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.
Welcome to Cadiz! Had a lovely day practicing my basic Spanish and wondering the lovely streets. Its a beautiful City!
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.
O.k. everyone...so my Caribbean season is over. I am currently in the Middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in the middle of 7 sea days with Ponta Delgada, Portugal splitting them up after 4 sea days. We are going ahead an hour every night for 5 nights in a row. But on May 6th, I will be in Southampton, England! My last week in the Caribbean was bitter sweet. I truly love these Islands. My pics are a locals beach in Antigua, myself and friends on a Catamaran Tour in Antigua, full day, around the Island, going to secluded beach AND on the way back our catamaran ran into a whole school of dolpins that came over and started playing with the boat! It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen. The last pic is myself and my friend Clarissa from New Zealand in Grand Cayman at this cool restaurant. You dine on the pier hanging over the water, and if you get hot, you climb down the ladder into the ocean, go and swim, climb back up and eat! Talk about all the greatest worlds combined into one.
So this is the end of the Caribbean for this season, on comes the Med, I can't wait. Bring on Rome!
Hope to have pics once we get our feet back on land!!!!
1. I went swimming with Dolphins a second time, this time in Isla Margarita, Venezuela
O.k., off to crew bar, for some wine, i'll post more tonight.
In St. Kitts our ship Football team arranged to play against the St. Kitts semi-pro team. When we arrived at the field we found the school children playing and they LOVED us! They all wanted pictures taken and wanted to have all the attention. It was so much fun, i'm sure my Dad would have been in heaven.
Tom, don't worry about Shivram...he is like a brother to me. Seriously, I've never had a guy treat me like you do until I met Shivram. He picks on me daily and any guy who shows any interest, well Shivram demands to meet him. So you should feel good about that.
Another day in the Sun. A group of us went to Emerald Pool in Dominica today, it was a 45 minute van ride up the mountain, with a stop at a fruit stand where you ate all the fresh fruit you wanted and pay nothing, just leave a $1.00 tip. We gorged on Bananas, Pineapples, Grapefruit, Sugar Cane, Coconut and some wierd thing that you suck on??? (Don't get any ideas guys, this was a "clean" day). Then we continued our way up the mountain and then hiked to the pools, it was soooooooo cool. The water felt like Lake of the Woods in the summer, refreshingly cool and it wasn't really deep so we could goof around. We hiked the rest of the way to the lookout points and then went back to the ship. Totally a great day, really sunny and warm. Hope you're all doing well. Hilary...how's the Yukon??? Hope you haven't frozen to death, i'll send you some rays of sunshine!!!
Spent the day shopping in Curacao today. It was the coolest little Island. Every house was painted a different colour, and all bright. The history is that when Curacao was being built up the Governor insisted that everyone's house be painted something other then white, and must be re-painted every so often (can't remember how long he has proclaimed). So everyone followed this and later on in life, after this man moved on from his position as Governor they found out that he at his point of power owned the only paint shop in Curacao!!!! Greedy bugger! I had a great Cappacino, with friends, sitting by the waterfront and baking in the sun. See a pattern here???
Today I had a great day. I went on a hike to Maracas Falls in Trinidad. It was about an hour hike and because it was raining it was hard, really slippery. But totally worth it when we got to the top. You can't really understand how beautiful it was by picture, but honestly it was wonderful. Also...I am attaching a picture of myself with the two ARMED police officers who had to come along on the hike. Because of the way Trinidad is at the moment, any hike needs to have police officers (armed) with the hike in case something happens. They were super cool guys and I thought Dad you might like the picture! ha ha ha enjoy!
O.k. so another picture. This was in St. Maarten this cruise. I got off the ship early morning so no one was on the beach and me and a friend went for Breakfast. It was so beautiful and quiet. We walked along the beach for a while and loved the space before the frenzy of shopping tourists arrived.
Now as I begin to take over Hotel Secretary position part of my duties is taking the VIPs to the bridge for visits and tours. Last night I took a group of 4 VIPs to the bridge for sail-a-way from St. Kitts. I have never been in the Bridge for sailaway and let me just tell you that it was soooooo beautiful. The sun was setting, you got the best view of the Island AND just as we were turning, we saw a rainbow, now just one side of it, we saw the full arc, up and down. It was stunning. So thats my "awe inspiring moment" for this installation of "Oh Such a Hard Life aboard a Cruise Chip" ha ha ha.
