Our challenging life at sea continues! We have been occupying our time, when not eating or drinking, with the following:
High tea accompanied by the harpist.
Countless games of trivia, which people still get way too wound up about. The DJ, Marcio, does some of the games and being from Brazil he has us all answering the wrong questions because of his accent. The games turn into let's help Marcio learn English--which then erupts into an argument about how to pronounce "aluminum". On alternate days we have Sarah Lou from the north of England who has everyone repeating "blud" for "what substance was used as blood in the bath scene in psycho" (the answer is chocolate syrup--the movie was in black & white). We are reminded that we are playing for bookmarks--and Celebrity bookmarks at that!
Fritz has tried his hand at the one hole golf course.
Some of the lectures are good. Nigel Marven, who does animal shows for Discovery has been doing a series on his exploits. He has done segments on snakes, a talk about the segments he did for Shark Week, and today he did a talk on going to Antarctica to film penguins--awwww! Here we are getting a latte.
The other good lecturer is a guy who spent 44 years with the Los Angeles County DA's office. He has done: Marilyn Monroe, OJ Simpson, the Menendez brothers and today's is on Charles Manson. He has had access to all of the files and actually knows many of the characters involved. He was Lance Ito's boss before he became the judge on the OJ Simpson case and said that he came to work once dressed as a kamikaze pilot.
Oh, let's not forget the fruit and vegetable carving.
The highlight however was yesterday's crew tug of war games which are taken as seriously as the Olympic games. Teams from: the Galley, Housekeeping, the Bridge (cheaters), the Bar staff, Security, Guest Relations, the Entertainment staff, and the Deck Crew all competed, in their work clothes, under a blazing sun. Here's Eric, the cruise director trying to get some semblance of order.
Here Guest Relations was shown no mercy by the Bridge team.
The Entertainment team scores their first ever win over housekeeping. Each team had weighed in team members with combined weights of up to 500 kilos, so the number of team members varied.
Here the Galley staff loses an early round to the ultimate victors, the Deck Crew--who got water bottles! Yes, as Eric points out, Azamara spares no expense to bring you quality entertainment!
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High tea accompanied by the harpist.
Countless games of trivia, which people still get way too wound up about. The DJ, Marcio, does some of the games and being from Brazil he has us all answering the wrong questions because of his accent. The games turn into let's help Marcio learn English--which then erupts into an argument about how to pronounce "aluminum". On alternate days we have Sarah Lou from the north of England who has everyone repeating "blud" for "what substance was used as blood in the bath scene in psycho" (the answer is chocolate syrup--the movie was in black & white). We are reminded that we are playing for bookmarks--and Celebrity bookmarks at that!
Fritz has tried his hand at the one hole golf course.
Some of the lectures are good. Nigel Marven, who does animal shows for Discovery has been doing a series on his exploits. He has done segments on snakes, a talk about the segments he did for Shark Week, and today he did a talk on going to Antarctica to film penguins--awwww! Here we are getting a latte.
The other good lecturer is a guy who spent 44 years with the Los Angeles County DA's office. He has done: Marilyn Monroe, OJ Simpson, the Menendez brothers and today's is on Charles Manson. He has had access to all of the files and actually knows many of the characters involved. He was Lance Ito's boss before he became the judge on the OJ Simpson case and said that he came to work once dressed as a kamikaze pilot.
Oh, let's not forget the fruit and vegetable carving.
The highlight however was yesterday's crew tug of war games which are taken as seriously as the Olympic games. Teams from: the Galley, Housekeeping, the Bridge (cheaters), the Bar staff, Security, Guest Relations, the Entertainment staff, and the Deck Crew all competed, in their work clothes, under a blazing sun. Here's Eric, the cruise director trying to get some semblance of order.
Here Guest Relations was shown no mercy by the Bridge team.
The Entertainment team scores their first ever win over housekeeping. Each team had weighed in team members with combined weights of up to 500 kilos, so the number of team members varied.
Here the Galley staff loses an early round to the ultimate victors, the Deck Crew--who got water bottles! Yes, as Eric points out, Azamara spares no expense to bring you quality entertainment!
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