Cruise Day 2: Sea Day

The second day we were at sea. We kept busy by trying to go to every event that served free drinks. (Blake and his pension for free food and drinks has worn off on me. Well maybe it is part grad school too. Either way, free stuff makes us happy.) Somehow we ended up on the returning Norwegian cruisers list, which had an event that served free drinks and appetizers. (Well, you get all the free food you want on the cruise, so that wasn’t a biggie, but drinks are rather spendy.) During this event, we met 2 couples from Florida who were about our age, Ami and Carl, and Amy and Mike. Here we are, being the cool, returning cruise members that we so obviously are:
After that event, we went to an art auction (free champagne, duh). We bid on a lot (ha! yeah right) but mostly stayed for the raffle we had entered. For the record, I never win anything. One time my mom and I were at a craft fair and we entered a raffle and we were talking about how we never win, and this cute old lady running the raffle was like- oh you never know! Well, we ended up winning a ridiculous pink pillow with a cat on it. I still think the lady rigged it because she felt bad for us. Anyways, back to the art raffle. They had some Rembrandt and Picasso sketches that were worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Well, one of the contests was to guess the price of the Picasso. Well I came closest! I thought I had won the Picasso itself (Worth around $69,000), but instead we got to pick a painting out of a set of five. And pay $45 for shipping. There is always a catch. Then they started the raffle and Blake and I both won! I got a mini-facial at the spa where the girl gave me a list of “essential” products that would have cost me over $400! I’m 26! How bad can my face be?! (Don’t answer that!) But Blake won us a bottle of champagne which didn’t judge us and made us feel good about out faces. Amy and Mike admitted that they would have hated us for winning had they not just met us a half hour before that. Later that week we met an older couple from Tacoma who also remembered us as the hot-shots from the auction! We really should have gambled after that or bought a lottery ticket or something. Oh well.

That night we went to dinner with Amy and Mike and we all wanted to check out the show that night. (For those of you who haven’t been on a cruise, they always have some sort of entertainment show every night.) We went to the Dancing around the world, or something like that, which somehow managed to offend every person in the audience. Some countries were just bad and confusing, but the American one was quite comical. I tried capturing some of it on video so you could see how bad it is for yourself: