Spiritum

This new ship is very cocky about it’s GI problem. There are hand sanitizers kinda…arouuund. Apparently someone in one of the previous casts got GI, but as someone said, scoldingly, “he was playing beer pong in the crew bar.” On the last ship, we were aggressively sanitized at every possibility. There were hand sanitizers at the door of ever restaurant, in front of the elevators, in the elevators, as you enter the buffet—and those are the stand alone, laser eye versions. There were humans with spray bottles who aggressively sanitized you. Here, there are more than a few double-paned windows with mold growing between them. Hand sanitizers are around, but only the stand alone versions and only here and there, as if to say “meh, if YOU think you need it.”

I forgot that people have dots behind their ears, which is a transdermal anti-barf system. I have felt sluggish and tired, which is how it is when you get on ships.

The clientle here is famously New Jersey apparently. I wouldn’t know exactly, but there are a lot of tattoos on dads (I just saw Yosemite Sam) and kids with large chains (silver/gold) and large crosses on them. Generally there are a lot of eyebrows. I have only seen a little bit of ice cream so far.

As per usual, the chocolate chip cookies disappear immediately. We met the two magicians, a husband & wife team, who are obviously fascinating.

We saw teenagers being RADICAL! To one another via “your freckles turn green in the sun” spake by a dark, freckle free Italian-ish pre-pubescent boy (physically) with a post pubescent attitude (emotionally). He did not make eye contact with the girl (taller) that he was trying to impress. She said “what? Hahaha that’s not true hahaha.” He and his shy buddy both were wearing large silver crosses.

A very large woman in a bathing suit decided to use the handicapped bathroom. She was not handicapped, but I guess didn’t want to open the door, so she pressed the button. This revealed a gentleman already using the bathroom. They had a long exchange of mutual annoyed muttering. She then walked to use the non-handicapped bathroom. He eventually left, revealing himself not to be handicapped.

We walk through the casino a lot. I have very strong negative feelings about casinos, so this will be a challenge for self. There are Sopranos themed one armed bandits…jackpots…see this is how your brain dies. I cannot think of SLOTS!!! Slots. This is an appropriate theme because so many people are from Jersey.

A note about flip flops: many people purchase flip flops with about ¾ of an inch extra hanging off the back.

The buffet closed. Almost entirely. The ice cream station: remained open.