Sea Days

March 17th-19th
At Sea

As usual, not much to report. The weather has gotten cold, foggy, and always threatening of rain. The past three days have mostly consisted of me waking up in the morning, breakfast, computer/internet stuff, practice, rehearsal, gym, shows, bed. I have been sitting in with the jazz quartet though, so that’s been nice, unfortunately they sign off in Southampton, but I’ve been glad to take advantage of them while I could.
On the 19th I went to a talk that was given by a couple guest passengers on the cruise. The 3 people had actually been touring the world on their motorcycles, and their schedules lined up with our stop in Florida so that they worked out a way to get their bikes on the ship and get a ride back to England. They gave a 45 minute interview all about their trip, where they’d been over the past 7 months, and what all was involved. It was interesting to listen to and only encourages me with my seize the moment type arguably stupid ideas, but we’ll see if I ever organize a trip like that (but you can bet it’ll be on the blog if I do!). Anyway, it was great to listen to them and meet them afterward, and just cool that they were able to work this out with the cruise ship so that they didn’t have to air mail their bikes home.
That aside, this brings us to the end of the first cruise. As of the 20th, I’ll have 2 cruises left, or 29 days till I get home, meaning I’m a few days past the half way point. It was a long cruise, it was interesting and completely different from my other ships, but it’s been a lot of fun so far and I’m sure this final month will be over before I know it. As always, thanks so much for reading!!