So right now our ships will be planning the big New Year’s Eve parties for Wednesday night. There will be live music on the Lido deck of every ship, the big countdown from New York’s Times Square for those ships with the Lido big screens and those without will have it broadcast live from the bridge. Each ship will have a massive balloon drop in the lobby or atrium and there will be complimentary champagne, party favours and so so so much fun. What a brilliant way to bring in 2015. I will have a very quiet evening here at home, so very different to the parties I had in my late teens with my best mate Alan. I remember one very well, I think it was 1987. I remember this one because I had just broken up with my girlfriend Helen . I remember Helen very well because she was the only girl that didn’t vomit at the sheer sight of me thus she was my only proper girlfriend. It had been a wonderful rumpy pumpy-fueled relationship which had lasted a blissful three weeks but on Christmas Day Helen came to her senses and dumped me. I was determined to party my way out of post break up depression and find another girl and somehow Alan and I got invited to a New Year’s Eve party and I was ready to go. We arrived to find lots of girls who by midnight would be drunk, have taken leave of their senses and would let me grope their bottoms while dancing to True by Spandau Ballet. However, I kind of accidentally drank pretty much a whole bottle of Jack Daniels by 9:30pm and passed out under our host’s kitchen table. I woke up at 3.30am, disoriented, to discover that the party was over and my best mate Alan had left the party without me but not before taking my shoes and socks off and taking them with him. I then had to call a cab which took me home sockless, shoeless and with a wet patch on the crotch of my Levi’s. Since then the best New Years Eve celebrations have been on the ships and I will be showing you some photos of what happens on some of our ships next week. The one I will always remember will be the Millennium cruise on the Carnival Triumph. I remember the emergency meetings we had about Y2K and what we would do when the ship was plunged into darkness and the world came to an end. I remember that every single guest was on Lido and many were wearing grand costumes as we had advertised months in advance that the party would be a costume ball and many were dressed in elaborate gowns…….it was an incomparable night and Y2K went the same way as the world pandemic of Ebola and never happened. What a party that was. My Mum and Dad and sister and family were on board. So were golfers Nick Price and Lee Trevino. It was also memorable because just after midnight a guest grabbed me and stuck their tongue down my throat. His name was Brian! cheers
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:41:20 +0000
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