Oct 8

So I thought I would share that I am converting to Judaism. Not really….but I am surrounded by Jewish people. My roommate, the triplets, three other friends, and a good % of people on this ship are JEWISH! The girls signed me up for their Jewish dinner tonight and I was their honorary Jew. It was much too funny. We didn’t have a traditional Jewish dish to celebrate Yom Kippur, but the ship has a “special” dining service which we took advantage of. The girls went to service and then joined us. The dinner service started at 6:45pm (sunset was around 5:30) but we just were going by California time so according to Jewel the sun hadn’t set yet. My roommate Lauren is also planning to throw me a Baa mitzvah and apparently Jewel hasn’t had hers either so we decided to celebrate together. Its more of a running joke with all of us with me becoming a Jew but I am the lone Catholic in the group. Not much I can do. Lol

 

Tonight was also the opening ceremony for the Sea Olympics. Also the Seas dressed up in their color, brought their flags, made up a chant and mascot. All the Seas are Aegean, Arabian, Adriatic, Bering, Baltic, Caribbean, Red, Yellow, and Mediterranean. I am on the Red Sea, so our color was Red (obviously) we were Neptune’s Electric Squid. Our signature move was using our hands to insinuate squid’s tentacles. Hilarious. Bob and I were Captains so we led our cheer and dressed up this huge kid on our team as some squid man king guy. I dunno. A lot of people were very creative with their colors. For being on a boat people were very inventive. Aegean was the pink panthers, Arabian was all black and dressed someone up as Aladdin,, Adriatic were all white and were the Explorers, Bering was green and were the Ninja Turtles, Baltic was blue and were whales, Caribbean was orange and Rufio (from Hook) was their mascot, Yellow Sea was the yellow submarine/bananas, and Mediterranean was tie dye. IT WAS COMPLETE MAYHEM. Much crazier than we ever expected it to be. Everyone was screaming their cheers and it was almost impossible for us to even start. I was in charge of music and all the lights of the whole production. Turned out to be a great show and definitely set the mode for the main day’s events! Can’t wait! SQUID! SQUID! SQUID!