Ny Alesund & North Cape

O.k. guys this is a little bit of a collage of photos. The photo of me on the radio is in Ny Alesund which is the closest town you can get to the North Pole. Honestly there was maybe 20 buildings. I was there on the path to protect passengers from DIVE BOMBING birds. They didn't want any passengers off the path otherwise the birds attack them. God was it funny to see all these old people running from birds going for their eyes ha ha ha! Really the only thing in this town is Reindeer, dive bombing birds and a few people there to do research. The light bluish building behind me is the most popular tourist attraction and that is the POST OFFICE.

The the picture of the man with the Reindeer and the baby Reindeer, that was out of Honningsvag and on my way up to the North Cape. We stopped at a Sami (native tribal) house and met them and their pet Reindeers. It was totally cool.

The other two pictures are from the North Cape, one being the posting showing our location and the other is scenic view from the edge of the North Cape cliff.

I've had a fabulous last cruise. Norway is beautiful and i've been so busy being outside experiencing as much as I could. Can't wait to tell you all about it.

Magdalena Fjord - The Most Northerly Point you can Reach!

Well today we are in the Magdalena Fjord which is the most Northerly Point any ship will go to. It was beautiful, cold and amazing. We all woke up at 6am to go outside with mugs of tea and watch as we came into the Fjord. It was so worth getting up that early. The pictures make it look so gloomy but in actual fact it was so majestic.

This was only for half the day, then we stopped in this little town of Ny Alesund which has maybe 10 buidings and 30 inhabitants. I haven't downloaded the pics from there yet, but I will and then put them on tomorrow.

6 DAYS AND COUNTING!

Norway

WELCOME TO NORWAY!!!

Not much to say, the pics say everything. It is absolutely beautiful! Reminds me of Alaska only even more remote.

See you all soon 1 week and counting.

What does Megan do Onboard??

Hello Family,

As request from my sweet little brother who OBVIOUSLY does not listen to ANYTHING I say, I will let you know what I do onboard the Sea Princess (and Tom now you have no reason now not to know because you can read it anytime someone asks you). O.k. so currently I am a Junior Assistant Purser which is a half stripe officer ranking onboard Princess Cruises. As a JAP we can rotate around and do quite a few different jobs. At the moment I am the Hotel Secretary. I work as the assistant to the Passenger Services Director (Hotels Manager) and the First Purser Administration. I have a lovely office with a big window so I can look at my surroundings all day (which is the major perk to my job). As Hotel Secretary I take care of all of the clerical work for the PSD and FPAD, I handle all VIPs onboard, I liase with the Captain and Staff Captain to co-ordinate Bridge Visits for Passengers and Sailaway Bridge Visits for the Red Level VIPs. I create the ship Food and Events Schedule for each cruise and liase with all Department Heads to ensure all of their activities are planned properly. I grade all passenger questionnaire that come in at the end of every cruise to evaluate the overall score for the ship. I take care of offloading all ship to shore packages and sorting and distributing all mail and packages coming onboard. I attend all cocktail, VIP and Most Travelled Pax parties. I organize the C.R.U.I.S.E. Committee which is the service credo onboard. I take all minutes from all ship meetings. Also above that I am also Crew Club Secretary, meaning I take all minutes from that meeting and because the Crew Club president and Vice Presidents onboard don't know how to organize events, I organize all crew activities and events. When my job doesn't keep me busy, I help the Crew Office with new crew sign on on turnaround day and I help the Tour Desk with Tour Dispatch (all of which is part of the Pursers Department). And finally I do crowd control when we arrive into ports late. I organize passengers into lines and sort them off the gangway so there is no caos. I also dispatch other crew members to stand in certain areas to keep pax moving in an orderly fashion.

So I hope this explains just how DAMN important I am on this ship! ha haha.

Love you all, can't wait to come home. I'm exhausted!

EOM Photo!

Hello Family and Friends,

Please see the proud Employee of the Month for June on the Sea Princess. Look at the hideous badge I need to wear, everone comments and my picture is up in passenger areas and crew areas. I feel like a tool...but hey, its worth $500.00.

And Thomas...I only had to sleep with ALL the engineers onboard to deserve this honor, seriously, it only took me 3 weeks. ha ha ha

Love you all and Yes Mum I am still alive. Coming home July 1st out of London Heathrow, then to Vancouver and then back to Winnipeg. But with all the time changes, I will be back in Kenora in time for the fireworks!!!! It will be hideously late in my body but I don't care, lets celebrate!!!

Love you all