Davie goes missing

Saturday 13th July
We are in our hotel in downtown Anchorage after an eventful 24 hours. Yesterday evening after a pleasant drink and chat, James and I headed for bed while David went to get himself an ice cream. This was at about 11 p.m. and I read my book and relaxed for a while until I started wondering where he could have got to. I decided to go and have a look for him at about half past midnight but I became very concerned when I realised that the ship's bars and social areas were all very empty. Where could he be? I searched all over the place to no avail and went back to our cabin to wake up James, before going to the customer service desk on Deck 6 to report Davie missing. What really worried me was that Davie had been very clear that he wanted to spend his cruise relaxing apart from the shore excursions we went on, and he didn't want to go to the "teen club". This was fair enough, but it meant that when I couldn't find him I couldn't imagine who he might be with because he didn't 't know any other young people on the ship. And my mind was racing - what if someone had hurt him, what if he had leaned over the railing of the ship to see something and had leaned too far...
When I spoke to the people at the Customer Service Desk they were very reassuring but immediately swung into action. I had to describe him and what he was wearing and when I had last seen him etc. and they printed out a Missing Person Report with his photo on it. It was very efficient. But when I saw the photo of his dear, lovely face on the report I just burst into tears. Meanwhile James was phoned by the staff and asked to remain in the cabin in case Davie turned up there.
The ship's Night Duty Captain came to meet me and Security started searching the ship. After only about ten minutes a Security Man came walking round the corner with Davie! I was so relieved and he let me give him a big cuddle because I think he could see what state I was in. The Night Duty Captain asked Davie what had happened (for the report) and he explained that when he went to get ice cream he had started chatting to another young person (one of the teenagers that he hadn't been interested in meeting all week!) and that they had met up with a group and they had all been sitting around chatting on Deck 5 for the last couple of hours. Thank goodness he was safe! I wouldn't even have been worried if I thought he was with other young people. When we had finished thanking all the staff we went back to the cabin where James was fully dressed and less than impressed!