Emma's Birthday

The other week I was invited to Emma's 17th birthday party. Her and her family have lived on the ship for quite a while now. I became close to her when I was here last year. She is such a fun girl! Her family is from England, but she is actually thinking about doing nursing school in Texas next year...:)

Well, when you have been living on a ship for years you kinda have to start getting creative with birthdays. This year Emma had a custome party/video scavanger hung. Emma gave each person an invitation and a person/job on the ship they had to dress up as and act like throughout the evening. It was quite fun...i had to come as an officer, there were some who had to dress up as a nurse, baker, academy (school on the ship) kid, housekeeping, hairdresser, engineer, surgeon, etc. We thensplit into teams and each team given a video camera. We had an hour to go around the ship and do the tasks that were on our sheet. Each one was worth different points. Then we had to have our team videotaped while doing it. The team with the most points at the end one. Some of the things we had to do included:

-forming a pyrimid in by the cafe and singing a song from Sound of Music

-having a team mate shower with their clothes on

-knock on the door of a family cabin and sing a Christmas carol

-have a team member run through the midships lounge (where everyone hangs out) singing and acting out I Believe I Can Fly

-drinking from the sludge bucket (where everyone dumps their unused liquids after meals)

-the group doing the Macarena

-borrowing money to get a coke then having someone drink it in one swig and burp the alphabet

It was great fun needless to say. I will try to add some pictures:)