WOOOOOOOOOOOWWWZERSs it's been awhile!!
we've gone too long here. so what's happened? well, for the month of october, we switched gears and headed to new england and canada. we visited halifax, nova scotia; st. john's, new brunswick; bar harbor, maine; and boston, massachusetts. it was lovely, but the HIGHLIGHT was the first week when my dear friends emily kent, john flanagan, brandon stansell, and nathan mahy came on for a whole cruise with me!!! we had a positively INCREDIBLE time. they even sang 'what a wonderful world' a capella in the guest talent show and brought the house down! yeah!
after that, canada got really cold and the ocean got RIDICULOUSLY rocky. to the point where we had to postpone our shows because you couldn't even stand still on that stage, and half the band was sea-sick. there was more than one occasion where just lying still on my bed in my room was a challenge! we had 18-20ft swells in the water, and the waves crashed on us so violently that they shut down the royal fireworks lounge (completely panoramic windows) b/c they've had those windows break and flood the lounge. don't worry, my room is DIRECTLY BELOW that lounge!! whoopee! luckily, no such event occurred. needless to say, we were glad to be out of those waters this week!!
the other MAIN EVENT of october was our self-produced HALLOWEEN SHOW!!!!! yeah!!!!!! our bandmaster, andy, arranged all the instrumental accompaniment for our 7-piece band. april (our dance captain) and mark (the scot) choreographed and directed everything. i arranged a few of the vocals for the songs that needed ensemble or background vocals. taryn found some costumes in our big old locker we could use. it was a blast! our set was in four sections: broadway (phantom of the opera-phantom, think of me-phantom, masquerade-phantom, defying gravity-wicked); standards (witchcraft, that old black magic, bewitched bothered and bewildered, old devil moon, i put a spell on you-hocus pocus); film/tv/comic (the addams family theme, ghostbusters, theme from psycho, oogie boogie's song-nightmare before christmas, theme from the munsters, a break into a zombie version of riverdance, and the monster mash) and a pop section (keep your monster on a leash-tower of power, black magic woman-santana, zombie-the cranberries, thriller-michael jackson). we all danced, and we all sang! our makeup was incredible. how i WISH i could upload pictures on this ship! argh! hahahah.
but NOW we are on the 14-day repositioning cruise to the CARIBBEAN!! we left philadelphia for the last time yesterday, and we will return to charleston, sc on the 15th. the new cast will join us then and rehearse during our last week performing, and then take over on the 22nd when we leave!
tuesday we'll be in nassau, bahamas, and friday and saturday we'll be in aruba! next week we hit st thomas, dominican republic, and great stirrup cay. hooray!!
so all that to say, i'll be done in 19 days. be prepared for lots of pictures when i get some internet!! love you all!!
