The cast getting ready to board.
We made it! We landed in Honolulu after a nine hour flight from Chicago. Here’s the deal with airlines, at least United, even with a nine hour flight they don’t serve any free food. Not even a bag of nuts or stale pretzels. If you want to eat anything on that long flight you best buy it in the airport, bring it from home or have your debit card ready, ’cause they don’t take cash. I bought some nuts and had an early morning breakfast to tie me over. Rance succumbed and had a turkey sandwich with quite possibly the saddest looking piece of lettuce I’ve ever seen. It was the “Love Story’ of lettuce.
All of our luggage managed to come on the same flight with all of us so that was something worth celebrating. We made it to the ship and current cast members, Jeff, Jeannie and Brett met us at the port authority and helped us get on board. It was so great seeing those guys, they looked tan an healthy. And didn’t have the usual “Get me off this ship,” look that a lot of people have after eight months.
The next day was spent in a ship training room learning all about first aid: CPR, bandaging, assisting a choking victim, etc. It was actually all very interesting and now I don’t feel the need to run away so quickly from a scene of a medical emergency. I at least know enough to yell out, “Call 911!”
- The instructor uses me to show what to do if someone’s choking. Let the bit fest begin.
We were in Maui yesterday and had a day off. And by day off I mean we got to get off the ship and walk to a mall, get mailboxes setup, get internet sticks and see a movie. Spoiler alert: “Men Who Stare at Goats” is a good movie to nap too. You won’t miss anything.
Also Rance and sat in as guests on “Aphasia Presents Something” a twice weekly podcasts that our friends Jeff, Jeannie and Brett have been doing on the ship. It was real fun to be a part of it even though a good portion of the podcast was dedicated to the discussion of Farmville. Get a listen by going to itunes and downloading episode 54.
We’re in Hilo today, and I’d write more, but truthfully I’m exhausted. We’ve got another day off from our training tomorrow which will be dedicated to studying our fire safety manual.