Travel Tuesday

Welcome to our second week of Travel Tuesday! We have been smokin' busy this last week so Jen is preparing a great article on Tunisia, Africa. Her photos are amazing so it will be a fantastic read. 

This week we're going to talk to everyone who has, wants to or is thinking of cruising. As you know Jen and I both have spent many days at sea... Between the both of us about 2,555 with a few vacation days here and there! I know most people think it's all glam working on a cruise ship eating the food and living the high life but remember we are working 24-7, and as photographers we took photos of all the passengers, developed their photos and the crew's, and best of all we had to dress up in costumes at least once during each cruise. Alaska=Polar Bear, Brown Bear and Moose, Caribbean=Pirates, Asia=Dragon & Geisha, Australia, New Zealand=Kangaroo, well you get the idea!

We want to give some advice to future cruisers, the photogs are not out to get you! We just need to get a quick photo of you and we'll be on our way. It's so easy to smile quickly and run away from us. You don't have to buy the photos, but you'd be surprised they turn out pretty good! The embarkation photo can start off your photo album because it has your cruise date and port, the gangway photos are the ones everyone seem to hate the most. Trust us we would much rather be sleeping then standing out in the blazing sun for four hours in Aruba or in the sub zero temperatures in Siberia! But they are also great markers for your photo albums. Of course there are the fun ones we always take, and as we always say to our friends who are going on a cruise for the first time, it's quicker to smile for the photo then explain why you don't want your photo taken! Enjoy yourselves and have fun with us it will show in the photos and you will have some amazing ones to show your friends and family when you get home.

We have heard so many questions over our years some we thought were urban myths until we heard them with our own ears... If you have been on a cruise before and have asked one of the questions well, you now know you asked one of the "famous" questions. If you're planning on going on a cruise, make note of the questions and see if you can hear anyone asking a crew member one of them and watch the crew's reaction... I promise it will be priceless!

1. How do I find my photo? (remember what you look like!!)
2. Do you develop our photos on board?
3. When do we see the whale show? (heard anytime we're at sea in Alaska)
4. Do these stairs go up or down?
5. How do I work the microwave in my stateroom? (umm it's a safe!)
6. Do the crew sleep on board?
7. Do you live on the ship?
8. Do you go home on the weekends?
9. What time is the midnight buffet?
10. Does this elevator take me to my room?
11. Can we look at the anchor? (while anchored!)
12. Can you move the lifeboat from our stateroom window?
13. Has this ship ever sunk before?
14. Do the lifeboats really float?
15. Do we have to go to the compulsory lifeboat drill?
16. The orange pillows on my bed are so hard, can we get softer ones? (Ma'am, those are your lifejackets)
17. Why does the ship not have cable?
    
18. Why isn't everything in the shops reduced on the last day of the cruise?
19. Can you ask the "Captain" to stop rocking the ship when we're eating?
20. (At the Captain's Cocktail party) Who's driving the boat?
21. What do you do with the ice carvings after they've melted?
22. Have you seen my husband?
23. What side of the ship will the sun rise on?
24. Is this island completely surrounded by water?
25. My Favourite: What elevation are we at? (SEA LEVEL!)

Enjoy your summer and travel lots!

~Amy and Jen