Hurricane Sandy

This has been an interesting week to say the least. Our 7 day cruise with 3 stops turned into 1 port day and 6 sea days, which let me tell you, we do not like sea days. Especially when we have extra ones and have to come up with extra activities to do. However, it was really awesome to see our staff work together and try to make it an awesome trip for the guests regardless of the situation. I think most of our guests enjoyed themselves. They were very understanding that Mother Nature can hit at any time and it's not our fault and that we were doing everything we could to come up with different activities to do to make their trip fun.

So we heard Monday that there was a tropical storm brewing, and didn't honk anything of it. Then Tuesday the captain notified us that our itinerary would change because of the storm. Instead of going to Half Moon Cay we would have a sea day Thursday, and instead of Freeport on Friday we would go to Port Canaveral. Well, then sandy turned into SANDY and Florida was cancelled. So we had Wednesday in Grand Turk (a windy/cloudy day) and 6. Freaking. Sea. Days. On top of this, our Halloween party that had been scheduled for Wednesday night was cancelled, and I have a bladder infection on top of all of this and feel horrible!

It was pretty scary on the sea Thursday and Friday. My darling roommate said to me Thursday night before bed "maybe we should sleep with our lifejackets tonight. It's pretty bad out". For those of you who know me, I tend to have an active imagination so, naturally, I didn't sleep that night. Every time we hit a wave I thought to myself "this is it, we're going to tip over"! Luckily we didn't. I was FREAKED out. I felt sick a few days this week. It was so rocky that it was hard to walk, even to just stand up sometimes!

So the latest: we are going to arrive in Baltimore tonight and the guests are getting off tonight which was AWESOME news to hear after the discovery of this infection. I will get to go to bed before midnight tonight! Now-- what happens next I have absolutely NO idea. I've heard many rumors. I am pretty sure that we are getting these guests off and then heading back to sea with no guests. Sandy is hitting Baltimore tomorrow and it's unsafe for us to be there so we are planning to head out to sea and just float/anchor out of the way of the storm (which apparently is safer?).The other rumor is that they've already rebooked everyone that was supposed to come next week. So I think we have at least 2 days without guests on board, possibly a week. Which is freaking awesome! We could have our Halloween party, and everyone would have access to all parts of the ship. I'm guessing we'd go back to Baltimore and dock there once the storm passed on Tuesday or Wednesday, but again I have no idea.

No one really has any idea what's going on. I'll update as soon as I can. Check back later for Part 2!