Some contracts go slowly, some go quickly and some…oddly enough…do both. This has been one of those, the individual days go by like we’re wading through a quagmire, but the weeks zip by in a blink.
Soon, it will be onward to new horizons for us, well, not exactly new, but at least different. As of the end of this cruise we’ll start heading south, leaving the East Coast steadily in our wake and heading over to Europe and the Med for the rest of the season. Europe will be the end of the line for me as I’ll head home for Christmas once the ship makes port in Florida in December, but the rest of the team will be heading to the fun, sun and sand of the Caribbean season.
As usual this time of year I’m working two ships at once. This one, the ship I’m actually on, I’ve done pretty much everything I can do to prep for the Crossing: book club is organized, quiz schedules are printed and sent in, even my hours are set up ready to be winged down to the front office (I swear, if the FO had its way they’d just put a tracking bracelet on my ankle 
). In addition to that though, the Grand is wrapping up on the flagship, which means that Spartan and I – even though head office doesn’t have us working together this season (possibly more on that later) – are working together long distance to get the dear old girl ready for the upcoming GWV in January. The more we get done now? the less I have to do on my hols.
But we still have a lot ahead of us before that, including that one final southbound East Coast run before the 7 long looming days of the Crossing. And of course, a few little cities along the way, including one that you may or may not have heard of called New York…