Jesus Cruise
Posted on September 7th, 2006 by catalyst into the Uncategorized categoryPete sends in a link to a Christian Music Boat Cruise:
Here's a typical day for a passenger on the cruise:
7:15- Room service. What a wonderful invention. Up early for pancake breakfast with the sunrise.
8:41- Ready to be uplifted during devotions with the help of Todd Agnew and David Nasser.
10:04- Getting off the boat for Jamaica. Trying to decide between a tour of the island or hiking to a tropical waterfall. Time to flip a coin.
3:46- Back on the ship. Laying out on the sundeck with friends enjoying the view of Caribbean waters and exotic shorelines.
3:52- I'm pretty sure that Nicole C. Mullen waved at me from 4 chairs over.
4:57- Getting cleaned up for dinner at the exquisite restaurant onboard.
5:45- The word "exquisite" doesn't do the food justice. Dining is its own experience here.
7:50- Left for the Third Day concert. I hear the band is signing autographs tomorrow. Must remember to grab all 5 of mine.
9:08- Acoustic set with Bebo Norman. The calming waters only soothe the atmosphere making a perfect worship experience.
10:00- No time for sleep yet. I'm off to see Tim Hawkins eclectic comedy routine. Bring Kleenex in case I laugh so hard I cry.
11:53- Discussing the day's events with friends in my comfortable oceanview stateroom. Hawkins still cracking us up.
12:25- Finally slipping under the covers. Tomorrow can't come soon enough. Another day of relaxing, fun, concerts, and spiritual renewal. Man, did I ever need this vacation.
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September 7th, 2006 at 9:32 am
That’s weird Catalyst, but not quite as wild as the “Renewal Cruise” that our parents want to go on.
Rumor has it, on last years cruise the prayer was so great the boat started rocking back and forth…
Thats some crazy stuff.
September 7th, 2006 at 9:38 am
What kind of anal person keeps a daily log like that, on vacation?
Oh - and I hate web sites with crappy music you can’t turn off.
September 8th, 2006 at 8:42 am
Unscrupulous, why don’t you just hit the “Stop” button to turn the music off. It’s the little square, just to the left of the right-facing triangle that will start playing the music again.
There, now you don’t have to hate that website anymore.
September 8th, 2006 at 9:11 am
Dang! Gotta find something else to hate, now.
September 8th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
I just got back from a 2-week Alaskan cruise… our ship rocked back and forth for about 12 hours quite heartily… but that was due to an extremely choppy sea…. The captain knew it was coming and they announced about 6 hours before the storm to take sea sickness pills or whatever you might need and hung out buckets of barf bags by all the elevators…
I am sure a few prayers were muttered by folks in the casino for luck to turn their way or by those lying in their bunks and barfing that the waves would stop….
September 9th, 2006 at 6:50 am
Yeah - gets real choppy there in the inside passage.
My youth group sailed out of Seattle on the ‘Alaska Marine Highway’ system (now out of Bellingham), and we spent a few weeks working on villages up there, and at Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka. Running late because a semi got stuck in the exit ramp, the captain steered into open water, rather than the inside passage the ferries normally took. We had a dozen people in our group, and all got sick except me and the reverend. Funny thing, it was a nice night, not stormy at all. The inside passage was real smooth …
What cruise line did you take, and where’d you sail from, LL?
September 9th, 2006 at 8:40 am
I did Holland America from Vancouver, BC, to Seward and back. We did Ketchikan, Sitka, Skagway, Juneau, Hoohah, and Hubbard Glacier. Did all but Sitka and Skagway twice over the 2 weeks.
September 9th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
This sounds like a great idea!!
About 2 years ago I was on a cruise through the western
Mediterranean aboard a Princess liner. At dinner I noticed an elderly
lady sitting alone along the rail of the grand stairway in the main
dining room.
I also noticed that all the staff, ships officers, waiters, busboys,
etc., all seemed very familiar with this lady. I asked our waiter who
the lady was, expecting to be told that she owned the line,but he said he
only knew that she had been on board for the last four cruises, back-to-back.
As we left the dining room one evening I caught her eye and stopped to
say hello. We chatted and I said, “I understand you’ve been on this ship
for the last four cruises”. She replied, “Yes, that’s true.” I stated, “I
don’t understand”.
She replied, without a pause, “It’s cheaper than a nursing home”.
So, there will be no nursing home in my future. When I get old and
feeble, I am going to get on a Princess Cruise Ship. The average cost for a
nursing home is $200 per day. I have checked on reservations on a Princess and
I can get a long term discount and senior discount price of $135 per day.
That leaves $65 a day for:
1. Gratuities which will only be $10 per day.
2. I will have as many as 10 meals a day if I can waddle to the
restaurant, or I can have room service (which means I can have
breakfast-in-bed every day of the week).
3. Princess has as many as three swimming pools, a workout room, free
washers and dryers, and shows every night.
4. They have free toothpaste and razors, and free soap and shampoo.
5. They will even treat you like a customer, not a patient. An extra
$5 worth of tips will have the entire staff scrambling to help you.
6. I will get to meet new people every 7 or 14 days.
7. T.V. broken? Light bulb need changing? Need to have the mattress
replaced? No Problem! They will fix everything and apologize for your
inconvenience.
8. Clean sheets and towels every day, and you don’t even have to ask
for them.
9. If you fall in the nursing home and break a hip you are on Medicare;
if you fall and break a hip on the Princess ship they will upgrade you
to a suite for the rest of your life.
Now hold on for the best! Do you want to see South America, the Panama
Canal, Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, or name where you want to
go?
Princess will have a ship ready to go. So don’t look for me in a
nursing home, just call shore to ship.
P.S.: And don’t forget, when you die, they just dump you over the side –
at no charge.