It's Christmas on the Africa Mercy!
It started with Deck the Halls- decorating the ship for Christmas last Saturday.
I was handed a box with a Christmas tree in it to set up by the piano. I opened the box and the directions were in Dutch. By luckily I had an 8 yr old girl to help me.
Then I helped decorate the African trees above the Starbucks. The problem there was that one of the bases of one of the trees was broken, and the superglue that we had only made it sticky. Then we had 3 plugs for a two plug adapter. And the plugs were all European fittings, and the ship is UK fittings, so we needed more adapters. One of the strings of lights didn't work, so we had to put one of the smaller trees in front of a bigger tree to share the string of lights. Then one tree didn't blink, but the others did. Then we had to move them all around....
So it's just like decorating anywhere else in the world!
This week we celebrated the arrival of Sinter Klass- the Dutch Santa. We watched the academy's production of The Nutcracker. Tonight we had the Winter Wonderland-tables full of crafts and baked goods. All you have to do to make a purchase is sign your name-and it will be taken out of the crew bank. A very easy way to spend money!
One of the tables sold eggnog. We didn't know that eggnog was so exotic- a new experience for our Dutch friends. After having eggnog on the ship, our friend Jan tried to buy it at the Walmart in Texas the next time he was in the States. Unfortunately, he was in Texas in April!
We also had a table to sell the finger puppets I made at home for the kids here. We sold or gave away almost all of them-a very successful evening!
There's a lot of celebrating here. Santa Lucia day, the snowflake contest, Christmas movies, the Academy Christmas play. I know we will miss our own Christmas traditions with our family and church-as will everyone else on board. But for us this year, it will be an International/ African Christmas!
Debbie
It started with Deck the Halls- decorating the ship for Christmas last Saturday.
I was handed a box with a Christmas tree in it to set up by the piano. I opened the box and the directions were in Dutch. By luckily I had an 8 yr old girl to help me.
Then I helped decorate the African trees above the Starbucks. The problem there was that one of the bases of one of the trees was broken, and the superglue that we had only made it sticky. Then we had 3 plugs for a two plug adapter. And the plugs were all European fittings, and the ship is UK fittings, so we needed more adapters. One of the strings of lights didn't work, so we had to put one of the smaller trees in front of a bigger tree to share the string of lights. Then one tree didn't blink, but the others did. Then we had to move them all around....
So it's just like decorating anywhere else in the world!
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| The trees above the Starbucks |
We also had a table to sell the finger puppets I made at home for the kids here. We sold or gave away almost all of them-a very successful evening!
Debbie
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