Good Morning from Sunny Florida!
So, the ship arrived in style this morning, no music as they promised but they had some boats shooting water, helicopters taking pictures and a plane with Welcome Silver Spirit and now my reward is to stand in line and wait for my I-95, which is like gold. If you lose that, you can kiss your chance to breathe the smog of Fort Lauderdale!
The guests are getting off today, end of cruise, thank goodness, of course I will miss some guests but I am sure I will see them down the road as the people that cruise Silversea are very loyal to the company, the average age of our passengers would be 65, very wealthy, well educated, not sure what happens to them when they come onboard because I think their common sense flies out the window.
So, today will be a day of fun, boat drill to make sure the ship is safe, we will put on our lifejackets and wait to be interrogated by the coastguard, then perhaps the USPH will come, the Public Health, which lets everyone know that we have passed the standards that I am sure that are the same in every Mc Donalds in the US, HA,HA!
I finish at 4 and maybe I will be allowed to get off the ship, we will be staying in Florida for two nights and three days, the crew will spend all their earnings as there are Best Buys, Wal-Marts, etc. We have several ntionalities working onboard, most of the crew are Phillipinos and they only go outside to call their families, or sing karaoke at the nearest Phillipino restaurant, you next have the chinese who work in the laundry and here for a year, don't know how they do it, hands down they are the winners onboard.....next we have the indonesians, similar to the phillipinos, and the Indians who mostly work as butlers onboard, and finally you have the rest of us who are now wondering what the hell we got ourselves into..... The compnay was predominantly European when I first started with them 7 years ago, but as all things change in life, that is how it is, and probably one of the major reasons why I still work here, I have some lifelong friends here, there are probably about 5 I can say are true friends, it is easy to find super-ficial here, but that is with real-life also, so wish me luck today, it will be a day full of surprises I am sure!
