rainy day in sunny mexico

Today is raaainy! I got up at 7am to work out, started to get ready and turned on the “window” (the TV channel that shows the webcam from the bridge), took off my shoes and got back into bed again. You couldn’t see anything, the rain was so heavy. Our arrival to Cozumel was delayed and the passengers are generally a bit grumpy – but I think they’ll still have a good day. After all, you can’t control the weather (unless you are X-men).

I am on IPM today. I had a ping pong tournament at 9 (cancelled as they were taking apart the tables for some reason), board games get together at 10 (no one came) and a trivia at 11.15. Of course there were still 12 people at the trivia, as the trivia nuts are so crazy for trivia they will always stay on board if it is on. At least until it’s over. Now I have a nice 3 hour break (which I used to mostly to go to horizon court for a delicious meal). Then I have putt putt (a crazy activity where we play putt putt in the piazza) and then another trivia at 4:30. After that I have to decorate club fusion for fright night, but apparently I have library from 5-6 and then my appraisal at 6:30 so I don’t know where I’m going to find time!

Tonight is fright night. Fright night is pretty much my favourite theme night. I dress as .. I don’t know, part ghoul and part bride of frankenstien. I do my crazy hair (for those who saw MacBeth, you will understand what this is) and generally run around saying “spooky”, “freaky” and “creepy” at people in a warbly voice and making cat sounds. It’s really fun. For fright night Itself, we start with dancing to ghostbusters, then we do the “spooky slide” which is just the electric slide to spooky music. Then we do the time warp (which is awesome). Next is the mummy game where we choose 3 couples who were dancing and get the lady to wrap the man up in toilet paper – the best “mummy” winning champagne.

Then, the best bit, we teach the passengers the thriller dance !! They love it! I love it! Fright Night is the best.

Tonight we also have the Princess Popstar finals. My job is to stay in the “green room” with the passengers (which is actually just a blocked off area of club fusion) and interview them via video feed after they sing (like on idol). Basically I pretend to get drunker and drunker as the interviews go on, we make jokes and have fun and at the end I fall over and pass out.

So that’s my night – it’s a big one and I have 2 hours of break left – so I’m gonna have an hour nap. That is how cruise staff survive. Hour naps whenever we can.