buffet pig

Well, it’s been a while since I’ve written. And really I don’t have any excuse- except that I’ve been using all my spare time for working and planning for things.
I am in charge of the 18-20’s group – and this cruise I’ve really taken it up a notch in terms of what I’ve been scheduling. This week, we are doing a midnight movies under the stars, a hot tub party in the sanctuary and all sorts of fun stuff. The activities themselves aren’t that important – it’s more important that they all get a chance to meet up with each other every day and make new friends.

It is so weird, but here the 18-20 year olds aren’t really considered adults. It’s stupid because they totally are, but since the drinking age in the US (and thus onboard the ship) is 21, we have to ‘keep them occupied’. I think that it would be far better to do an under 23’s young cruiser’s group, but sadly we can’t do this because, quite clearly, the 21-23’s would buy the 18-20’s alcohol…

Last night was a “back to school” theme party in the crew bar. I was there for
about 2 hours but then Mark and I both kind of lost interest. The sea was very rocky last night (the roughest I’ve seen it) and my shoes were a bit slippery. Then we committed the ultimate sin. We went to buffet.

Three weeks of healthy eating cancelled out in one drunken buffet binge! Horizon Court/Café Caribe (our awesome buffets) are open 24 hours a day and really, there is no comparison back at home to the quality and types of food offered around the clock.

I had roast ham, guacamole, salad, bacon, scampi scampi scampi… you know, I’m really proud I didn’t have any real carbs.. but I already pigged out on a Tortuga rum cake that Liz put in the office for us to snack on. I swear I ate half that damn cake.

SO yesterday was probably not a good day for me diet wise. I did, however, do a lot of running so hopefully the damage is not so bad.
I try and vary my running, but I have been going every day (I’ve even started getting up early on sea days to run). I either run 8 laps of promenade deck (deck 7) which is 5 kilometers (which gives you an idea of how big the Emerald Princess is) OR I run 30 laps of the deck 19 track, which is only 3 kilometers and then do full court lay-ups on the bball court for 10 minutes.

Promenade deck is obviously my favourite for running. On the EP, the deck goes up one level around the front of the ship – so there are very steep stairs followed by a crazy head wind – it’s good for stamina. After I run, I go to the gym and do about half an hour of weights and conditioning. It’s just a shame I put all my hard work to waist (see what I did there?) with my extreme porker actions yesterday.
Today I should be hungover, but because I now drink only vodka, lime and soda , I seem to be cheating nature and have not had a hangover for the past 3 weeks. I love my vodka lime and soda.