Well today is the fourth day at sea and I am starting to
feel like this is going to be the hardest part of my journey. The problem is that I am starting to run out
of things to do. Yes I have shows but
since this is a 15 day cruise our shows are spaced out with many days in
between. My first show of this cruise is
tomorrow and then my next one after that is in five days!!! It will be great when I am at a port but it
is just ocean and more ocean for me right now and in a way the ship can be compared
to a floating fish bowl because there are only so many times I can swim around
the tank. The other thing is that the
internet is very spotty right now because, dare I say, I am in the dead center
of the Bermuda triangle.
In one way I am getting very creative in trying to fill my
time. Last night I ended up taking the
game “Connect Four” that I had left in my room for me to the officers bar (and
in case I haven’t told you yet this is the place where only officer stature
crew can go and drink without guests present on the crew deck…it can be a fun
place) so I went to the officer bar and ended up playing connect four with a mechanic
named Mark. I walked in and he was
holding an empty bottle of Jack Daniels like a baby (most of which I am certain
he drank) and I asked him what the occasion was and it turned out that he had
just had his first baby girl delivered back at home only a few hours prior to
that. Needless to say, I let him win.
After exhausting my want to play board games I got to talking
to CJ (she is a veteran of the ship….this is her 6th year and knows
almost everything about it) She filled
me in on some pretty eerie coincidences that are going to be happening in the
next couple weeks.
You know the Titanic, right? Turns out this April 15th
will be the 100th anniversary of her sinking into the Atlantic. It also turns out that we will be directly
over the Titanic exactly a week before that date. The other strange coincidence is that we will
be stopping in Cherbourg, France two days before she stopped there only to hit
an ice burg and sink. Not only that but
the SS California was the ship that tried to warn the Titanic of the ice burg
and it ended up sinking right off the coast of Bermuda a few years after
that. This also happens to be the place
we are going to right now. Wow, usually all
this kind of stuff wouldn’t even phase me but there has been a legitimate fire
alarm in the engine room and a complete blackout in the last week. Pretty eerie for me. And to top it off the boat has been rocking
so much things are falling off of shelves.
Now I know I am making is sounds rather bleak. But the truth is the ship is fine, (its ok
mom:)), I could also have a
degree in ship evacuation with all the training I have received, and so far I
have been mostly sea sickness free which is something I can’t say about the
rest of my cast. All I know is that if
bright unexplainable lights start coming from the sky or the ship starts
traveling into another time I will just get a grip and hold on.
But right now being in the center of the Bermuda Triangle is
thankfully uneventful.:)
1 comment:
It is fun to read your blog. We were on the Ryndam in March for two weeks just before they changed performers, so unfortunately we never got to hear you, but we did quite enjoy those we did hear.
I hope the rest of your passage across the Atlantic goes better and seasickness doesn't strike.
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