Back to Sea

March 7th

A night of drinking, listening to Piano Bar guy (David) and more drinking. I have talked to a few of the crew and the thing they have all said was that there is not much to do here while at sea, so we drink. Yikes! I think I am going to be working on my tolerance. But I will be responsible... I can hear my sister's voice in my head (all 3 of them) already.

March 8th

Did not get much sleep, but we survived it. After work we went down to the OB bar for the crew and had a drink or two. Then to bed. It was a slow day in the Gallery. We had a formal night and then some dinning room shots to take. Still doing good here. So far. I have been able to work with Amilcar, our Black Label artist. He has given me some pointers on how to get to be a BL artist. Good information there.

Our sea days are filled with mostly gallery work. Rearranging photos, making room for the new ones. We also have a photo contest going on right now.. the ones we have look pretty good. Unfortunately I do not have any pics today. And yes I do have my little point and shoot, but at the time when I went walking I didn't grab anything camera related, but I will be sure to bring it next time. By the way, my iphone camera isn't that bad. :-)

March 9th

Had to be in the gallery at 8am... I did not want to get up this morning. I think I hit the snooze button about 10 times. Got busy in the gallery with only 3 days left in the cruise. Everyone is going through all of the pictures they have thus far, which is good because we are running out of room in there. Had a 3 hour break and then back in the gallery till 6. I am starting to get use to the schedule by now.. we take a lot of naps around here. It is almost inevitable not to take a nap at some point of the day.

The funny thing about cruises is that you never know what the day is. In the guest elevator they change out the rugs for the different days of the week. But they don't have anything for the crew. I actually had a guest come up to me and ask what day it was so I had to pull out my phone to check. They asked if the crew get rugs in our elevator.. which was quite funny.

I will say that working on a ship that has a little over 1400 guests, we get to know the guests more since we see them everywhere and many times a day. We have a good group this cruise that like to joke around. Did I say before some of them remind my of my dad and step mom... over-grown teenagers. It certainly has been interesting this first cruise.