I am the queen of losing stuff: My engagement ring, my phone and now this week it’s my camera. The great news is that the phone and ring found their way back to me so maybe I’m more just the queen of temporarily losing things. This past Monday after a fantastic day of whale watching, [...]
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Last week Mike had a visitor on board whom none of us had met beforehand but turned out to be like a warm snuggie on a cold winter’s eve. Simply put, he was just great. On Tuesday of last week, Piero, Rance, Mike, Danny and I rented a car to visit the Volcano National Park. [...]
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The 2nd Officer on board this ship is multi-talented and sometimes (by choice) works backstage at our show. It’s so great, I mean here’s a guy who is basically fourth in command of the entire ship and during his limited downtime he offers to come work our show when the tech crew is short handed, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Celebrating on the Anniversary
So December 16th is said to be the actual anniversary of Second City, this year they celebrated their 50th anniversary. And so, in honor of this milestone our cruise director helped us to celebrate by changing our show night to the 16th and bringing out a cake and saying some kind words about us after [...]
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We’re in Hilo today and we woke up to another beautiful day. It’s finally just now clouding over and threatening rain which seems more typical for this port at least by all accounts from crew. Speaking of which, we’re doing a crew show tonight which should be a hoot. There’s not a lot of entertainment [...]
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We played tennis again in Kauai. Mike, Piero, Rance and I made the trek up to the tennis courts, slapped down our $10 court fee (which we found out we didn’t even need to pay since the court we were given was not locked), grabbed a loaner racket for Piero and hit the clay. It [...]
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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 [...]
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For the past week, I’ve been enjoying an early morning three mile walk. Most days I wake up without the need of an alarm. I’m sure I’ve helped by the recent clock adjustment. The weather has been perfect. Cool, crisp air, blue skies, no wind; truly beautiful. I think I wanted to just soak in [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Rehearsal Begins
We began the rehearsal process in earnest today. And seriously we could not be more fortunate. It’s a seasoned cast, with a seasoned director, and an RO that’s filled with sure-fire hits. We started the process by watching a DVD of the current cast’s show on the Pride of America. Which was great, because we [...]
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Our first meeting with the cast went off without a hitch. It’s a really fun group, going on a really great itinerary. We were also told by our producer that the confidentiality of our arrangement needs to be reinforced, which basically means they don’t want us bad mouthing the now unnamed theater or the unnamed [...]
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