. It was a really really lovely day out! Everybody enjoyed the whole day. We had the chance to pull the ropes to put the sails up and also had the possibility to steer the boat. It was really fun, we made jokes, laughed and enjoyed the day. Although we struggled a bit with wheelchairs because there wasn't much space to move around in the ship and manouvering was complicated, we gave our best and from the residents' expressions we read that they were enjoying the trip out completely. The people in the ship were all very friendly and helped us with the wheelchairs because some of them were really heavy and as the ship was swinging, it was difficult to control the chairs.
We had a very tasty dinner in the boat and some snacks and when we finally returned to the port, we saw one dolphin also.
By the time we got off the boat, it started raining again. During our trip, we had sun and clouds and it was mostly warm. British weather- you can never know and predict what's going on!
We got back home at 7pm, all shattered and the assistants wet (because we didn't have the waterproof covers that the wheelies had).

I can say that I enjoyed this trip out really much! Probably, if I hadn't been on this kind of trip with residents, it would have gotten boring after a while, because I wouldn't have had anything to do on the ship. But pushing the wheelchairs around the ship kept me busy. It was a perfect day! Brilliant idea! I can only say that our activities coordinator, who organized the trip for us, well- he's a bloody genius!

Unfortunately I am not allowed to upload some good pictures to here, because I'm on them with residents and it's against the confidentiality law to put up pictures of the people I work with. But I'll still put some really nice pictures that I have.