Momo on a Boat: 2015

Monday, March 2, 2015

Sky Diving!

Sky diving has always been something on my bucket list. At the beginning on this contract a couple of us were talking about all the fun adventures we wanted to do while we're here and skydiving came up. Time hasn't always been on our side, we've been busy doing extra rehearsals or there were injuries, just so many things getting in the way. We planned to go two weeks ago in Key West, we woke up that morning to an announcement from the captain saying we couldn't port that day do to the weather. So we pushed it back another week. We didn't talk much about it the night before, but that morning I woke up looked out the window and it was beautiful outside. The five of us that were jumping that day left the ship super excited, got a taxi that took us to what seemed to be the middle of no where with just a little shack and a few planes in the middle of a field. I was a little concerned at how legit this place was going to be, but the guys ended up being awesome.

The plane was so tiny only five people could fit snug in there; the pilot, you and a friend and the two tandem guys. The ride up was 20 minutes long and they took you 12,000 feet high. Jessa and and Ish were the first to go, the rest of us waited with one guy that worked there and when it was time for them to land we drove to the field and watch them scream and smile, they loved it!

Up next was me and Jose. I was surprised because I thought I would have felt more nervous or scared, but when I was in the plane it was such a beautiful view I was just enjoying the ride. It wasn't until they opened the door and the wind was blowing in did it really hit me that I was about to jump out the plane. Jose went first and I followed right after. Swinging my legs over the edge was the scariest part. Then before I knew it we fell forward and I was looking up at the plane free falling for about 45 seconds, which felt so quick and slow at the same time it was crazy! The parachute opened and it was beautiful just flying around looking at the Keys.

It was such a high, after I landed I was surprisingly calm and at ease. I had no worries in the world.
It's definitely something I would recommend doing, I would do it again anytime. Later that night we had a show, and it was definitely one of the best "Signed Sealed's" I had done in awhile. Everything was coming so easily, I didn't feel tired.. normally during my quick changes i'm exhausted and out of breath, but I was so calm and everything felt good. The whole experience kind of feels like a dream still, at least until I look at the pictures.

I don't know what my next adventure will be, but I'm looking forward to quite a few more before I head home.

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Dry dock and re blocks

It's been awhile since I last wrote but I figured now would be a good time.

Since I last wrote this cast has gone through so much.

It's funny because I remember being at rehearsals and hearing stories of other casts and the dramas that occurred. We all thought nothing would happen to our cast. But man have we been through it all.

I don't know how many re-blocks we've done at this point.

It started out with one of our singers going home for a bit, so then our dance captain filled in as a singer and we did the shows with three girl dancers.

Then Liz our dance captain got sick and was rushed to the hospital for a week, which was really shocking so then I had to fill in as a singer.

Then Liz came back and did bits of the show. Then our singer came back and we were all together again but still not doing a normal show cause Liz wasn't all the way better yet.

We then had dry dock for ten days in free port, Bahamas. Which is the craziest thing, we were in a shipyard where they lift the ship out of the water and there are a ton of contractors doing maintenance on the ship.

Since we weren't doing any shows or anything like that our duty was firewatch! Which was such a joke but we waited too long to say no about doing it so we had to suck it up and hang out in the spectrum for nine hours a day basically doing nothing. When we were called to work I was sent somewhere were people were welding and I watched with a spray bottle of water and a fire extinguisher... It was so much fun! Ha but no I really liked everything else about dry dock port Lacaya was awesome. The whole cast was hanging out off the ship and it was just what we needed. Also another Royal ship "Freedom" was having dry dock as well so we hung out with their cast which was really fun too!

During dry dock I was at the beach one day and got back on the ship right before I had to start fire watch when I found out one of our boy dancers was going home! It was terrible I ran into his room and everyone was there saying bye to him, I couldn't believe it. Thirty minutes later and he was gone. So now we're down a boy and re blocked another show. Performed the first day back from dry dock and near the end of the show I was walking to an end pose and heard and felt a snap in the back of my ankle. I went to the doctor after the show and he said I had a partial tear in my Achilles' tendon. Wrapped it, gave me some medicine, and told me to rest and ice it. So I did for about three days and it still hurt so he put me in a splint so I couldn't move it and told me to give it another three days and it should be good.

While I couldn't dance the cast had to re-block the shows again without me in them.

Finally on Sunday he took the splint off and it felt fine didn't hurt just kind of felt bruised.

I'm in the show tonight so hopefully there's no problems with it again.

But yeah we basically haven't done the original shows since November.

Our cruise director Carlos is on vacation for two months so we got a new cruise director from Italy. So things are constantly changing for us.

Last night we had movie night in the theatre and watched Interstellar... Well I only got half way through cause it's a long movie!

This upcoming month I plan on going skydiving... So stay tuned!

Coco cay!