Questions & Christmas Cards

So I've been pretty quiet on here for a while because honestly everything is getting really repetitive. Not a whole lot of new things happening. Same thing pretty much day after day, just new guests.

However, if you guys can think of any questions that you want me to answer about ship life, feel free  send me a message on Facebook or whatever you'd like and I'll try and answer them for you and make a post with all the answers!

And we all know Christmas is quickly approaching and Christmas cards would not be turned away ;) So if you'd like to send me a Christmas card that address again is:


Jodi Samler 454120
Entertainment
Carnival PRIDE
C/O Intercruises Shoreside & Port Services
10435 Resiterstown Road - BLDG 3
Owings Mills,
MD 21117

Looking forward to hearing from you guys!

Love <3

#shiplifeproblems

Ship life is amazing - do not get me wrong on this entry. But I've compiled a list of #shiplifeproblems that I think other crew members and cruisers a like will find a little funny.

when you want to take a nap and the room steward is cleaning your room (also a #firstworldproblem)

when they don't have chocolate milk in the mess

no real bbq sauce on board

getting dripped on every 10 ft as you walk down the i-95

getting in the elevator and stopping at every floor from deck a to 10

when the water tight door to crew bar is closed and you have to go the long way

port manning - nuff said

when people you have grown to like/love sign off

hearing 85% of the guests say 'where the food at?' 

hurricanes

when you're in remote area where the satellite doesn't give you the channels USA and TBS

having a roommate who turns on all the lights (not anymore but before)

the internet/no phone usage

not understanding half the things that people say to you because english is not their first language

hearing someone from my group of guests saying 'eh' immediately after i tell them i'm from canada

crew immigration

debarkation

sunburns (okay so this one is my fault but the sun is so strong in the damn islands :P)

wearing the same clothes over and over again/having a closet way too small for your clothes

I will probably add to this list every once in a while so stay tuned.

Sandy, you crazy b*tch!

i haven't updated in what feels like forever because it probably has been forever. i'm slowly weening myself off the internet so i don't spend so much money on it all the time. as most of you could see from my Facebook status' and pictures from the past week and a half, we survived hurricane sandy - did you ever have any doubt? captain gallotto is one of the best, if not THE best and he would never put us in any danger. 

basically last week we ended up loading guests on on the sunday at 11:30am, we had to kick them off at 2:30pm because the coast guard had closed the port and there was to be no one going in and out of the bay. we had to go float out in the bay/ocean for the next few days. the most we got was the really high winds and the rain but all was good. it didn't even get rocky at all. while we were in that, there was plenty for the staff to do: as in stuff to keep us occupied so we didn't go totally crazy. we played just dance, we played ping pong, had movie days, watched the band play, had parties like the halloween party which was amazing! hope you checked out the pictures on my Facebook - there were some pretty fun costumes! i think by the end of it we were all pretty much partied out. we stayed anchored in one spot for most of the time but then eventually traveled back to baltimore to pick up the passengers for our 2 day cruise to nowhere - or as most of us called it, the 2 day cruise of hell. most people were there to party, because well why wouldn't you. it's 2 days of drinking and gambling and shows on a boat. you can't go anywhere so theres nothing else to do but eat, drink and gamble basically. 

something that was also great about last week: NO ROOMMATE! place to myself for pretty much an entire week! it was heaven. however, on friday when we docked in baltimore to pick up the guests for our cruise to nowhere, i had a roommate move in. her name is dragon and she's a housekeeping operator. i don't know much about her besides those 2 facts. i was talking to my mum about this the other day - i get some people with not so normal names in my cabin: dragon, sunshine and ant. its a very interesting cabin. maybe i'm the weird one? who knows. the new social host sam came on yesterday and she seems really great so far. guess what that means? I'M NOT THE NEWBIE ANYMORE! i mean theres still lots that i haven't actually done and i always get tips and tricks from everybody but I'm not considered the newbie which is always good. she's not new to ships just to the social host aspect. she used to be the port shopping expert on another ship with carnival. 

today i called my first bingo in about 2 and a half weeks so it was still a little nerve wrecking - i hadn't done it since before gumbie left. BUT even kirk, the cruise director, the top dog, the big kahuna, said i did a good job. phew! a load off my mind good gosh! 

oh and by the way TODAY i finally got my birthday cards for those of you sent one, except for the one from you mum, don't know what happened there. I got one from Auntie Sandra, Poppa and the amazing Laura so thank you very much to you guys. it was very much appreciated and definitely made me tear up. another birthday card that i got today was actually from a past guest named Reagan. she came on with her family about a month and a half ago. she's only 10. but she gave her grandparents a birthday card to give to me with a sweet message and a picture of the 2 of us! the sweetest thing EVER!

another thing that makes me tear up on a weekly basis actually is our welcome aboard show. our cruise director finds the couple that was the most recently married (usually ends up being the day before or even the day of the cruise) and the longest married couple. when he finds the longest married couple i can't help but think of my nanna and poppa whom i miss very much. last night there was actually a lady in the audience who was almost identical to my nanna and i wanted to go and give her a great big hug - but i thought she might have found that a little strange so i resisted. 

anyway, this entry is getting ridiculously long but i hope you enjoyed it none the less even though it was all over the place. sitting in grand turk doing a quick update and then off to the ocean in grand turk for the last time!