Southampton

Aug 28th, 29th, 30th
Southampton

28th - Nothing big today, I didn’t even get off the ship. We had a welcome show and a parade to do tonight, big waste of time. Tomorrow is a sea day as we make our way to Poland.
29th – Sea day, Captain’s Cocktail jazz set, and a couple shows tonight. We have a new trumpet player in the band who is unfortunately not exactly of the caliber we’ve been used to. He can make it through the shows, but it’s not as clean as it was with the past lead trumpet, Lex, and he doesn’t sound like a lead player. So that’s kind of a drag, but hopefully he’ll start getting these parts done soon.
30th – Another Sea day, but Mike Doyle was back on the ship for the show that night. I like his show because it has some nice flute parts. But aside from that, I don’t recall anything important from the day. Tomorrow is Gdansk though, out first port on this cruise.