A Maritime Christmas and A Briney New Year

Well, christmas is wafting through the salty air everybody. About a month ago I helped hang giant christmasy, ropey decorations from the top of the banister down several floors. By helped I mean uselessly stood around because they had about 30 people doing the job of 5 people. Also, giant shiny balls that were not securely attached to the christmas rope were raining down upon very fortunately absent heads of guests. Aaaanyway now the promenade is all sparkly and complete with a gigantic christmas tree right in the middle.

This week, the horn section of the orchestra got our little books of christmas music that is easy enough to walk around and sight read. So, we all put on our santa hats (Doug wears the whole santa outfit, because he can fill it out) and we wander through guest areas spraying people with musical christmas cheer. A guest was nice enough to take a picture of us on Doug's phone the other day while we were caroling and it should be up on faceook by now.

This is my first totally snow-free winter. I kind of miss the snow, but mostly I just miss not being meltingly hot all the time. Tengo Calor! Si, mi Espanol es mui bien. Mucho Gracias.
This Saturday my family is coming on the ship for a cruise and to visit me. Hooray!