January 4, 2012
Happy 2012, y’all!First of all let me start off with New Year’s Eve! What a crazy night that was! We started off by throwing about a million (or maybe a few less than a million) balloons and then BILLIONS of pieces of confetti, let me tell you! The cast members and the techs all spread out around the top deck of the Centrum and at midnight we started dropping everything and it was chaos but it was so beautiful…until the balloons hit the ground and people began stepping on them and popping them…that was kind of annoying.
Anyways, after that was done we went and hung out in Jason’s cabin for a while then we had to move a bunch of stuff back into the theatre but then we went back to Jason’s and kept celebrating. After that we went to the Crew Bar for a little while before finally crashing into bed around 4am. Holidays on ships are pretty insane!
When it was the 31st back home I called a bunch of friends at Midnight to wish them a Happy New Year! If I didn’t call you please don’t get sad! I only had so many minutes left on my phone card! I promise I love all of you! It was awesome talking to the ones I got to talk to, I miss you all SO MUCH!
Since then we’ve just been doing the usual thing, we’re currently on the last cruise with the cast that’s here now, then they’ll all leave on the 15th and the new cast will be here. Once that happens we’ll be in “Install Mode” which means working 17 hour days which therefore means you all probably won’t hear much from me. I am also going to be on duty from the 14th through the 18th which is also going to be insane because we’ll be getting the new cast and also a bunch of guest entertainers (those are the people who perform on the nights we don’t have production shows).
Right now we are on our way to the islands of New Caledonia and Vanuatu—they’re in the South Pacific, basically. Everyone is looking forward to getting some beach time in! It’s been pretty chilly in New Zealand and so it will be good to get some sand, sun and water!
Here are a couple fun stories from today:
First, I was working at the Rockwall this afternoon and a woman came up to sign up a couple of her children. So, I gave the forms, explained it all out, and then as she was writing things she turned to her one son and said something to him in French! And I was like ooh! So, I asked her (in French) if they were French and she said yes! And we talked for a short while, found out that she’s from Northern France (she didn’t specify where) but they live in Sydney and her one son was born in France but they moved to Australia when he was 2 months old. I spoke French with him while I harnessed him up, too, and he seemed really excited that I could speak to him in French and the girl who was working the desk with me was like “I didn’t realize you spoke French so well!” and I laughed and said “I’m just lucky this much has stuck almost 2 years out of college!” Another co-worker of mine said “Why do you get so excited when you meet French people?” and I replied “Because I like speaking French! Don’t be jealous just because you don’t speak another language!” Good times, man, good times.
Second story: we sailed by another ship from our fleet today! The Rhapsody of the Seas has been doing the Australia run for a while now and today they were on their way back to Sydney and we’re on our way out so the captain of their ship and then our captain arranged for us to sail by one another. We weren’t super close but close enough that we could kind of see the people out on the decks and we all shouted and waved at each other and the captains blew the whistles. I took some photos and some videos so I’ll post those as soon as I can. The Rhapsody is in a class below ours so it’s quite a bit smaller, but, it’s a decent size all the same!
Lauren (my roommate) has family cruising this cruise so she’s going to be gone a lot so I’ll have my cabin all to myself. Today I cleaned out a whole bunch of stuff that doesn’t belong to either one of us which freed up some nice space. I’m just hoping that I don’t get a phone call that I have to move cabins when the new cast gets here—I’m really looking forward to commandeering the bottom bunk, I think my hip will be much happier not having to haul myself up to the top bunk all the time.
Finally, I received a lovely care package from one Miss Erica B. when we were in Sydney! It contained some delicious treats, a few adorable magnets (did you know that the walls in my cabin are magnetic?! Magnets are so much win) a beautiful scarf and some cute earrings! You are full of win, bestie!
I guess that’s it for now, hope you all had a wonderful start to the new year!
xoxo
B
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