Blue Ribbon Win

To me, one of the great experiences of cruising is living on the ship. It is a luxuriously contained world and everyone is pretty much there for the same reasons, mostly to ensure a good time. An advantage to a very long cruise is that you establish very good friends with which to have a very good time. This also goes for the staff and crew. They go out of their way to make us happy and we get to be friends with them, too.

To amuse us on a sunny day at sea, the crew hosted a good old-fashioned Country Fair on the pool deck, where each department had a gaming booth related to their duties. Housekeeping cheered on a pillow-case-stuffing competition, the culinary staff challenged us to identify exotic spices by their scent, the bartenders hosted a blindfolded spirit tasting, a knot tying match from the deck crew, ping pong throw with the entertainment team, egg-carrying contest by the waitstaff, blindfolded face-painting at the spa booth. All in such good fun, and everybody wins.