this weekend was a ship holiday weekend meaning all non-essential activities got the day off--the academy, the OR, non-duty deck and engineering. a nice break to just enjoy the country or some down time on ship. some times on ship, it can seem as if you are drowning in time...way too much time available for not that many activities. life is not necessarily less busy than at home, you just take out the commute to wherever it is that you go to do the things you do. so, with a lot more free time, you've got to be pretty creative at amusing yourselves...card games, sock golf championships, 80's dance party on deck 8, scavenger hunts, going out on the town, movies in the international lounge, etc.
so, friday evening was another one of those how to fill the time and please let it be something different than every day stuff. so we went dancing. and now, i have been dancing on three different continents...swing/salsa/country at home, a celeidh in scotland and now, salsa dancing in west africa. it was a blast. 8 of us went from the ship (6 girls, 2 guys) and the first hour or so was lessons of basic salsa and the cha-cha. the africans who were there dancing with us had moves! and, being that the guy-girl ratio was bad, i did end up having to break my rule about only dancing with people i know. saturday was spent at one of the hotels at the pool where i developed a nose red enough to help santa at Christmas or direct shipping traffic and a nice red circle on my back that just matches the cut out circle on my swimsuit. but the day was lovely and relaxing.
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