Many days all together

March 25

Almost to the end of the cruise and we have another formal night to get through. At the end of this formal I get to photograph our Black and White Ball. This is a party where the guests get to dance and have fun with our officers. It’s pretty cool that the officers take time out of their busy schedule to hang out with the guests and dance some. I would stay till they shut the place down around 12:30ish if I didn’t have to be up early the next morning. But the after party is downstairs on the crew deck, which is where I ended up anyway. Decided to have one drink with roomie since I got off so late. When we got in the bar there was literally no one, so we thought it’s be easy to have one drink and leave. Before long everyone started joining once they were done with the party up stairs. My planned bedtime of 12:00 turned into after 1:30am. But it’s all good.

March 26

Got up early freaking out about the time due to some weird dreams I was having. We even had time to get breakfast in between setting up the gallery and opening time. On my time off today I slept to get more energy. Other than that we worked in the gallery when we got Ensenada, Mexico. No parties tonight. Have early start tomorrow and a whole new set of guests to take pictures of.

March 27

Embarkment Day- Cruise #3

Up early to set everything up. Started about 10am and had a small break to get breakfast. Hung out in the port terminal to take embark photos. Around 1pm the computers decided to shut down and stop working. At this point we still had 400-500 people still needing to be checked in and board the ship. It wasn’t until 3:30-4:00 when the computers were fully working. Talk about some upset guests. They didn’t even want to get their photos taken with us. We were set to sail at 5, but today we ended up leaving about an hour later due to the computer issue.

While in the terminal there was a Carnival cruise ship loading also. They blew their horn to notify their departure. The funniest thing to see is all these people waiting for our ship start looking around like we were going to leave them on the dock. At one point the other photographer and I thought panic was to follow. It was a long day down there, but not much going on. I got a few apps on my phone updated and also downloaded a new app… Smurf’s Village. It’s pretty cool and I suggest you get it if possible. It is also connected to fb so others can help you out and vice versa.

Here are some funny things that happen around the ship with me….

While at sea and hitting those swells it is quite hard to climb the stairs. So we have to time it perfectly. As the ship goes up with the water we slow down, due to the pressure coming down on us. And when the ship moves down we race up the stairs because it feels like we are ‘flying’. LOL It is more of an exercise to go up and down these stairs than it is to use a stair master.

During formal nights when the ship is rocking, I can’t tell you how many times I have had to catch someone’s arm so they don’t lose their balance while I am posing them. That is why I have a small stool to get some to sit down. I even had a lady run into my background while walking by… and the is no wall behind the background so she jus kept going.

We were shooting restaurant photos while people were at dinner and I had to catch myself before I landed I someone’s lap at the dinner table. I definitely got some laughs on that one.

I’ll have more later because I am sure this isn’t the end of it.