The day was unremarkable (although it never ceases to fascinate me how we seem to do nothing, and yet we run out of time to do all the things we intended to do), but that night was a the Captain’s Cocktail Party. Oh-err.
So we glammed up and showed up with our invitation to meet Captain Nick and 200 of his closest friends:
It the end it turned out to be one part cocktail party and two parts sales pitch. We had a spiel from the Future Cruise Consultant (amazing savings if we book onboard, blah-blah-blah), then Capt Nick did a few gags and tried to put a positive spin on the fact we’ll be berthing at Darling Harbour instead of Circular Quay (we’ll be the largest ship ever to sail under the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Oh-err.)
Still, we got three free drinks out of them, so not a complete waste. Oh, we also got our photo taken with Cap'n Nick himself. Feel free to swoon with envy.
Afterwards we joined some of our shipboard friends to attend our first production show, “Piano Man”, a series of numbers based on the work of various piano entertainers: Billy Joel, Liberace, Neil Sedaka, Elton John and Barry Manilow. It was actually quite a fun little show, although I only survived the Barry Manilow segment by jamming a pen into my leg to take my mind off the songs.
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