At last!
Christmas is over! You know I thought joining on an Xmas cruise would be fine,
and for the most part it was! But I forgot just how busy things were the last
time I did it.
Embarkation
day, so this day starts at around 7am with the regular’ get off my ship’
procedures. Then, we clean everything
and prepare the ship for the next cruise, and then it all starts again. Now for
the Xmas cruise of course there are decorations everywhere, and we had 3 girls
dressed up and singing acapella carols as people board the ship. I distinctly
remember one guy coming up the gangway and yelling ‘carols....really!’ Why the
hell would you come on a xmas cruise and then complain about the xmas
stuff..... I don’t get it! One guy explained later on that they had come to sea
to escape xmas, well to be honest they would have been better off in their
house, because we go full out cheesy xmas here.
Now to be
fair, the Australian crowd is SO much nicer than the American, I’ve done over 2
years on American ships and the aussie passengers are simply here to have a
good time, and thats exactly what they do. Amercian attitudes can be a little,
shall we say challenging. Not all of them mind you.
So myself
and another staff member are the choir directors again and we directed the xmas
choir for the past 13 days, somewhat stress full because didn’t have any of the
music for the xmas songs so we were pretty much directing as we went along, it
was pretty successful though. However, I
was expecting some good comment cards from the singers, they were full of
praise after the show and yet we only got 1 official comment. We were a little
peeved to say the least.
Christmas
day was insane, we started with mimosas in the office and bacon rolls, little
bit of drama with kitchens but nothing major. Secret Santa happened, lots of
fun, aided by mimosas of course. Then off to work, we did a ‘Ginger Bread House
decorating competition’ very, very busy but so much fun! Also, all of the
officers sang carols in the atrium, very cheesy but also, surprisingly fun.
Now for some
reason, on Boxing Day everyone was so miserable! My theories are that they knew
they were going home in a few days and realised they were never going to
experience my amazing enthusiasm, obviously. But to be honest usually that does happen on
an xmas cruise, for some reason that I really can’t think of, the day we get
the most complaints is xmas day. Weird.
So now begis the new years cruise, lets see what crayzeeness this will bring!
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