Monday, September 18, 2006

Oh the joy of the North

Well I am not more than halfway to North America, Europe is behind us. I have crossed the Atlantic two times before, but this is the first North crossing. The weather has caused a few issues. We started off the cruise by having a guest singer get sick, and had to move our comedian up by a day. Then we had to cancel the second show of a guest singer, due to sea sickness. We luckily got a "spare" guest singer onboard, just in case the weather was too bad to not do our production show. So yesterday we rehearsed that show, just in case, then rehearsed our production show. The weather was on our side, so showtime went as planned. This has made today a pain in the butt. We start off with a matine of the "spare" singer. Then normal showtimes, then the showtime for the show we canceled the other day. So that means 4 showtimes today. yuck.

Canada tomorrow, sea day, Canada, sea day, BOSTON!!!!! I can't wait to be back in the States.

Sunday, September 03, 2006

Last Europe Cruise

Well I am halfway through my last Baltic cruise before we head over to Boston for the fall foliage cruises. I can't wait. Yesterday we were in Copenhagen, Denmark. We had a visit from a few of the execs at Martin. I toured them around the ship, and they gave us a few goodies. The really liked what we do, and I enjoyed giving them some suggestions on how they could improve a few things, to make the tech's life a lot easier. We also had a Tech come over from England to fix our log fog system, interesting fella. He also looked at a few lights with me. I can't wait till I get my parts order so I can finally have my rig up to 100%.

Sitting here waiting for band setup, board as hell. I have been watching the new flyers, learn how to do their thing. I have a lot of floor lights to setup for tonight's show, and almost no time to program the changes that the Entertainer wants for tonight, plus the few special things I am adding, that he doesn't know about yet.