Hello all…the big day is finally arrived (although I'm posting this a couple of days late)!! After an eventful
week, today is the day that I desert the Great White North and trek to sunny
Miami for my yearly Monsters of Rock Cruise and the assorted debauchery that
surrounds the third annual excursion.
Earlier this week the cruisers received some excellent news
that had every single one of us (that’s right….all 3500 and I know this because
of the Facebook barrages) in an absolute frenzy! Day one of the shipboard schedule was issued
and everyone got to work sharing it around and planning the first day of events after boarding. I was elated to see just how much stuff was
packed into the first day (probably should have expected as much I suppose), but at the same time was devastated…….there would be no time for the “EH” Team
photo (a photo with as many Canadians on the ship as we could find) that I had been plotting!
I had hoped to do it after the
life jacket drill for several reasons. I
knew that there was no way that we would get absolutely everyone in on it
(there are well over 60 of us now), but I figured that this time frame would be
our best shot before we lose people to disembarking in ports, sleeping in,
viewing concerts or events or plain and simple drunken forgetfulness. Every passenger must participate in the life
jacket drill by law or face a fine, but it basically just seems like a huge photo opportunity as everyone
looks silly wearing the bright orange vests (in a bout of mild uneasiness I did wear
mine around a little on the first day of the 2012 cruise that seems so long
ago now). As the MSC cruise line has
their photographers on hand to snap that ridiculous shot of you and your
friends that is of course available for purchase from the on
board photo shop
during the voyage at a severely inflated cost…..yes I do buy mine, they’re a
bit of fun! My original plan was to
snake one of the photographers for our event at the drill and that way there
would be a nice glossy 8x10 available.
Certainly better than trying to track down the camera that snapped the
shot and hoping that that cruiser had a steady finger. Alas it wasn't to be with the tightly packed
schedule including major performances starting by 4pm! A window between 5 and 5:45 is likely
earmarked for said life jacket fiasco so that’s out and the Killer DWaRfS have
a meet & greet at 3pm….so let’s aim for 2pm…..I doubt that I’ll even be on
the ship by then, have to play it by ear!
Last year I attempted to post a daily diary of my adventures
and it took up so much of my time as it was, but with so much happening so fast
I fell further and further behind and the final couple of days came out weeks
after I had been back in Canada. Don’t
worry, I’ll still be presenting those daily accounts of the debauchery aboard
ship but I won’t start until I return so that I can spend more time enjoying
the experience of The Monsters of Rock Cruise.
As much as possible I will try to post some photos to the Facebook page
as we go and tell my tales when I return. The ole liver is nervous but ready, bon voyage!
The Meister ("LIKE" The Meister on Facebook)
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