It's Show Time!

Donna enjoys a beautiful evening on the Promanade Deck

May 2-3

Two Days at Sea

We have enjoyed two days at sea. We were presented two shows that we wrote and produced on the history of the great ocean liners. The first one, on Thursday, took us up to 1930 and emphasized the history of the immigrant experience and also WWI. The Friday show continued with the saga of the ocean liners from 1930-1960 including the important war effort of these ocean liners.

The show lounge was filled with guests during our shows and from the comments that we received after each show, the audiences seems to enjoy our shows very much. We found that we have a ‘following’ of guests who have attended each of our shows. Many of the guests that boarded this week in San Diego mentioned that they wish that they could have been able to view our earlier shows. 

The guests with scheduling conflicts have watched the presentations on their stateroom TVs at their leisure. We haven’t been able to walk anywhere on the ship with out someone stopping to talk about their own family experiences on these ships and to tell us just how much they have appreciated having us on board. Our heads are growing daily with the compliments we are receiving. This has to be the largest amount of comments that we have ever received on our shows on any previous cruise. The compliments are definitely our “pay”. We love presenting our nautical series of shows for the hundreds of guests on board..

our venue, Showroom at Sea on the Statendam

After our morning show on Thursday, we went up to the Crow’s Nest which is a wonderfully positioned bar on deck 12 in the bow of the ship. Since this is an older ship, this area has not been filled with verandah staterooms  or a gym as is the case with the newer ships looking for revenue everywhere. While we were looking out the windows in this observation bar, we were lucky enough to see a variety of whales nearby. Many of them broached and all of them entertained us. There was a blue whale, a fin whale and humpback varieties all spotted. It was exciting to see these whales so close to our ship.

On Thursday, we went to a wonderful headliners show with all the band playing and two of the four singers showing their fabulous skills in operatic styles. This ship has the smallest entertainment crew that we have ever experienced with only two dancers, four singers and five musicians so they are busy everyday in the bars and on stage and they do a fabulous job each time we see them in various venues around the ship.

Friday found us off the northern CA coast with the first rough seas of the cruise. It was windy and choppy all day so we had difficulty walking our two miles on the promenade deck so we had to resort to walking the inside decks. Tomorrow is supposed to be calmer and this will be appreciated by the other guests and by me (Donna) as I had trouble standing on the stage to deliver our show and felt a little sea sick when we went up to the highest lounge, the Crow’s Nest.

Tomorrow we arrive in Victoria for the evening and some of the guests living on Vancouver Island will disembark. The rest of us will have the evening to enjoy this lovely city.