BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO

Well, happy new year everyone. I hope the holidays treated you well.

My life has turned a little upside down lately and I'm kind of in a haze. All of which is the result of my own actions and decisions.

ANYWAY...

On the 1st - I was ASLEEP from thoroughly enjoying a very successful New Years Eve event I was in charge of. I was jerked awake by the announcement BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO over the emergency PA system.

For those of you too lazy to look back through my old posts and find out what that means... or to take the 10 seconds to google. BRAVO means fire. A publicly announced BRAVO means really big fire. Hung over (perhaps still half-drunk) me, laid in bed, eyes closed praying that the fire was neither in my corridor nor in any entertainment area so I could stay in bed. (Yes a normal person would be very very worried). I hear Deck 9 aft location announced and could not be happier.

I did not find out until later that the fire was MASSIVE and that both deck 8 and deck 9 guest staterooms had to be evacuated. The underside of one of the Jacuzzis on deck 10 had caught fire, causing the entire pool system to catch fire. There was burning plastic everywhere and both decks were full of fumes and gas. It was actually a huge deal and 2 crew members got injured fighting the fire.

Luckily, I was able to sleep like a princess since it was a "safe" distance away... How safe can any distance be when you are still trapped on a ship?

The onboard marketing manager, Natasha, was one of the officers evacuating the staterooms. One guest turned to her and noted, "I cannot possibly go in a lifeboat because I have not had breakfast yet." That is the crew quote of the month. Awesome. Idiot.

Long story short, the guests will not stop bitching about how "inconvenient" the fire was. The two guests corridors still reek. And they have been working on repairing our still-not-functioning-even-though-its-one-week-later jacuzzi system.

And that's the story I have to share for now!