Friday, March 25, 2005

Happy Easter!

A bit premature being Good Friday but most of my suday will be spent at sea. However Lorna and I will be doing the service on board which is cool - if a tad nerve-wracking. We´re having an Easter Egg hunt for the kids which should be a riot as there´s about 80 of them on this week! I´m getting up on stage for the Welcome Show tonight for the first time aswell:)

Had a gorgeous week weather wise. We went out for team meal on Wednesday in Agadir and had a lovely time. We did however get rather sunburned and I still have the red arms to prove it! It was fab I had some Moroccan meatball thing followed by a crepe with strawberyy ice-cream and the entertainment included a random singing guy and a tiny tortoise that was found in a bush by the patron ´Madame Mimi´! I´ll put some pics up when I get chance.

Only got 3 weeks left on board, eeek. Trying to organise stuff for my week at home aswell as planning for going on the other ship. I met my Cruise Director this week as he cam on board to see how things work and he seems like a cool guy. He´s a Trekkie and likes Red Dwarf - Fantastic!

Saturday, March 19, 2005

"Fine"

This seems to be the phrase of the ship at the moment. If you ask someone how they are, they are going to reply ´"Fine" even though they blatantly have a cold, are tired, in pain or some other way indisposed! That word has never bugged me so much in my life. I guess it´s just irritating because I actually meant it when I said "How are You?" and that reply is sooo annoying!

Sorry....vent over.

I am "Fine" at the mo, except for the muscle pain which has taken up residence in the top of my left leg, making it nearly impossible to walk DOWN stairs. Walking up, no probs - going down, agony (?!). Still after 3 days it´s now got to the level of ´I know it´s there but I can ignore it´ so I shall go on being fine until it actually disappears and then I shall be "Fantastic!". As long as I can get some sleep in between so i don´t fell quite as bleugh and unsociable as I do right now!

I met my Cruise Director on "The Destiny" today. His name´s Rob and, get this, he´s American! and watches Star Trek!!!! So now 3 members of my family are working for American bosses - freaky.

Only 4 weeks left before I disembark. Seems odd to think I´ll be leaving, am actually trying not to think about it too much because hopefully it won´t hit home until I´m safely ensconssed on ´Destiny´ and surrounded by a new lot of folks. I am gonna miss these guys though. Even though I move around a lot doing different work and contracts I hope I never get to the point where I´m blasee about saying goodbye and end up not getting to know people just so it´s easier. I think that would be a very lonely way to be.

I got an Easter card off my Mum yeasterday. Bob hand delivered it to me (literally I was lying on my bed reading and he gave it to me!) I read it and then for some inexplicable reason burst into tears! I think it was more the religous side to the card rather than being homesick. I´m not homesick but I really miss going to church and being able to discuss my spiritual well being with my mates. I have tried to be diligent with reading my Bible but as usual have failed miserably. It´s not like I´m slipping or anything, I just feel the need for some fellowship now and then and on here it´s next to impossible. Still me and Lorna are going to watch´"The Passion of Christ" on Friday so that might help, well if it has the same effect on me as last time I´ll be sobbing through most of it but we´ll see!

Lloyd has had to go home for a week for medical reasons. The poor guy just seems to have had one thing after another and it is easier to send him home to sort it out so he´s off today. Any spare Prayers/Thoughts or mojo in his direction would be much appreciated.

I´m now on a mission to see if I can find/create some hot cross buns - any ideas for finding these things in the Canary Islands much appreciated!

Friday, March 11, 2005

Comings and Goings

Lack of a post last week I realised. Which is probably gonna make this one long!

Can I just say that I am sat in the ´Ciber-Scout´Cafe in Santa Cruz and next tome is sitting a guy with the worst BO known to man so I´m attempting to be as quick as possible!

I got my guitar last week. It´s so nice to have an insrument to play and the quality of sound is amazing! My fingers are in a small amount of pain from practising so much but that´ll get less if I play alot :)



On Gran Canaria day this week Me and Dom went shopping. I wanted to get a suit so that I can wear some of the vest tops I´ve got in the evenings (it makes sense to me...OK!). I asked Dom if she´d come with me as I´m hopeless at picking out clothes and her fashion sense is just so flippin´ cool :)

I went for a suit and somehow came back with 2 Outfits (no suit though!), a pair of shoes and a lighter wallet, although I don´t want to scare anyone so I won´t say how much lighter (my mum reads this you know!). The crowning moment for me was the boys reactions, they were so sweet! Even if I can´t walk more than about 5m in the shoes at one go!?


I haven´t worn the other outfit yet. I did wear the top lat night when I went for a meal in ´Sirocco´s´though.

Sirocco´s is the A la Carte restaurant onboard - v.nice :) Ron was on again this week (a regular cruiser who always brings presents for the Ents team and we treat him like royalty! :) )and he took several of us to the restaurant throughout the week. So last night´s meal went something like this:


Escargot with a sizzling butter + Garlic sauce

Cream of Cauliflower Soup

Parma Ham and Mozzerella Salad

Lemon Sorbet in Champagne

Lobster Tail with Garlic butter sauce and Fresh Vegetables

Crepe Suzette

Chocolate Dipped Strawberries and Coffee


Sooo gorgeous - Who knew Snails could be that nice :)

Ron´s back on in 4 weeks - my last week and the week my Mum and her friend are on.

Speaking of last week´s (see what I did there!)Anthony left today. He was the Sound technician. He´s gong home for a bit and then going on the Celebration as Tech, that´s the ship that David (who left last week) is going to be Cruise Director on and Bob (who´s here at the moment as David´s replacement) is going to be Assistant Cruise Director on - confused? It gets better!

Felino, Anthony´s replacement is going to the Destiny in 3 weeks, I´m leaving in 4 weeks and Dante is now also moving to the Destiny (presumably before me or at the same time) so the Spirit´s tech team is going to be rather interesting for the next 2 months :) think the person replacing me on here is Simon. So I´ve asked one of the show team (Kim) to learn all the costume changes for ´Hobson´s Choice´ so that he doesn´t have to do them if he doesn´t want to.

I´ve managed to programme that b****y lighting Desk in HS - Hurrah, hang out the flags!!! it only took me 4 weeks but I finally sussed out the chromadome chases etc and now the ´R´n´B´Cabaret has it´s own states :)))))