Last night I went to the Captain's Reception, a formal event where guests can have their picture taken with the captain, get FREE drinks (this is a popular event), watch some entertainment and meet the first officers. As this was a formal event, I had to wear a tuxedo. The event began at 1900 and as of 1700 I didn't yet have one. Val pulled some strings with someone in HR and I was able to get one from the uniform shop in time for the event. I only had to get the jacket, shirt and bow tie because I'm just going to use my pants and shoes. After we shot enough footage of the event we went up to the broadcast room and edited the segment for the Cruise in Review DVD until around 2330.
Today is a sea day and the Captain made the decision to go to Barbados tomorrow so hopefully the weather will hold out. The seas have been rocky on and off but as I write this things are relatively calm. The cruise director has asked us (the broadcast techs) to display weather maps on one of the TV channels so guests can understand why we have been altering our course, so at least I'm always aware of the latest and greatest weather developments!
This morning I had, you guessed it, more training! This training was about protecting the marine environment and telling us everything RCI does to ensure safe disposal or discharge of all waste products and chemicals. It was actually pretty interesting to learn how they process all the grey and black water for discharge into the ocean. They also discharge the leftover food after it's been processed. Coming from Ithaca I am very experienced in separating my garbage into 4,000 different categories, so I'm sure I won't have any problem abiding by their policies. We also learned about different chemical reactions and proper sterilization techniques. Disease outbreak is taken very seriously and there are so many different places around the crew areas to wash your hands.
This afternoon we shot the International Men's Belly Flop Competition in the deck 11 pool. Luckily the weather held out so we were able to hold the competition. After that we shot some footage on the sports deck before it started raining. From there we went to the Vortex club to shoot this thing called "Gotta Dance" which apparently is this hip hop dance started by the Nicks cheerleaders who then sold the dance routine and music to RC. Today they taught people the dance and then tomorrow at 2000 in the Centrum (midship area that is an open area 10 decks high) they suddenly turn on the music and the passengers start doing this routine they learned similar to a flash mob. Should be interesting.
This evening we shot a short video with the cruise director explaining and highlighting some day 5 activities. Later after dinner they held this rock and roll event with a dance contest in the Centrum. It was pretty crowded and all the guests seemed to have a great time.
After the rock and roll event was over we dumped it into the Avid and then I went back to my cabin to change for a crew party starting at midnight. The event was called Crew Quest, which is a spin off of a game that is played with the (adult) guests in the Safari Lounge. Basically it's a team scavenger hunt where the host asks for different items or actions. Once the team finds the item or performs the action for the host they get a certain number of points depending on the order that they completed the "quest." I joined the Activities Staff team as I had met one of them at lunch earlier that day and they invited me to be on their team. The crew version of this game was, as you can imagine, a tad bit more intense. It started out with things such as "two different colored shoe laces" or "currency not in the form of USD" and towards the end was essentially things like "two guys each wearing a bra on their hands and knees barking like a dog" and a girl wearing men's clothing so I'll let imagine what happened as the night wore on… It was all really fun and my team won!! In fact we crushed everyone by 26 points!
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