Silver Shimmers – At Sea – [01/13/2014]

why-do-men-like-a-chase-300During one of the formal nights on my summer ship I looked down at one of the silver slippers I was just about to put on, and my roomie had to ask me why I was laughing. I held up the shoe and pointed to a tiny black top-hat stuck to the inside.

Where did that come from?

Probably the last Black and Silver Ball on the flagship

I think that top hat is still there. And now there’s probably more than one. The top hat is of course the result of the fanci-fetti that we still sprinkle all over the floor for the grand balls here. I wasn’t certain we’d be doing it this season – since the concept was the brainchild of our previous CD who has since moved on to bigger and better things – but when I closed up the office and made my way down to the ballroom I was greeted with the traditional sight of glitter everywhere, including in all the elevators and on every stair tread leading to and from the ballroom. Deposited by the hems of ladies’ dresses and the soles of wingtip shoes (not that anyone on board is actually wearing wingtips, but it makes for a fun visual.)

The ball itself went off without a hitch. Due to various scheduling requirements I wasn’t involved in decorating this time (which I’m sure I will make up for on the next one), so I was given the chance to get the full impact of the room’s transformation; which is quite something really, every so often I forget just how good the team is at stuff like this. Even though there’s been so many drastic changes in the team this year we still work the same.

This was the first season I didn’t wear a proper full length ballgown to the first ball of the season; although I had one hanging on the back of the door ready to go it just wasn’t a full-length kind of evening. So I wore my magic off the shoulder dress instead; which proved to be the right choice as it turned out and meant I didn’t have to change for my requisite turn around the after party (hard to believe there was a time when I didn’t know the electric slide 😉 ).

You’ve probably gathered that this hasn’t been the easiest contract so far, and some of you know the reasons behind that (they’re really out of my control and there’s hope that they’ll reach some kind of resolution soon), but I will say that a few Cinderella hours helped a little bit..

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