Fjordland Splediferous!

Oh my word....

I can't believe more people don't visit the Norweigian Fjords. They are (except for possibly the Grand Canyon SUnset & Sunrise) the most awe inspiring thing I have seen. The best way to see them is definitely on a ship - and somebody pays me to be here!!!!

Tony (SM) saw his first ever snow last week and next cruise we're hoping to get on a tour in Geiranger that will mean he can see and (play with!) loads of it! We all stood up on deck with blankets and cameras and watched the huge mountains, waterfalls and greenery go past. It got so cold we looked like huddled blanket creatures but we still stayed there so we didn't miss anything. At one point the wind was so strong (we came to what can only be described as a T-Junction!) that if you jumped up you got blown backwards! They really are spectacular. I took loads of photo's - hopefully will have some up soon when I find land based internet.

This week has been a little more sedate. Today we are in Copenhagen. Got off and went for a wander - had my photo taken with 'the mermaid' - not at all how you expect it to be! Also we've had 2 birthdays in the team this week so we had a fantastic 'Guys and Dolls' themed party (from which I have about 200 photo's - narrowed down to about 80!) for which I had my hair and makeup done by Laura and then was persuaded to wear the Red Dress and Red Shoes that Dom picked out for me on the 'Spirit'. There were people who didn't recognise me, hehe!

There's been quite a bit of illness. All the girls except me and Alana have had colds, Danni and Leo still have bad throats and some of the lads have been in a bad way as well. All are now on the way to recovery but it has meant that we haven't known which shows we are doing until the afternoon of the same day - a little unerving fram a techie point of view! Still keeps us on our toes:)

Daylight reignd forever!

Just a quickie. Now started on the Fjord cruises.

We've just finished the second show for the evening - it's 11:45pm - and it's still LIGHT outside - vvvvvery weird!!! I suppose I'd better get used to it - but it's pretty cool :)

Also - saw my first oil rig today - interesting.......

urrr...there's a blip in the space/time continuum....

From many angles this cruise could quite easily be regarded as the most eventful yet (not that there's much to compare it too!), however there's still an overwhelming sense of well being and chilled-ness about the place.

So far this itinerary:
The House Tabs failed to go up in Guys and Dolls so we had to restart the show after calling the ETO and openeing about every power box backstage.

We had a major (and I mean MAJOR!!) problem with a power distributor and voltage regulator in the middle of Abigail's party which meant 10 minutes of the show was done without sound (it would be the bit with all the music cues!) and when we did get it working again we still had to cancel the second show for saftey reasons. At one point Tony and I were backed into the corners of the booth afraid to touch anything with one hand on the fire extinguisher!

Last night in the Swing show we had the 'band' silhouettes for the first time. 2 of them fell over as the House Tabs went up so muggins had to go from the back, up on stage and reset them - it was so fiddly that I only did one - shoved a stage weight in fornt of it to stop it happening again!- and then just 'put' the other iin the storage space ('threw' being too strong a word), took a bow - and all the passing comments off the passengers - and headed for the secrity of the booth.

All this has had the interesting result of all the passengers talking to Me and Tony more than they talk to the showteam - even if their questions run along the lines of "Any chance of being blown up tonight..?" after the 10th time, it's just not that funny!! Nice that they're interested though :) I'm not really looking forward to backstage tour tomorrow though :S

There's been a few tears and tantrums on the social scene but nothing that wasn't sorted out by the next morning so all in all things are sailing along nicely....'scuse the pun.

Have had some great times ashore and some even better nights onboard so am pretty cool :)

Have also just finished a VCD to send home for the folks back there to watch and see what I'm up to. Have missed some big personal events being on here and sometimes it really gets me, but at least with the job going ds well I can't get too down :)