What a trip so far!!!

Well let me tell ya…Lots of stuff going on here.  As you know we were told our drummer couldnt make it.  He got sick with some weird flew half way to Italy, and with all the ship regulations these days, they probably wouldnt have let him on anyway.  so…stressed out was the word for the day.  Here we are in Rome having to connect with our agent through the internet using Skipe. But…there were no adaptors to plug our computers in because the electricity is on a different voltage.  So we used up my computer battery and Tony’s to correspond, otherwise it would’ve costed us a small fortune to be using the phone’s as you can well imagine.

Anyways, we got to the ship and still didnt know what on God’s green earth we were going to do without a drummer.  And speaking of God, looks like He already had it all planned out.  When we got on the ship we were informed that there was a guy who was a waiter and also guess what….you guessed, a drummer!! How cool is that.  His name is Angga and He’s from Indonisia and plays in bands back home.  So we have Angga the waiter/drummer helping us out till we get a permanent drummer next Thursday!!

And what else,  well we couldnt respond any earlier because the ship is a very tricky, procedural environment.  We first of all needed to get “processed” as they call it.  We needed to get pictures, for our “Sea Pass”. For you non-cruisers, a sea pass allows you to buy things on the ship.  It allows us also to use the internet.  So we didnt get it till today.  But “ships ahoy!!”  I have been taking lots of absolutely scrumptious pictures, which I will be uploading.  and some pics are of my room and how “HUGE” it is. LOL. So for all of you who wish you could be here you may change your mind when you see my room – not too much bigger than my foyer! No really!

Anywho! We are safe and sound and everyday we have safety training to attend -yawn!! But it must be done and it’s two full weeks of it, even though we are only here form 6 weeks.  I will be soon posing some great pics so check it out and I still have some pics from back home as I was saying goodby to Christine, Jackie etc.. that I coulnt download till soon.

Okeedokee. Talk soon and thanks everyone for your hellos.

Vivian