Sea Day

March 18th
Sea Day

Sea Days! Remember those…I sure do. Well, like most sea days, there’s never that much that happens, and on this ship there’s no exception. I had an early morning training, stuff everyone has to do when they got on a ship, and then the rest of the day to myself up until the big band sets that night. Most of the day was spent sleeping, I figure I need some energy, not to mention the transition back to a windowless room makes me terribly lethargic. The big band sets that night weren’t bad, but are completely different than the Nav. Where as we would play the big band sets in the Nav in the Ice Rink, seeing as this ship doesn’t have a rink, we play somewhere more towards the center of the ship where more people can hear us just by walking on any of the 7 floors that are exposed to this central location. We played the sets standing up, which was a little different, but no problem. The band doesn’t sound bad though, so that’s good. There are some weak areas, but nothing that I feel is really detrimental to the band. I do miss my old group, but I’ll still have a good time where I’m at. So we played two 45 minute sets, and that was it for the night. I went up to the bar for St. Patrick’s day, who knows why we did it a day late, met a few new friends and headed back to the room. I’m not so much a fan of that bar on the back deck, I really prefer the lounge type of area we had on the Nav, it was much more comfortable. Well, at least that’ll keep me from going back there for drinks. And I guess that’s about all I got for ya. Tomorrow will be my first port day, which I’m excited for, I think we’ll be in Halong Vietnam…I could be totally wrong, but I’ll figure it out when I get there. Thanks!