Cozumel

January 16, 2014: Cozumel
I got to sleep in today, well a little bit; I did go to breakfast around 9:30, which would be extremely early for all the musicians (anything before 11:30 is ‘extremely early’ to them). After breakfast, I had to cover for Meghna while she attended raft drill and Christine went to an entertainment department meeting about the Blues charter next week. After that, I was free though, but I ended up staying in Club HAL and having lunch with Meghna. Meghna and I got off with Alex and most of the cast around 1 to celebrate one of their birthdays, but Meghna left us soon after we arrived at the restaurant to meet up with the party planner somewhere else. It was a fun lunch though, got to spend some more time with the cast before they leave in 10 days. It was getting very chilly, so once we all paid most of us went back to the ship to get warm clothing before going back out to “no name bar,” which is the place apparently most crew go when in Cozumel. It’s actually a really cool place, it’s a hole-in-the-wall door leading through the building into a nice outdoor area. There’s a pool, lots of tables, a sandy area with beach chairs and more tables, and of course since it’s “by crew, for crew,” they have free wifi.

I didn’t spend a lot of time there, mainly went just to hang out and see what it was like. I had to work at 7, so gave myself enough time to walk back and change and get some tea before work, Alex came back with me to give himself enough time to eat dinner and work at 8 (I had 2.5 bowls of chips and a few quesadillas at lunch, so I wasn’t hungry at all for dinner).

Work was hard work tonight, pirate night. Usually there’s a lot more kids, and activities take a lot longer with more kids, so everything seemed to get done really quickly tonight. Thankfully, Christine helped me out on doing the treasure hunt around the ship (I was not about to take this group of kids - even though there’s only 5 of them - out and about around the ship by myself). So it didn’t end up too badly, just a bit exhausting.

After work, I changed and went to the Queen’s Lounge to listen to the HALCats. The old solo guitarist (now on as a guest) was there and we hung out and supported the band (not many people were out around the ship tonight, I guess most had a long tiring day in Cozumel and went to bed after the DWTS fashion show – which I couldn’t go to because it was in the middle of work :( ). Once they got off, some of them joined us and we hung out in the Northern Lights for a while. It wasn’t very busy and Alex and I weren’t really in the mood to stay in public area, so we went to the OB, which was also not busy but some of the other musicians were there, and we played darts until we realized it was hour forward night (before a sea day, yikes).