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Friday, April 17, 2009

Easter weekend

Well as probably most all of you know it was Easter weekend last weekend just past. I really enjoy times like this on the ship because they really make an effort to make it a special time of celebration. We had a 4 day weekend on the ship over Easter to that people could take a break and enjoy the celebration or as alot of the West African crew did as well as some others go home for the weekend.

For those that stay on the ship over the weekend there is a Friday morning service with a showing of The Passion of the Christ in the evening. Then on Sunday there is a sunrise service up on the top deck of the ship followed by a big brunch put on by the Galley and then in the evening there is a service followed by and open house night. They way the open house works is people volunteer to open up their cabins for anyone to come and have a look and they usually have something to eat and drink in there as well and you can go around all the different cabins that are open and meet the people and also see all the different sorts of cabins and how people decorate from family cabins to couples cabins to even single berth cabins.

There were also other small events going on every night of the week leading up to the Easter weekend as well so the Chaplains really do a great job of organising the whole thing.

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