Nighttime in Nassau

It was one of the dancer's birthdays last night so we went out to a bar and night club in Nassau. The birthday had a cowboy theme, which resulted in a lot of people dressed as cowboys and cowgirls but speaking in British or Australian accents. Some people were worn out from the previous night's helipad party (again, don't kick yourself that your own life doesn't afford you the opportunity to attend parties thrown on helipads. The next time you're out, look around and try to find a space where a helicopter could land, if necessary. Then tell yourself that you're on a helipad and you'll have some sense of what it's like to be me), so it ended up being just Jason and me who went out. The bar we went to had no real ventilation system, so we were all sweatbots fifteen minutes in. But the night was really fun and I feel like we're slowly but surely chipping our way into the crew's social infrastructure.

I had meant to write about this on Monday but I had forgotten. The ship's (optional) formal night is held on Monday, where you can dress up for dinner if you want. My mother was surprised that it was held so early on the trip but the cruise director jokes that it's the only night people will be able to fit into their clothes (alluding to the seven pounds people are supposed to gain while on a cruise. By that reasoning, I will be 286 pounds when I leave in September). Anyway, the idea is that you go to one of the ship's fancier restaurants to get the full formal effect. Somehow this message isn't conveyed to all of the passengers, resulting in a few sad-eyed elderly people in full formal regalia going through the buffet line. This only strengthens my theory that the ship is closer to middle school than anyone would like believe. They look like the kids whose mothers told them to wear a tie to the sixth grade dance, and then they're forced to endure the public embarrassment as their cooler contemporaries walk by them wearing t-shirts and shorts. It's none of my business, but I still fight the urge to tell these people that they should go back to their rooms and change into something more comfortable. Or not eat at the buffet.