I guess the holiday season started at Thanksgiving, but with all the tropical weather, lack of autumn leaves and copious visits to the Hawaiian Islands, we haven’t really been getting in the holiday spirit. Thanksgiving was celebrated by moving our formal night one day earlier, to correspond with the holiday. Other than that, I think turkey was served. Probably. Somewhere.
Fortunately, Christmas and New Years fall in the same two-week cruise, so we have only one chaotic cruise with plenty of strange requests.
Christmas involved making a Christmas variety show out of whatever we could find onboard. The cruise director booked the guest entertainers from around the ship (a comic, our show band, the street entertainment from the piazza, the production dancers) and we decorated with stolen Christmas trees and garlands. A quick, stressful tech later, with automation, video, special effects and specific requests, we had a show. It was performed twice on Christmas Day, and then we never saw or spoke of it again.
The Islands proved a nice break between Christmas and New Years. It was a calm few days of trying to forget about the ship.
Then the returning sea days hit, and with them, New Years. This was a time for special requests throughout the ship, like live video feeds into every cabin, balloon drops and midnight count-downs on the open deck… All in all, it was a pretty normal day for me, since I’m in charge of lighting in the theater. We did our normal show, then no more lighting in the theater was required.
We had our fleet-wide Christmas photo competition, and are still waiting for the results. We’re pretty proud of our entry.
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