Friday, April 14, 2017

Sea Day - April 13

I’m finally starting to feel human again with an extra sea day to relax. 

There was a Tug of War competition for some of the staff. What fun to watch. I laughed so hard. Our waiter Tommy was on Team Oscar, so we were rooting for him. Rupesh, the casino guy for Bingo was on another team. We rooted for him too, but they didn’t progress. After all of the various departments competed, Team Oscar won! Oscar told us at dinner that he offered an extra incentive to his team to win. The 5 of them would get 24 hours off from work, a steak dinner at the Steakhouse and a bottle of wine. The prize offered by the Cruise Director was a pizza party. So, besides the bragging rights, they got a really good reward. Time off is probably what they cherish the most, since the crew works 7 days a week for 9 months at a time with only hours off between breakfast, lunch and dinner. 



dolphins while the Tug of War was going on



 our waiter, Tommy in the gloves





 Rupesh and the Casino crew
 the waiters









We didn’t win at Bingo today, but came really close. Allison won the coverall and we are always happy when our “Bingo Buddies” win. 

We ate in the dining room for lunch today and sat with a couple we have met before and 2 sisters that we have never seen before and they have been on since LA. It’s a small ship, hard to believe we haven’t seen everyone by now.

Tonight’s show was Master Gauchos, Hilario & Haley. They were quite entertaining with their Argentinian performance of dance, whips and the balls. 

Once again, the cruise director Sammi switched the shows around so the early show was now the late show, so the early show was overcrowded with early and late seating dining people that didn’t want to wait until the later show. People chose their dining time to correspond with the earlier show. Not sure why she is doing that. (and before a port day when we wanted to finish the evening earlier not later.

We are very excited about visiting Ceuta, Spain tomorrow!

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