The name of the game is.... Cleaning

April 22

My official first day on this ship and after an exhausting flight plan, I think I am ready to get into it all.

Today is all about cleaning. Our gallery had a face life and we got an 'official' black label studio.. really cool. The lab is stuffed like a thanksgiving turkey with everything from the gallery and studio, plus more.. It looks like someone threw up boxes and random stuff everywhere. Lol

April 23

Most of everything is almost done, but not completely. I was sent out with a fellow photog to take some pictures for HAL to show the improvements and changes. It was a good thing to do so I could get an idea where everything is and what the differences were between this ship and the other.

We went into wet dock in the middle of the afternoon and unfortunately I didn't get to witness this happening. But I did hear it all in my room. It gets kinda loud there.

And we started sailaway later in the evening... around 6ish? Should be in Ft. Lauderdale in the early morning hours. I have to get up and do Immigration at 6:30am. Yikes...

April 24

6:00am..... I couldn't get to sleep last night. Kept watching tv and all that. Then my alarm went off. At 6:30am I was downstairs in line to do immigration. At 7am they said to come back at 7:45. My manager and I went for breakfast and then met back up downstairs at 7:30. It took forever... the people kept pushing back the time due to someone be late or something. I dunno. By the time all this is said and done we finally get into the room to do this around 9am. I so could have slept in more or done something with my morning.

Went around the ship to redo some of the photos for HAL. And then Embarkation. What a long, long, long day that was. Everyone worked the whole day. I decided to sleep in instead of meeting everyone in the bar downstair because once I was hanging out on my bed waiting for my roomie, it hit me how exhausted I was. And tomorrow is our first formal night.