Sea Day

Nov 30th
Sea Day

This morning I was scheduled to do another one of those Port and Shopping shows where I get paid $10 an hour to help out. That went fine, aside from me not waking up that morning. I had to be there at 8:30, and had set my alarm for 7:55 am to give me enough time to shower, get dressed, and get a light breakfast before the show. There is an alarm system on the phones in our cabins that is pretty simple to use, and when it goes off, the phone simply rings. I heard the alarm go off at 7:55 and decided not to touch it, knowing that I’d go off two minutes later, sort of a short automatic snooze button. Turns out, I never heard the second time it went off, or any time after that. Then at 8:40 when the organizer of this activity noticed I was unusually later, he called me, a call that I also didn’t hear. It wasn’t till 8:55 when he called me for a second time that I finally heard it and woke up. So I missed some of the prep work, no big deal really, and no one seemed too upset with it, but I’m still somewhat disappointed in myself, while amazed that I was able to sleep through a so many blaring phone rings.
Following the show that went fine, there’s not much else to report back about. We played our Captain’s Cocktail set that evening, and that was about all. Later that night, Brandon and I went up to the SOB as he wanted to buy a few drinks for later. After finding out a few days earlier that him and a number of other people in the orchestra like the game of chess, we ended up finding a chess board in the SOB and played all night. So there were 5 of us musicians huddled around the chessboard from about 9:30 to 1:15…not boring at all, right? I don’t know why I stayed so long, but what ever, it was kind of funny thinking about how nerdy we all must have looked being so intrigued watching our friends play chess. Tomorrow is Cozumel. Brandon and I are planning on renting some bikes from the ship for a cheap $5, with the intention of doing some exploring. I know Pieter expressed some interest in renting a bike as well, thinking we should try riding around the island, so maybe he’ll come with us tomorrow. But it should be fun so long as the weather is as nice as it’s been at each port.