sea day

Dec 20, 2013: Sea day
It was a typical long sea day, extremely busy with the kids.
We had Tamarind for dinner tonight, so the four of us got to dress up in our formals and have a nice dinner before work. It was Ethan and Christine’s first time there, so that make it fun. I got to explain the menu and all that. It was nice getting to relax and hang out as a group since we really haven’t had a whole lot of chance to that this cruise.

As we were getting ready for dinner, Christine found out that we had to participate in the concert on Christmas as part of the international choir, rehearsal was at 11pm. It wasn’t really a good start to that. Ethan and I went to the show right after work, and decided just to stay in formals for the rehearsal thinking it wouldn’t take too long, then we could meet Natalie after she finished work and all go to the Northern Lights. That didn’t happen. The rehearsal didn’t really ‘start’ until 11:15. And the first hour of it really was just the cruise director explaining the order of what was going on, twice, arguing with one of the choirs about who was in charge of them, and us all wondering why they hadn’t got anything organized before we all got there.

They finally got the rehearsal started around 12:30. First the Filipino choir had to perform, and no one knew which of the songs were tracked, or where the tracks were, or what number the tracks were, so that took another 15 minutes (I ended up going to get my laundry out of the dryer and to change into something more comfortable while that was going on). Finally we found out what songs we were singing, went up, had a horrible but quick run-through of the three songs, and we were all ready to go, but then we were told to stay because of the final group number. Luckily, t Indonesian choir had their stuff organized so their section went by quickly. They went through four different plans for the ‘candle’light Silent Night closing song before we finally settled on one and actually practiced it. Once we got to the doors of the theatre, we all kept walking like they told us, but straight to bed. It was an exhausting night and I was happy for it to be over finally at 1:30. Such a long night after a sea day.