Three Posts in One - Photos to Come Later

The Day we got on the Ship

We got to Miami around 1pm, got our luggage together and headed off for the ship. We were told that getting onto the ship might be very difficult and time consuming. It was really the exact opposite for us - we got on right away and got assigned to our rooms. On the other hand, it took Matt and Beth four hours to get registered on the ship since they weren't on the "list."

When we boarded the ship, there were no other passengers aboard. So it was just crew and there wouldn't be any passengers until the next day. So we kind of had the ship to ourselves. We got to walk around and see all of the sights, restaurants and bars by ourselves. It was very cool.

We went to bed fairly early in preparation for our first rehearsal and show on Wednesday night. We got up to rehearse in the Spinnaker Lounge. This is where we perform our improv shows. {I'll post a picture of the Stardust Theater later - it is beautiful.}

The ship is really luxurious and covered stem to stern in wild colors. In the Crystal atrium, kind of like a main lobby, everything is teal, raspberry, purple and dark blue. The furniture ranges from formal little chairs to huge divans to ottomans to little nautilus chairs.

In the Spinnaker Lounge, they had huge chaise lounges, weird round white chairs and more nautilus chairs and tables.

~Jen

We set sail to Nowhere...

We did our first show two nights ago. It was a scriptless (aka improv) show and we were performing for shore side employees. They were a great house and the show went very well. We had to perform with handheld mics which was kind of strange but we made it work.

Last night we did our first "nowhere" cruise. Basically, the ship loads up the passengers and then we cruise about 155 miles from the port, sit around a bit and then cruise back. It was fine. The best part was that all of the restaurants and bars were finally open so food was plentiful. Yay!

Tonight is the special Rosie fundraiser cruise. There will be her show in the Stardust and we'll be performing two scriptless shows in the Spinnaker lounge.

She dropped an F Bomb!

Last night was the fundraiser for the "All Kids Foundation." Rosie was the host. She did two shows in the Stardust theater and we played in Spinnaker. We got to catch a bit of Rosie's. Show - it was a Broadway revue with her telling stories in between the songs. She was very funny and told some great stories. She must have dropped like 20 F bomb's while I was watching and the audience loved it. I guest right after I left the auction started - one of the items went for as much as $50,000 buck. She raised a bunch of money for her foundation. Yay!

Our shows went okay. The crowds were a bit hard to deal with - a little drunk, a little unsure what they're getting into and we got into our heads. We still had some fun and many people said they enjoyed the show.


After our second show, we went to the late night buffet at The Great Outdoors. I'm not sure we'll do that again since it was mostly fried foods. It was delicious but uh,...kind of horrible for me. After that we went to the Bliss Lounge. Bliss is the wildest bar on the ship. It has two two lane bowling alleys, a dance floor, some chairs and several beds. Yes, I said beds. Really big beds. Everything from a four poster bed to just a platform bed. Last night in the middle of the "party" happening in the lounge, a woman was asleep/passed out on one of the beds. Larrance thought she was a pillow and grabbed her head. She barely noticed. After one drink, I went to bed.

Today we're on the Stardust stage rehearsing our showcase show. We perform the show tomorrow afternoon as a part of the inaugural events that are taking place on the ship tonight and tomorrow. Monday we have our first real cruise to Mexico!

I think that catches this up...I'll post more later.

~Jen