Backstage tours

Like many ships & cruise lines, a certain amount of behind the scenes glimpses are offered. Sometimes these are free, sometimes available for a fee. Those that are free (at least on the larger ships) are normally associated with various loyalty levels.
The only one I noted on the Celebrity offering list was this particular BackStage Tour being offered today. It is a Sea Day sandwiched between yesterday’s trip through the Canal and tomorrow in Costa Rica.
So there I was, with a lot of other people standing outside the Theater at 1445. It took a while for everyone to get checked in (cabin numbers, not names), and be seated with a few women apparently having missed the clear instructions about close toed shoes…
Following a Q&A session we were all invited on to the stage to look around and see how the stage was actually laid out and marked. Their plan to tour us through the dressing, cleaning, and costume rack area was a dismal failure. Too many people in too small an area resulting in no one really being able to see much of anything.
Otherwise my day was exactly what you might expect including coffee and stitching on a couple of projects.

About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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