April 26

Sea Day

Not much happens on the sea days. We catch up on our sleep; hang out in our rooms, or watch tv. Pretty dull. We did have a casual white night tonight. Our schedule for this was in one-hour blocks. My hour was from 8pm-9pm. As I came up to relieve the photog, she was finishing up with a couple. I happen to run into my fav longhorn guest. This guy I see everywhere. At embarkation, he was wearing that burnt orange and I had to converse with him. He is actually really cool and holds no grudges for the Aggies. Every time I see him around the ship, I call him Mr. Longhorn. Him and his wife both crack me up. He even got a photo of us two tonight doing our signs and all. I hope it turns out good for him.

My white night session was absolutely horrible. I had NO one want to get photos. I even had people laugh at me when I told them to come over for a few minutes. The fact that we had 2 pillows on the floor may seem a little weird, but that is to cushion these older folks from the floor. I even had a comment about making porn from one guest, which I know my eyes got big after hearing this. All I could say was ‘no.. and that is so wrong..’

April 27

Newport, RI

Got up at 5:45 this morning and got ready for gangway. There was so much fog outside when we came into the port. The Captain delayed the opening of the gangway due to the fact that the fog wasn’t moving or clearing. Today we are doing tenders so we were out a bit anchored. Because the fog was so thick, the Captain decided then to cancel the port due to weather conditions. Well as we were leaving, the fog decided to clear in less than 10 minutes. So we stayed, but didn’t have much time on shore side. Since we didn’t have a lot of time, the crew could not get shore leave unless you were working or on a tour. So after being up at 5:45, we finally got to the harbor at 9am. Everyone was in such a hurry to get to the buses that I got very few photos. I headed back after a couple of hours and took a quick nap since I didn’t get much sleep the night before. Back in the gallery at 1:30 to open and display. About 15 minutes go by and my manager looks around and realizes we are missing 2 people. The last tender should have been at 1:30 and yet we do not know where these two are. She makes a call and finds out that they are still shore side. We all look at the other and have this what if looks… If they don’t get back on the ship, then they have to find a way to get to our next port. Just craziness. Finally they show up… it seems the tenders were going very slow and there were still a lot of people waiting to get on the ship.

The night was quite boring. Not many people coming around and everything was already nice and neat and clean. Ended the night in the PO meeting new people and chatting it up with the guest entertainer.

Obviously you can't see exactly how bad the fog was last night, but this should give you an idea. This was around 6:30 pm.