Just a Southern Girl Traveling the Big Blue World: It's Another Day! It's Just Another Day on the Rhapsody of the Seas

Hey y'all!

I got a request this week to tell y'all about what a typical day/ cruise looks like.

We're in our ten and eleven day cruises right now. We will switch to seven after our crossover to the Caribbean. This was the schedule for last cruise:

Day 1: Venice, Italy

Day 2: Sea Day

Day 3: Corfu, Greece

Day 4: Sea Day

Day 5: Santorini, Greece (My favorite port we go to)

Day 6: Athens, Greece

Day 7: Mykonos, Greece

Day 8: Sea Day

Day 9: Kotor, Montenegro

Day 10: Zadar, Croatia

Then back to Venice

Day 1, we always do a boat drill. This is to make sure that our guests feel safe and know what to do in case of an emergency. We are the Muster Station Leaders. That means that we are in charge of all of the guests at our stations. We make sure that we give all of the information that they need and answer any questions that they have. I'm Muster Station 9 (the best one ;))

The days we're at port, we get to get off and explore. I love getting off with my cast and making memories in countries and cities I never thought I'd visit. We'll be sitting at lunch somewhere and someone will say, "Guys... This is so surreal. We get to perform and travel all over the world". It's pretty humbling.

On Sea Days, we do things like laundry, gym time, go over music and dances, and catch up on sleep.

On show days, we have tech runs and notes at 9:15am. We share the stage with other Guests Artists, so we do tech runs to make sure that all of our set pieces, lifts, and cues work. It also gives us a chance to refresh ourselves with the show. Then we have a break from end of tech run till call, which is 18:00 (6:00pm). Our show times are 7:00 and 9:00. We have the hour before showtime to fix hair, makeup, preset costumes and wigs, and just be together.

We perform our main shows three nights of the cruise, one per night. We also have sets that we do, in what we call, The Centrum. It's the center of the ship. Jake (B1) and I have a set called, Summer Breeze". Tim (B2) and Chelsea (G2) have a set for 70's night. That night is a blast! That's when Tim and Chealse start the party with their set, a Cruise Staff Member will come out and teach disco moves, and then the entire Cruise Staff team comes out dressed up and it's a dance party! We also opened up our Baroque and Jazz Set this cruise!

At night, you can usually find us Back Deck. That's where we celebrate everything! Different Independence Days for different countries, birthdays, having a great day... everything haha! This is also where we get to see our friends that work in other departments! Rhapsody is a smaller ship and you get to make some pretty awesome relationships with those you pass on the I-95.