Sea Day

Jan 1st, 2008
Sea Day

Happy New Year, Yay!!!! Historically, I’ve never been a new years kind of person. I remember last new years quite clearly. I was at my house sitting upstairs watching the ball fall on TV, I believe I was either by myself or with my brother. Year’s past haven’t been much more exciting than that, more or less because I was out of town with my parents and the opportunity was never really there. But this time was different. I was originally upset that I had a show to play on the Promenade (the area that looks like a big street) from 11 pm to 12:15 am…I didn’t want to be working on my first new year on my own. But I put on my tux, got my music together, and went up stairs to play the gig. As we started playing, more and more people started to fill into the Promenade, and before I knew it, the street was absolutely packed from wall to wall. The band was in a great mood from some drinks that had been had before heading upstairs, so between that and the energy of the packed room, I really started to have a good time. It turned out being way more like a rock concert than a ship gig, it was so much fun. Then we saw the ball drop on a projection they had playing up against the wall, did the standard Auld Lang Syne, played a few more tunes and got out of there to continue the party on our own. I hung out around Justin’s room for a while after that, he had bought a lot of beer and a couple bottles of good Champaign, and headed up to the Dungeon for a bit right after that. The Dungeon wasn’t really happening as I’d hoped it would be, so after hanging there for maybe 15 minutes, I moved to the back deck to check the party there, which was equally disappointing. I headed back to my room to hang with my friends a bit more and then called it a night. So I guess all in all, even though the post New Years stuff wasn’t much to brag about, the actual party when it counted was really great and I had a fantastic time.
The sea day that followed was fairly standard. I did the shopping show in the morning (pushed back a couple hours for all the hung over guests), and the rest of the day was fairly open. I hope you all had a great new years and I hope you’re having a marvelous start to 2008!