APRIL FOOL’S

The day started with Cruise Director Kimberly’s announcement that we would soon be arriving in Helsinki with frigid temperatures.  She may have spoken a few words in Pig Latin but I wasn’t sure.

Here is the first page of the Daily Program.  You can download a copy HERE

Everyday at Noon the Captain comes over the PA and gives a nautical update.  Today, Kimberly and the Captain switched roles, with Kimberly announcing she was the Captain and giving a comprehensive nautical brief.  The Captain followed announcing that he was the Cruise Director and provided only a brief summary of the events for the rest of the day.

I spoke with the Captain later and he said that Kimberly did a better job as Captain than he did as Cruise Director.  He smiled and noted that Kimberly did write out a complete briefing for him to read, but he couldn’t get past the first paragraph.

Dinner in the MDR had a special entrée – A Full English Breakfast – Download the complete menu HERE

JELLICLE DINNER

The Pinnacle was sold out this evening for the $69 per plate Jellicle Dinner which is held every World Cruise on April 1st.

NOTE: Jellicle is a fictional word made up by Poet T.S. Elliot in a series of poetry about cats that was later adapted into the Musical “Cats”

About 20% of the guests wore costumes in preparation for the April Fools Day party in the Rolling Stone Lounge later in the evening.

The wait staff were all wearing officers uniforms complete with shoulder board rank insignia.

Cellar Master, Jacques Torres, was the master of ceremonies.

The menu was billed as “Breakfast” with each course given a breakfast name.  However each dish was actually a dinner item creatively named and with outstanding presentation.  Everything tasted great and even though the dinner lasted 3 hours – it didn’t feel slow and we had a wonderful time.

APRIL FOOL’S DAY COSTUME PARTY

After dinner we headed to the Rolling Stone Lounge where the party was in full swing.  The lounge was packed and the dance floor was full.  There were probably 30-50 people wearing costumes.

We arrived in time to participate in the costume party, which was really a dance contest.  Everyone who entered had to dance to 16 bars of Beyonce’s “Crazy in Love”,  We aren’t very good dancers and we weren’t in contention.  The judges declared a tie among 3 teams – one of which was a crewmember team where one of the women did the splits to finish their number – no one could top that.

We stayed for a few more minutes before heading to the World Stage to catch the last 30 minutes of Comedian Jim David’s show.