Today I’m in Aruba and I have had no sleep and a throat infection!! Not happy!! Besides that though I’m great! This afternoon I’m going Power Snorkeling… I’m not really sure what that is but it’s meant to be fun and Erin and I get to go for free which is great. My friend Nipples (don’t ask me how he got that nickname, from my last contract… I can’t remember) is the Shorex manager on board and happily sends me off on tours as a ship ‘escort’… which basically means I get to go for free and have a good time.
I can’t believe in 20 days time it will be Christmas. Christmas for us will be spent in Aruba. We are all planning on trying to get into one of the hotel/resorts here for Christmas lunch. Some of the girls are going to try and book it today so fingers crossed we can get in somewhere.
In two days time we’ll be back in San Juan which will mean it’s been 10 days since we were in Acapulco and the end of my 4th cruise onboard. The punters (as I like to call them) have been nice this cruise… Dave and I even got fan mail. We’ve had many compliments which has been nice. Hopefully they’ll still think I’m good after tonight. We have two shows and it’s my biggest sing… Brendan if you’re reading this I have confidence you teaching will serve me true and I’ll be able to sing over it.
Anyway, to sum up my time this cruise for you all…
After Acapulco (otherwise known as turnaround day to us) that night the cast performed Welcome Aboard (a 6 minute Ricky Martin number)… which I’m not in on this ship so as the cruise director was short a guest entertainer he got me to perform 3 songs as part of the whole welcome aboard show. Each cruise during the welcome aboard show the Cruise Director always finds out in the audience which couple has been married the longest and gives them a bottle of champagne. During my set I asked who in the audience had been married less that 20 months… when no one answered I said I guess that means I win that one and jokingly turned to Gavin the Cruise Director and said I think I should win a bottle of champagne. In the second show I came backstage and found a bottle of champagne in my dressing room… the couple who had won it the show before decided to give it to me. How sweet…. Although I copped it from the team… it was funny…. I didn’t dare try that joke again for the second show. So here is a picture of me outside my cabin with my champagne… I thought you’d want to see me in my new dress mum.
The next day we were back in Huatulco to once again glorious weather. See the photos of some of the guys having fun on the banana boat. The next day we were in Puerto Quetzal, Guatamela followed by a sea day which saw me finally start my interior design correspondence course.
The following day we were in Puntarenas, Costa Rica which turned out to be a really fun day. Dave, Brett (dancer), Matty (Aussie Cruise staff guy) Carly (Aussie spa girl) and Julie (Canadian spa girl) and I got a taxi 40 minutes from the ship up to the mountains to a place with great views and fun activities. Up there you can go on ATV’s, zip lining, swimming, horse riding, rock climbing. Matty, Carly and Julia went on the ATV’s but Dave, Brett and I just hung out and had a great lunch and met Billy (he’s a white nosed something… part of the racoon family I believe), we then went for a bit of a bush walk and lazed around in the hammocks. I took heaps of photos… honey I’m loving our camera!! We really felt like we didn’t work on a ship for a day… it was nice to get away.
Anyway I guess that’s it from me. Not much more to report. I am trying to get into a routine with going to the gym doing my course… however I have to say this cast is a bad influence on me a the moment… too many late nights in the crew bar!! I so can’t wait til Chris gets onboard 4 weeks and 4 days to go!!!! I can’t wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am missing him and Megsie sooooooooooooo much!!!
I can’t believe in 20 days time it will be Christmas. Christmas for us will be spent in Aruba. We are all planning on trying to get into one of the hotel/resorts here for Christmas lunch. Some of the girls are going to try and book it today so fingers crossed we can get in somewhere.
In two days time we’ll be back in San Juan which will mean it’s been 10 days since we were in Acapulco and the end of my 4th cruise onboard. The punters (as I like to call them) have been nice this cruise… Dave and I even got fan mail. We’ve had many compliments which has been nice. Hopefully they’ll still think I’m good after tonight. We have two shows and it’s my biggest sing… Brendan if you’re reading this I have confidence you teaching will serve me true and I’ll be able to sing over it.
Anyway, to sum up my time this cruise for you all…
After Acapulco (otherwise known as turnaround day to us) that night the cast performed Welcome Aboard (a 6 minute Ricky Martin number)… which I’m not in on this ship so as the cruise director was short a guest entertainer he got me to perform 3 songs as part of the whole welcome aboard show. Each cruise during the welcome aboard show the Cruise Director always finds out in the audience which couple has been married the longest and gives them a bottle of champagne. During my set I asked who in the audience had been married less that 20 months… when no one answered I said I guess that means I win that one and jokingly turned to Gavin the Cruise Director and said I think I should win a bottle of champagne. In the second show I came backstage and found a bottle of champagne in my dressing room… the couple who had won it the show before decided to give it to me. How sweet…. Although I copped it from the team… it was funny…. I didn’t dare try that joke again for the second show. So here is a picture of me outside my cabin with my champagne… I thought you’d want to see me in my new dress mum.
The next day we were back in Huatulco to once again glorious weather. See the photos of some of the guys having fun on the banana boat. The next day we were in Puerto Quetzal, Guatamela followed by a sea day which saw me finally start my interior design correspondence course.
The following day we were in Puntarenas, Costa Rica which turned out to be a really fun day. Dave, Brett (dancer), Matty (Aussie Cruise staff guy) Carly (Aussie spa girl) and Julie (Canadian spa girl) and I got a taxi 40 minutes from the ship up to the mountains to a place with great views and fun activities. Up there you can go on ATV’s, zip lining, swimming, horse riding, rock climbing. Matty, Carly and Julia went on the ATV’s but Dave, Brett and I just hung out and had a great lunch and met Billy (he’s a white nosed something… part of the racoon family I believe), we then went for a bit of a bush walk and lazed around in the hammocks. I took heaps of photos… honey I’m loving our camera!! We really felt like we didn’t work on a ship for a day… it was nice to get away.
Anyway I guess that’s it from me. Not much more to report. I am trying to get into a routine with going to the gym doing my course… however I have to say this cast is a bad influence on me a the moment… too many late nights in the crew bar!! I so can’t wait til Chris gets onboard 4 weeks and 4 days to go!!!! I can’t wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am missing him and Megsie sooooooooooooo much!!!
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