The Scottish

So far, this current cruise is absolutely amazing. Not only are our audiences full and dancing around during the shows, but the cruise has SO MANY Scottish families! And the Scottish know how to live it up. Add some Austrailians in the mix and this cruise just became a party boat. Every night after the shows we go up to the Panorama Lounge (becomes the disco floor) and dance our butts off! If I don't master a Scottish accent by the end of this cruise...something is terribly wrong.

what we do before our Abba show...(we rock out to Thrift Shop)

So during this cruise there was a Scottish mother who I'm pretty sure wanted to marry me off to her 21 year old son. I'm not gonna lie, duel citizenship in Scotland would be pretty amazing, but alas I am in love with someone else...who doesn't make me feel like I'm a 24 year old cougar. haha. 

She was so cute and felt like she wanted to "take care of me" and make sure I was comfortable all the time. Adorable. Anyways, she invited me to stay with them in Scotland. If I find someone to travel with, this just might be a sweet and free place to stay. If she ever e-mails me the pictures she took then I will post them. =)  Until then, here is the entire group of Scottish families.

sorry, it's dark...

Venice

There will be plenty of stories and more photos from Venice, but as of right now, this is all that I have. Cheers!

...Rebecca, Duke and myself decided to spend the day in Venice together walking around and attempting to find the library where Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade was shot. We ended up getting lost for about 3 hours. Later in the evening we, the entire cast, wanted to meet up for dinner. A couple of months ago a very sweet Austrailian couple became so close to us and loved our work. At the end of their stay the two of them gave us $300 (Austrailian dollars) so we could go out as a cast for dinner. It was a kind gesture that we really wanted to make sure we took advanage. 

Long story short, the meeting place in Venice became a wild goose chase trying to find Gabe and Reid, but when we finally were able to get everyone together we got the cast time together we rarely get to have when not in rehearsal. Thanks Moira and Bob!

making music at a restaurant

walking through Venice

we finally found the library!

We had different points of location in order to not miss Gabe. He was by another bridge...

We found everyone! CAST dinner!

performance photos

Sometimes during these cruises we, the "Artisits of Silversea", tend to get close to the guests. This particular family decided to immediately make friends with us and photograph almost all of our performances.

Broadway: A Peek Behind the Curtain

"I Dreamed a Dream"

Broadway: A Peek Behind the Curtain

"People Will Say We're in Love"

Broadway: A Peek Behind the Curtain

my audition

Broadway: A Peek Behind the Curtain

"I Get a Kick Out of You"

Broadway: A Peek Behind the Curtain

Bows...we ended with a Les Mis mini-show

Decades

"9 to 5"

Decades

"9 to 5"

Decades

"I Got You Babe"

Decades

"Poker Face"

Gabe's Cabaret

"You're the One that I Want"

Gabe's Caberet

"You're the One that I Want"

Gabe's Cabaret

"You're the One that I Want"

The Artists and The Family

Ladies and Max

High C's

"Con te Partiro"

High C's

"Con te Partiro"

High C's

"The Prayer"

High C's

I'm not sure which song this is...

High C's

"Libiamo"...I look frightening

Secret Base

When we cruised through the Black Sea we had ports in Bulgaria, Romania, and the Ukraine. Here is a short video of pictures from a tour I went on in the Ukraine. It was a secret submarine base. I know what you're thinking, and yes, it was pretty freakin awesome!

Pompei

I'm not sure how many times I asked "where are all of the dead people?" during this excursion, but when we finally found some...I was almost satisfied. I've never felt so morbid, but all I really wanted to see were preserved people from Pompei and I soon found out they were all taken to a museum. Oh well, it was still a very neat experience walking through this ancient city that once existed and thrived.

plaster was inserted in the cavaties where the volcanic ash preseved the form of the bodies after they had decomposed.

bathroom in Ancient Pompei...

city of Pompei

a preserved person trying to cover their mouth from the volcanic ash

touring it up in Pompei...look at us being awesome escorts from Silver Sea

Pisa

I can take as many pictures as possible of the leaning tower, but no picture can capture how incredibly ignorant the architect was to build such a beautiful tower on such a poor foundation. (aka it's really really leaning) And it's B E A utiful. It's still difficult for me to believe I was there.

Pizza in Pisa!

arabesque!

The Leaning Tower

Carrying the heavy load

three-way high five!

an EPIC four-way high five!

aaaahhhhhhhh!

Tours Galore

So this past cruise I made it my mission to escort as many tours as I possibly could. I signed up for one every day of this 10 day cruise. I went on 4, which was enough for me. It was exhausting. First was Ancient Olympia, Olympia Stadium, and the Archaeological Museum and Olympia Village. 

Ancient Olympia is located in the middle of a fertile valley near the Alphios and Kladhios rivers, the site was a sanctuary even before the Olympic Stadium was built, and the games took place in the sacred area known as ‘Altis’. The area’s most imposing monument was the outstanding Temple of Zeus. It housed the god-and-ivory statue of Zeus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. (from Description of tour)

The Olympia Stadium was one of my favorite parts of the tour. The tour guide asked our entire group if anyone wanted to run the track. The winner would get a crown of olive leaves. Being on the Silver Spirit, not too many people are spritely and young, so of course like the ridiculous person I am, I said I would run the track. I’m pretty sure I made a lot of elderly peoples day because when I was running back everyone was cheering and taking photos. Hilarious. I’m happy I did it though because how many people can say they ran on the track where the Olympics were first started? I can.

I'm not sure why this one is loading sideways...

where the training occurred

I recieved olive leaves for finishing my run

Our last part of the tour was to go to the Museum. The statues were incredible. It is beyond me how such intricacy was done without the tools we have today.

Nike

pretty much statues of raping and pilaging

Hercules fighting a bull

The second tour I did was a Jeep Excursion through Corfu.  I might have fallen asleep a couple of times...but the sights were amazing.

a delicious snack

 how is the view this amazing?

cyprus trees =)

There is not much else to tell about that excursion other than Corfu makes almost all of its money on tourists.

The third tour was a kayaking excursion in Montenegro! Needless to say, it was a great arm workout.

Lastly, I went on a Wine and Olive Oil Tasting tour in Civitavecchi that was not actually in Civitavecchi, but in Etruscan. It took about a good hour to get there, so I might have put my shades on and pretended to look out the window as I took a cat nap.

the olive oil factory

Etruscan

passing by windmills as we take our journey

how olive oil used to be produced

the olive oil farm we visited

So pretty much I had an awesome/very tiring cruise. Yay!