We took a 2 week cruise on The Cunard Countess. We flew to Puerto Rico
and cruised directly to Venezula. It was December and we had extremely rough seas.
We encountered some waves as high as 30 feet! Half of the passengers did not show
up for dinner that night. The captain came around to all the tables and asked
everyone to please go directly to their cabins after dinner that we were going
to really hit some rough weather ahead. Our first cruise! Wow, it was a night
to remember - I can tell you that. We survived the night without casualty. We saw
some very nice places all over the Eastern and Western Caribbean. I'm not exactly
sure but I think we visited, Antiqua, Barbados, St. Kitts, St. Lucia,
St. Maarten, St. Thomas, Tortola, Guadeloupe, and Martinque on these trips. The cruise
director was a multi-talented performer and puppeteer. There were two other
performers named Juan and Beverly on board and they were awfully nice. We liked it so much we went back two more times. The last time Juan and
Beverly were the cruise directors. Juan is a very funny man. Beverly sings
beautifully. They a do spanish dance act. One day we happened to be on deck
in the hot tub when Juan set up his microphone and began to organize pool games.
Juan coaxed my sister into joining in. He of course knew us pretty well by then.
There was diving for spoons and various other games. My sister swims like a
fish and had won 3 bottles of champagne. I just kept lining them up on the edge
of the hot tub. All the excitement had drawn quite a
crowd, a fact that my sister had not noticed. Juan took a huge net bag full of
multi-colored, tennis size, vinyl balls and dumped them all in the pool. The
surface was just about covered with floating balls. Then he explained that
the one who got the most balls into their bathing suit won the final game. There
were about 10 people playing. He blew the whistle and the frenzy began. They
started stuffing and stuffing. Balls were popping out as they stuffed new ones in.
It was so funny. The crowd continued to build on the decks overlooking the pool.
The players were oblivious. The family was cheering. Finally there were no
more balls left floating. Juan began to call the players out one by one. They
reached into their suits and pulled out the balls. The crowd counted them off. The boys didn't really have a chance, 14 or 15 that's about it. Then the skinny
woman with a bikini, no way. Next the women with one piece suits. They are
reaching down, yanking out, twisting and manuvering to get these balls out. Juan
is looking and making faces about where their pulling them out of. One woman had
about 36. My sister kept trying to get out of the pool next but Juan kept saying
no, you stay in there. Then finally, she was the only one left in the pool and he said,
"OK, NOW YOU." She got out of the pool and her suit was bulging in every direction.
She was huge! She starting fishing out those balls and Juan kept counting and
counting, 36, 37, 38, no end in sight. She just kept pulling them out. She
had 52 balls in her bathing suit! Then she twitched, wiggled, made a face, Juan
made a face and she pulled out another ball! 53 balls! There were hundreds of
people lining the rails on 3 decks looking down at this spectacle. She of
course won a forth bottle of champagne! From that point on, everybody on the
ship recognized us in elevators, at dinner, on shore, everywhere! Everybody
just loved it. They kept saying we were such great sports. That was so much fun.
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