In Betweens – At Sea – [03/09/2014]

I sweholdingmagicsmar we have more sea days on this cruise than ever before. Over 70 of them!  Which is great for the passengers but can get slightly wearing for us…sea day are a heckuva lot more work than ports! Especially since we’re lucky enough to have such good ports on this run that the ship turns into a ghost town (I swear I had about a dozen patrons during our overnight in Singapore!)

Sometimes I think I spend so much time around the ocean that it’s a wonder I don’t just sprout scales and be finished with it!

At any rate; as of March 1st we are officially half way through the world cruise – and April is now barreling towards us full force. Five more days and we’ll be halfway through March! No one is quite sure where the time has gone, especially since the beginning of this season was not the smoothest of voyages.

Thankfully, things seem to have righted themselves and I’ve taken a few big steps away from the edge of that big dark spiky pit I was teetering on the edge of (and who am I kidding, we were all on the edge of it, not just me!) and while there are still – and always will be – some “problem children”, some people who you just can’t please, the overall atmosphere onboard really has drastically swung up since Manila.

One more sea day and then we’ll be in Thailand, where I will once again be attempting to complete “Shaughnessy’s great and amazing Elephant Riding Adventure”- which, as you may or may not recall – was shut down by the eeeeevil Phuket taxi mafia last season. There are a few of us signed up who were there last year, and I suspect I’m not the only one who’s a little nervous! I’ll believe it’s actually going through when I get out of the port…but none the less I have faith.

I also have a near empty library, something that has become quite common for the early evening, and which is truly a relief since the day is usually so busy.

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