Cruise - Day 6 (Prince Rupert)

Day six was Thursday, May 7th. We had a lot of time on the boat this day because we didn't arrive at Prince Rupert until about 4:oo PM. The first activity was a behind the scenes presentation of our cruise ship, the Norwegian Star. Unfortunately we were kinda lazy that morning and were late to the presentation and had to stand in the back of the lounge. It was pretty interesting, the cruise director shared with us a lot of pictures and stories of the ship and how it was made and what it takes to make an entire cruise happen.

Next was NCL's version of the Weakest Link, also called the Weakest Link. It was lame, mostly because the host sucked. There were two people from the entertainment staff that we saw quite frequently, the Cruise Director Paul and the Assistant Cruise Director, Gary. Paul was cool, he had had a lot of charisma and was very witty and brought a lot to the table in everything he was in. Gary... did not have that much charisma and struggled a lot every time he had to read something. So, unfortunately Gary was hosting the Weakest Link, and it was to get into the show when he was struggling to get through every question. He was reading a golf question and said "misshit" instead of "miss hit". His excuse was that there was no space in between the words on his paper. I'm not an avid golfer but I'm pretty sure "misshit" isn't a golf term. Whatever, a lady from Utah won the show so that was cool.

So later on we went ashore when we got to Prince Rupert, British Columbia. This was the coolest stop, even though I'd never heard of it before. This was actually a real town and not a tourist town. There were real residents walking the street. So Cassie and I just walked around town and saw the sights. There weren't very many traffic lights at all, and I guess the law is that you yield to pedestrians because traffic would stop if anyone looked like they were trying to cross the street at a corner. Needless to say, we were a little hesitant crossing the street since we are used to the douchebag drivers back in the good ol' U.S. of A.

The people of Prince Rupert were actually pretty nice as well, for the most part. Oftentimes people would recognize you as a tourist and ask where you were from and all that and be all friendly. There was this one extremely intoxicated guy that tried to ask me for some money so he could by cigarettes. He had a friend with him too that just sat back and laughed. I said I didn't have any cash or cigarettes and we got outta there. It wasn't that scare though, it was broad daylight and there were people around. The guy was just dumb.

Anyway, we were in Prince Rupert for a few hours but I don't really have much to write about because we just walked around and saw what there was to see.

Back on the ship we went to the nightly big show which was a ventriloquist this time. He only had one puppet, which was a Jamaican woman. The guy was actually pretty talented, and his comedy was pretty good. I hardly saw his lips move so I had to give him props for that, but still ventriloquism doesn't appeal to me that much.

That does it for day six.