Employee of the Month!

Hello Guys,

Well guess what...I have been voted Employee of the Month for June out of 800 Crew members! It will be announced in like 3 days and I will be receving.....$500.00 for winning this! I absolutely can't believe it. I'm totally flattered and extremely amazed at this. I'll send you the picture of me and the Captain as soon as I get it done.

Love you all!

Formal Photos for Dad

O.k. so my PaPa wanted to see pictures of our formal uniforms. Thank God the company has just changed what our formal uniforms are. They used to be nun outfits, now at least they have form to them. Sorry the pics are a little yellow...they are scanned.

Florence

Ahhhhh Florence. You see the tower picture. Yup I climbed that all 418 steps of it. And they are stone steps, extremely steep and narrow passageway all the way to the very top. I've also included the pic from the top. Man was that hard work but totally worth it when we got up there. We also saw the copy of the Statue David. I didn't go in to see the original as I really didn't feel like standing in line for 4 hours to get to him!!!! Seriously, he's just stone!

Rome!

When in Rome! We spent the ENTIRE day wondering around Rome. We went to the Vatican, Trevi Fountain and the Coliseum as well as many other amazing sights.

Cadiz

Welcome to Cadiz! Had a lovely day practicing my basic Spanish and wondering the lovely streets. Its a beautiful City!

Barcelona!

Spent the day in Barcelona. What a beautiful City. We went to Los Rambas and saw the monuments, the street performers, the pick pocketers and had a great meal.

Update

Greetings from the Middle of the Ocean!

Well we are almost finished our crossing. Tomorrow we arrive in Southampton, England. I absolutely can't wait to get off the ship. We did have a break in the sea days, we made it into Ponta Delgada, Portugal. I didn't have any time off, however I did weazel my way into escorting passengers back onto the transit buses to the ship and got to work outside. It was fabulous. We also ran into the town quickly before we had to re-embark and got whistled at in ten million different ways (of course I don't know what they were saying as it was in Portuguese.

We only had one majorly ruff day at sea. It was insane, everything had to be bolted down and all our liquor bottles fell onto the floor of the cabin, thank God for carpet!!!! The ship was rolling from side to side and all you could see is horizon...ocean...horizon...ocean. It was almost scary.

Above is an example of what we have been doing with our Sea days...here we were celebrating ANZAC Day! It is a national holiday for Australia and New Zealand. Its like our Remembrance Day except they celebrate instead of mourn.

Alright, I guess the next pics I send should be something from Europe! I am going to Rome on the 13th so I will send some pics of that.

Love you all.

Dear Family

O.k. so after all the "HATE MAIL" I am getting slightly upset about the hatred!

Now please....don't hate me because I am in the middle of the ATLANTIC OCEAN, I can't see any land, nothing, no birds, no outside life. I am encased in a moving hotel, where I cannot escape! I feel like the walls are closing in on me AND now my family is jealous of this???????

Seriously guys, you don't want to be where I am at the moment, I feel like i'm climbing the walls...HELP ME!