“I got lost trying to find my way back from the elevator to my cabin,” she told her friends. “Those hallways are a mile long!” “Did you see all the restaurants? And the pool? And the waterslide?” Delaney gushed. “It’s like a floating city at sea.” “There’s a basketball court, a shuffleboard deck, even a video arcade,” Sadie said, studying the map the cruise director had given her. “I don’t know what to do first!” “I do,” Kylie said. “I’m scouting out the galley—that’s ‘kitchen’ in ship-speak. Leo said the pirate party will be a huge event with fireworks and laser lights projected on a huge screen above the pool. And we have just a few days to prepare for it.” “Do we have any details—anything I can start thinking about for cupcake decorations?” Lexi asked. Kylie nodded. “It’s a salute to all the great pirates on the Seven Seas, from Bluebeard and Captain Kidd to Hook and Jack Sparrow.
