Well, the contract is progressing… I am about 6 weeks in now
which means about a quarter of the way through. Apologies for not having
updated this blog more but to be honest, I go round in circles twice a week to
the same places so nothing much out of the ordinary happens!
We have started the DCL Games which is basically the Dream’s
Olympics. Each department makes teams to enter into the events… we are entering
in dodgeball, football, trivia, scavenger hunt, weight lifting and volleyball as
well as anything else I don’t know about! I am only actually taking part in
trivia… as we know, physical sport isn’t my thing! We went to watch the
volleyball at Castaway Cay on the crew beach yesterday which was hilarious…
merchandise got slammed by entertainment so it was a pretty quick game! It was
cloudy in the morning but the sun finally came out in the afternoon and I was
finally a morning shift yesterday so it was the first time I’d got to the crew
beach since being back. We chilled out in a hammock for a while after the
volleyball and Nick carried on playing some friendly games. The weather is
really variable at the moment – last week it rained at Castaway then the sun
came out after 3 hours and burnt me so much I could barely stay at work!
Luckily the sunburn has faded now so that’s good.
We had a late night Nassau last Monday which was good. Nick
and I were proper guests for the evening because we first went to see Villains,
then ‘So you think you know your family’ in Evolution, then we had dinner at
Royal Palace then we watched The Dreamers performing in the Atrium before going
to see ‘Match your Mate’ in Evolution at the end of the evening. It was a
really nice evening. I got to have the Grand Marnier soufflé that I had at
Royal Court on the Fantasy and it was just as good as I remembered!
I’ve been avoiding getting off the ship very much so I can
save money. I just sent home $1000 so that’s a good start but the rest of my wages
I’m going to keep in dollars I think.
Nick 1 came to visit me on Sunday with
his friend Breckan who used to work on the Dream too, she was in YA. We got
lunch at Chilis and then they took me to Walmart which was awesome. Other than
that and a couple of trips to McDonalds in Nassau I haven’t really been off the
ship that much since my last post. We have a new thing called In Port Manning
where a certain amount of people have to stay onboard on port days so it kinda
limits you anyway – my days are alternate Mondays and Thursdays. Tomorrow is an
IPM day for me but I got scheduled Welcome Line so that’s all good… then on
Friday I get to lie in again… and then Saturday I have a Donald scheduled for
my Castaway shift so no working on the island for me! This three day cruise
should be lovely!!
I can’t remember if I mentioned it already but I am in yet
another location now – the art gallery on board. This has been a great opportunity
to learn new things about a different kind of merchandise as well as HOW to
sell things. It can get a little quiet at times but today’s sea day has been
rather busy! Talking of which I had better get back to it…
