dunya wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 5:37 am
How do you deal with motion sickness?
Have you ever sent a family member an awkwardly worded autocorrected text?
What's the last thing you binged on Netflix?
Where is the most exciting place a cruise has taken you? Have you ever had a scary cruise experience (like bad weather scary)
> How do you deal with motion sickness?
Luckily, I don’t get motion sick. My wife, who was also on the cruise with me, isn’t usually so lucky. You get used to the rocking after being on for so long, but we definitely have our moments during storms that I have felt slightly queasy. They give free Dramamine for everyone, and we see lots of guests with those little dots put behind their ears. Seems to work. Night time rocking is great for sleep. Also, if you’re ever seasick, head towards the very middle of the ship- it’s usually the least rocky.
> Have you ever sent a family member an awkwardly worded autocorrected text?
Yeah, last year I texted my mom “happy bitch dad”
Though it doesn’t happen IRL as often as it does on here, I think because I tend to type fast and don’t proofread as often
> What's the last thing you binged on Netflix?
Need to look through my history, hold on.
Oh, ‘Pieces of Her’. We like Toni Collette. The premise was nice, and I liked the first half, but I didn’t like the rest of it. I can’t put my finger on it, but it was meh.
2nd season of Upload on Prime was pretty good tho. Had some questionable plot decisions but great humor in the writing
> Where is the most exciting place a cruise has taken you?
Most exciting is what you make of it- the appeal, to me, of the destinations is how far you can get from the port itself. There’s always cruise line-sponsored excursions that are fun if you’ve never, like, snorkeled or been in a dune buggy or just want a guided tour of the nearby town, but my wife and I are much more adventurous.
A few years ago, St Maarten was a stop- we left the port with all the touristy shops and such, and took a taxi to the other side of the island (it’s one big island). Got off at this little resort nestled between some mountains. Beautiful. Did a zip line tour with just my wife and a guide, who handed us self-application gear, some beat up gloves, told us how to brake, and peaced out. Super unsafe! But no waiting for slow people, we could zoom zoom all the way to the tree on each line. Got some bad burns accidentally brushing my hand, but it’s all good. Ended with a hike around the ridge, and booked it back to the ship to perform that night!
Another one- Cabo. Went on a camel ride, then went bungie jumping into a canyon.
Another one- St. Lucia. Took a 2 hour bus ride to a pointy craggy mountain, one of the hardest hikes of my life. The back 1/4 was just climbing ropes up vertical faces. Beautiful views, totally worth it.
Man I could go on.
> Have you ever had a scary cruise experience (like bad weather scary)
We’ve had, just last contract, cruises where we had 12-14 foot waves licking the 4th deck. Thing is, as a crew member, we’re never worried. And unless you’re on, say, the Costa Concordia out of Italy (look it up), cruise ships are extremely safe.
But performing during those swells? Kill me. When you have guests come up to you around the ship later on saying ‘I don’t know how you could balance or dance during that storm last night’ my response is something like ‘YEAH ME NEITHER’.
This one time I was getting off a lift in the stage that started to come back up to stage level from 10 feet down, and the swinging was so violent that it pushed the side of the steel base structure and created a large mountain. Broke a few things. Don’t worry, we had ushers doing trivia or some shit to the horrified audience for about 45 minutes while the techs fixed it. Then we somehow restarted the show.