So my last two weeks of my contract were even more crazy than normal because of Christmas and new year... Sound familiar? Yes, I finished this contract at the exact same time as EPCOT so had a similar experience at the end. We went back to having the sea day on a Wednesday which I've decided I don't like as much as having it on a Monday. Christmas Eve we didn't end up finishing until quite late so we just had a drink at the bar and then called it a night. Christmas Day was the sea day and I was on my last day as Fairy Godmother in Training so that was quite a long day but we had some nice conversations with guests. Lots of chocolate and sweets were involved. I found the guests more sympathetic that we were away from our families and stuff on the cruise line versus in the parks so that was nice.
Boxing Day was canaveral and we had quite a large delivery so that was busy. I rotated into the zone in mickeys that had quacks which is our small stall out on the pool deck and the location of the sculls and scurry make up. So on pirate night I retrained Amy up there and that was fun. New Years Eve was pretty awesome... Some of us finished at 1030 and started at 9 then next day and some finished at 1130 and started at 10am... I was one of the "lucky" ones that finished at 10.30pm so Tyler came round and we, along with Ana, shared some bubbly and watched half of the ABC Christmas Day parade on demand which made me super excited to go back to the parks! Then at about 11.15 we headed to Deck 11 where we watched the entertainment and saw the fireworks which was awesome. Then we went to deck 1 aft which had been decorated out really well by guest services and was a fire and ice theme so one half of the loading bay (because that's what it really is!) was the bar and themed like ice and the other half was the dancefloor themed like fire. It was good but we were tired and had already enjoyed the night really so we just stayed a while and then Tyler and I just chilled out in my cabin until about 2am then called it a night.
New Years Day was somewhat of a struggle!! The whole crew were tired and the guests equally so! I was in sea day quacks for half the day so I went straight to the stockroom at 9am and then restocked the quacks location before staffing that up on the pool deck until 3pm. It was quite fun and I had some good chat with the guests... It was a killer watching all the food coming out of cabanas and Flo's though!! After that I went back to mickeys until midnight... Yes my New Year's Day was a shift from 9am until midnight! Memorable!
The rest of this week has been rediculously easy in comparison. The next day I was on welcome line so that was super easy - I went and saw the golden mickeys in the evening before napping and packing. Yesterday we were off the whole day as it was Friday Nassau so I went to McDonald's then worked in the evening. Today I had to work 8-10am helping the crew shop but then I was done for the day because I am leaving as a "guest" so I can't work for 24 hours before I leave the ship! Ha! I did three trips up and down the ship returning all my costumes, returning my micros card, payed my account off at the crew office and signed the Bahamian book which is some customs thing. I also got my key to the world card so I can debark as a guest. I decided to go and see frozen at 3pm (4th time!) for something to do and when I returned, Ana was freaking out because guest services had been trying to contact me... Turns out they mis-marked me as off the ship so thought I was still on the island! While I went to guest services to sort that out, security phoned my cabin to ask Ana if she had seen me which thankfully she had otherwise I would have delayed the ship leaving as they would have thought I was still there! Oops!
That brings me to now. I am just killing some time before going to see Believe tonight which I'm super excited for as it's the show I have seen least... Only twice. I've pretty much packed everything now. I just have to take my luggage to be inspected by security tomorrow, attend immigration at 5.30am ugh, settle my pay check at crew office, get a manager to check off my cabin and finally say goodbye to everyone.
So excited!!
