Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!! We had Thanksgiving a couple of nights ago on the ship. The food was as to be expected not great, they had a really hard time with running out of food. But either way I went into it knowing that it wasn’t going to be like how my mom and aunt Vicki make it!!! It was really funny because this year is the first year I think in my life that I haven’t had some sort of left of turkey. When you think of all the things that people make out of left over turkey it is kind of funny!!!
Well last night we had our final sunset at sea, which is where from like 5 to 6 a lot of people come out by the pool and watch the sunset. And you can have a beer or some wine if you want. It was kind of sad because we are getting to the point in the voyage that everything that we do is for the last time. Anyhow we had a great time. They were also throwing a party for the sea that won the Olympics with some chips and salsa, dim som, and a cake so we were able to get something to eat. Because that’s what we need around here…..breakfast, lunch, dinner, midnight snack, and a smack bar open for several hours out of the day. The surprising thing is that I have actually lost around ten pounds or so, enough that I have to go in a notch on my belt.
This email is going to be kind of random because I thought of a few things that I didn’t want to leave out from the past. Starting with the hole laundry issue. Because of water conservation and the fact that we were in port so often from India until Hong Kong there was a limited amount of water that could be brought on from the sea because the ship was going through several rivers to get us into ports such as Myanmar and Vietnam etc. And even in Myanmar they cut off the water and it was only on from 6 till 8 I believe so no bathroom or shower unless it was between those hours. Also back to the laundry because of this we were not able to have our laundry done for more than a month. When it is a laundry day they put bags in our room to put it in the night before and you are suppose to have it in the hall early the next morning. Well because of the whole water conservation thing they weren’t doing laundry for us so I ended up getting really good at doing laundry in my room. It would be soo funny you would come into this nice suite and there would be clothes draped all over the place. But I couldn’t do shirts because they would be so wrinkly that you couldn’t even wear them. Luckily enough I brought a whole bunch of shirts.
The next cool thing was something that I saw when I was coming from the Sheraton the last night in Hong Kong. We were walking next to the Peninsula Hotels (probably one of the nicest hotel chains in the world) anyway I was surprised to see one of those double decker busses with the top level open aired (like you see on that one movie with Jackie Chan) anyways it was this white bus and the first thing I notice is at the very front of the bus on the top level is a three piece string band playing. Then there were probably about three or four round table with people eating and having drinks. Then I look down and notice that the are chefs on the bottom level cooking. And then by the time I get to the back of the bus where people would get on board there was a little guy standing there in all white with one of those funny little hats and white gloves. Anways it was one of those buses where you drive around the city and have dinner. Something that you see commercials for usually like for credit card companies where they play the really peaceful music and you don’t really think that it actually happens. Well it does at the Peninsula in Hong Kong. I am definitely going to come back to that city, and when I do I am doing that. Sorry I just thought that, that was soo cool.
What else. Well the past four nights we have been putting our clocks forward one hour to catch up with the time zone changes. Well anyways I went to bed last night at a decent hour and ended up waking up from 1 am till 4am. I couldn’t sleep it was like I had jet lag, but on a ship. I guess it is called ship lag. I couldn’t believe it I talked to a few people and some like my RD said that she didn’t sleep at all last night because of it.
Well tonight is our Ambassadors ball, which is a lot like prom. They are going to do a several course meal and wine and a champagne toast and formal photos with the captain. It will be a lot of fun, then there is a dance in the union after that. Well I better go. Oh yeah one more thing we are going to get into Hawaii a night early. Originally we were only suppose to be there for the day, but we are going to get in the night before at like 5pm and they said not to plan anything before 8pm. So that will a lot of fun getting to be off the ship for that long.