Sea Day/Lauderdale

Nov 28th-29th
Sea day/Lauderdale

The sea day was about as uneventful as most. We had to rehearse the farewell show for he dancers, and then perform it twice that night, which was then followed by a jazz set. The day itself wasn’t anything too spectacular, I just spent some time writing blogs and doing my usual other internet errands. I went to the dungeon that night thinking that the new cast would be having some fun in the night club on the last day of this cruise, but it was absolutely devoid of crew members. So, I went up to the SOB (staff and officers bar) to see what was going on up there. The SOB turned out to be packed, so I hung out for 20 minutes or so till I eventually made it back to my room to just hang with some of my friends here.
The plan for Lauderdale was to get off the ship, take a taxi to a music store, and then hang around the area for a bit. The group that I was going with consisted of Pieter, Brandon, and Gianni (a guitarist on the ship). Pieter said Gianni knew exactly where to go and had the address, so I figured it’d be nice to get off the ship, see if I could pick up a few things, and have a good day. That didn’t go quite to plan… First, it took forever to get off the ship for who knows what reason. It wasn’t till 11:20 that we actually got off, 90 minutes later than originally planned. When we got outside and grabbed the taxi, I found out that no one really had a solid idea on where we were going. After being quoted $20 to go to the music store, somehow, between the poor language of the driver and our general confusion on what we really wanted, the course got changed to sawgrass mills, twice the distance away, and therefore twice the price. While everyone else went to best buy, circuit city, or where ever else they needed to go, I walked to this gigantic shopping mall and looked around for a couple hours before meeting up with everyone again. Unfortunately, after the superb display of incompetence with directing the taxi driver, I was in a terrible mood over the extra $10 I knew this would cost me. Sure, $10 isn’t a lot, but when it’s a result of people not knowing where to go, and me going along more so for the ride than the actual shopping, I was pretty upset. So I spent that part of the day sulking around the shopping mall, which slightly cheered me up, but I couldn’t manage to bring myself to buy anything. After meeting up with everyone, we walked to an office max, where Pieter managed to take another 30 minutes out of our day searching for a printer cartridge, all while swearing there was some sort of taxi stop in front of the store (which turned out to be completely untrue, further aggravating my disposition). When it was finally time to leave the store, we got the cashier to call a cab for us, who then took us back to the ship for another $40. We got back, did the passenger boat drill, a rehearsal, welcome aboard show, and that was about it for the day. This cruise that we’re just leaving on today is a 4 day cruise to Cozumel and back, meaning tomorrow is a sea day, the day after is Cozumel, followed by a sea day returning to Florida, and then we’ll be back home after that. Keep checking back for more posts, thanks!