Category Archives: Grand Cruises

Reassurances – At Sea – [03/10/2014]

In the spirit of keeping everyone in the loop I want to honestly apologize for the vast amount of space in between updates this season. I know I ‘talked’ a lot during my summer contract and by contrast I must … Continue reading

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Here For Your Entertainment! – Singapore – [03/08/2014]

I wasn’t going to go. I mean I really wasn’t. I didn’t have the money (what’s left of my cash for the month is supposed to be going towards my Elephant Ride in Thailand) and I’m enough out of the … Continue reading

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Cookies N’ Cream – At Sea – [03/06/2014]

It’s odd sometimes, the things you miss even when everything is going really well. For me? I miss baking. I mean I really miss it. I find myself going into book stores and looking at baking cookbooks trying to figure … Continue reading

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A Wish Your Heart Makes – Hong Kong – [03/03/2014]

Every year I say I’m not going, every season I say that if I overuse it, it’ll stop working, somehow being special and maybe one day I’ll ‘grow up’ enough that walking through those gates won’t bring tears to my … Continue reading

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Higher Still and Higher – Manila, Philippines – [03/01/2014]

I will give you that sail away parties are normally anything but a party. They normally involve a few people milling around the deck with a glass of wine, a few free appetizers and one or two sets by the … Continue reading

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We Are Family – Manila, Philippines – [02/28/2014]

This morning a most unexpected noise pulled me out of what was otherwise a completely sound sleep: a child’s laugh. Bleary eyed and blinking, I checked my clock, realized I had slept long enough any way, and smiled somewhat. There’s … Continue reading

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Truce – Yap Island, Micronesia – [02/24/2014]

You would not think from looking at Yap Island that it had ever been anything other than what it is – a quiet, tropical place in the middle of pretty much nowhere. A little speck on the map that is … Continue reading

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At Last I See The Light – At Sea – [02/23/2014]

There have been a lot of times this season that I’ve thought I saw light at the end of the tunnel and it’s turned out to be the 7:35 express train hurtling towards me, leaving me pressed up against the … Continue reading

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Part of That World – Cairns, Australia – [02/17/2014]

We got no troubles life is the bubbles Under the sea! My very first contract on the flagship we stopped in Cairns (in the rain, a lot of rain) and in the course of my souvenir shopping I came across … Continue reading

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Come and Find Me – Sydney, Australia – [02/11/2014]

There comes a time when you just can’t take any more falling down walls, or people muttering heaven knows what to you in Polish, there comes a point where you just have to GET OUT ~ Under the Tuscan Sun … Continue reading

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