Here are a few videos from Sarah McLachlan's final show on the last night of Ships & Dip V.
Enjoy!
Sarah McLachlan - Building A Mystery
Sarah Mclachlan - Adia w. Butterfly Boucher
Sarah McLachlan - Angel w. Butterfly Boucher
Friday, May 8, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Post-Cruise Day 2 - Sunday Feb 8
Sunday - Day 8
Well this is it.
The end of our trip.
Time to head home.
Blakely here we come.
Today we got up around 7 and headed for the complimentary breakfast at the hotel. After grabbing a quick bite we went back to the room to shower and finish packing. We left the hotel around 9:15 to bring the Toyota Sienna minivan back to Hertz. I am sorry to see this car go. The car had to be back to Hertz at the Orlando airport by 10:00 and we got there at exactly 10. There was shuttle ready to leave for the airport and we hopped on. After about a 7 minute ride we are at the US Airways terminal. As per usual the check in counter was as far away as possible and we had to walk. (more exercise for all the food we ate on the cruise!) We checked in and headed for the security checkpoint. I was nervous about this because last year was pretty crazy going through security. It turned out to be very easy - as we were next in line, a TSA agent had us go over to a much shorter line and we breezed through. I must say we are getting pretty good at this air travel stuff. What we didn‘t count on was this process being so fast that we had over an hour wait to board.
We made the most of the wait by checking out some of the million photos we took! Gotta love digital photography. We got a couple of sandwiches and snacks and waited for them to call us to board. The flight was scheduled for 12:10 and the boarding started at 11:40. Since we sat towards the back of the plane we boarded early and ate our lunch while the rest of the passengers boarded. The plane left the terminal promptly at 12:10 however we sat on the taxiway until approx 12:20. The flight was full and seemed to have quite a lot of loud children who were apparently as unhappy leaving Mickey as we were leaving the cruise. There was little turbulence on the flight however it was not too bad. While listening to our Ipods the flight seemed to go by fast. We touched down at about 2:40. After about another 10 minute wait to get off the plane we were finally in PHL to get our luggage from the baggage claim area. Our bags came down about 3:10 and they both looked to have made fine. After getting on our last shuttle bus we headed for the parking lot to pick up “V” - Amy’s car. We loaded up our stuff in “V” and $99 later we were out of the lot to make our 2 ½ hour drive home. By the way when we got in “V” the temp was 57. When we left Orlando it was 61!?!? Only 4 degrees colder! WTF! Strange week for weather. Got home about 6. Got pizza. Went to sleep.
What a great trip. Who knew that this might be the last time we ever see BNL with Steve. Who knows if there will ever be another Ships & Dip but one thing that's for certain is that this in not our last cruise.
This is it for the blog for now but we may post an update or 2 with some more video that we took from this cruise and maybe even previous cruises.
Thanks for reading.
Stan & Amy
Well this is it.
The end of our trip.
Time to head home.
Blakely here we come.
Today we got up around 7 and headed for the complimentary breakfast at the hotel. After grabbing a quick bite we went back to the room to shower and finish packing. We left the hotel around 9:15 to bring the Toyota Sienna minivan back to Hertz. I am sorry to see this car go. The car had to be back to Hertz at the Orlando airport by 10:00 and we got there at exactly 10. There was shuttle ready to leave for the airport and we hopped on. After about a 7 minute ride we are at the US Airways terminal. As per usual the check in counter was as far away as possible and we had to walk. (more exercise for all the food we ate on the cruise!) We checked in and headed for the security checkpoint. I was nervous about this because last year was pretty crazy going through security. It turned out to be very easy - as we were next in line, a TSA agent had us go over to a much shorter line and we breezed through. I must say we are getting pretty good at this air travel stuff. What we didn‘t count on was this process being so fast that we had over an hour wait to board.
We made the most of the wait by checking out some of the million photos we took! Gotta love digital photography. We got a couple of sandwiches and snacks and waited for them to call us to board. The flight was scheduled for 12:10 and the boarding started at 11:40. Since we sat towards the back of the plane we boarded early and ate our lunch while the rest of the passengers boarded. The plane left the terminal promptly at 12:10 however we sat on the taxiway until approx 12:20. The flight was full and seemed to have quite a lot of loud children who were apparently as unhappy leaving Mickey as we were leaving the cruise. There was little turbulence on the flight however it was not too bad. While listening to our Ipods the flight seemed to go by fast. We touched down at about 2:40. After about another 10 minute wait to get off the plane we were finally in PHL to get our luggage from the baggage claim area. Our bags came down about 3:10 and they both looked to have made fine. After getting on our last shuttle bus we headed for the parking lot to pick up “V” - Amy’s car. We loaded up our stuff in “V” and $99 later we were out of the lot to make our 2 ½ hour drive home. By the way when we got in “V” the temp was 57. When we left Orlando it was 61!?!? Only 4 degrees colder! WTF! Strange week for weather. Got home about 6. Got pizza. Went to sleep.
What a great trip. Who knew that this might be the last time we ever see BNL with Steve. Who knows if there will ever be another Ships & Dip but one thing that's for certain is that this in not our last cruise.
This is it for the blog for now but we may post an update or 2 with some more video that we took from this cruise and maybe even previous cruises.
Thanks for reading.
Stan & Amy
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Post-Cruise Day 1 - Saturday Feb 7
Saturday - Day 7
Sea World day!
We arrived at Sea World at 10:00AM ready for a day of fun and excitement as this is our first Sea World experience. The first thing we did when we got in the park was grab a map and plotted out our day. There are a few rides and a few shows. Each show lasts about 30 minutes and rides vary. The first place we HAD to go was to see SHAMU! Shamu’s first show started at 11 and we made it in plenty of time. The show was pretty cool. Apparently there are 2 groups of killer whales at Sea World and yesterday they put the 2 groups together for the first time. The show didn’t go as expected as about half way through they stopped the show to give the whales some time to get “acquainted” with each other. They finished the show but I got the feeling it didn’t go as planned, anyway it was still cool.
After the Shamu show we headed over Kraken - Sea World’s only roller coaster. It may be the only roller coaster in the park but by no means is it tame. It is a very fast loopy-twistin'-scream fest and that’s all before the first drop. And we are proud to say we survived. After getting off the ride and catching our breath we went over to the sea lion and otter theater to see the Clyde and Seamore pirate island show. Clyde and Seamore are sea lions and this was the best thing at Sea World - so much so we even went back to see the show again before leaving. The show is hysterical especially because Clyde and Seamore were not taking their cues properly. Very funny stuff. Definitely 2 flippers up!
After the show the weather warmed up enough (about 68) so we headed over to Journey to Atlantis - a water flume ride. Amy was a little nervous as they said you WILL get wet on this ride. We ended up on a boat with half kids and I don’t know if that had anything to do with it but we didn’t get too wet - good for Amy but a disappointment for Stan. We then had a bite to eat. Next, we took in A’Lure. This is Sea World’s performance show like Cirque du Soleil. It was cool. We then went to Wild Artic an indoor ride that is like a helicopter ride to the artic that goes crazy. Very Cool. This was the last ride for us in the park. After grabbing a quick snack (ice cream in a shamu bowl) we then stopped by the Shark Encounter to check out the sharks. After the sharks it was time for another Clyde and Seamore show that we had to see again.
When the show ended we stopped by the sea lion and seal feeding area and then on to the Penguin Encounter to see Tux’s relatives. We then made a quick stop at Dolphin Cove to get up close to some dolphins. This area is a big pool with a whole bunch of dolphins that people can lean over he side and put their hands in the water and hopefully maybe a dolphin will swim close enough to touch. Since Amy is a little creeped out by her hand in the water - she took pictures of Stan with his hand in the water. He really didn’t think any would swim by as they were over in the other part of the pool. So he would take out his hand and wash it, then sure enough, more would start to swim by and he would put his hand back in. The routine went on for a few cycles and then to his surprise a few did swim over he got to touch a few. Wow, very cool to actually touch a dolphin. They feel kinda like slimy, stiff pudding. After washing his hands the final time we walk by the stingray pool. Here we can feed stingrays and touch them. The food place was closed but you can still touch them. Once again Stan puts his hand in and there like 50 stingrays in the shallow pool. After a few minutes of touching them, much to Stan's surprise, Amy gingerly drops her hand in to touch them as she wasn‘t afraid since she held one last year in Grand Cayman. We thought it was cute that they were all swimming in the same direction in a circle and creating a whirlpool. Imediately after touching them we washed our hands again and headed for the exit as it freezing now and we still had to eat dinner and pack. (sob, sob) We decided to leave Sea World and go to Universal’s City Walk for dinner, which is near our hotel. Since is was our last night we had to get a margarita from Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville restaurant. We got there at about 7:30 and they said it would be a 1 hour to 1hour & 15 minute wait. Well we didn’t want a margartia that bad. We then walked over to the Hard Rock Café and if it was less than an hour we would eat there. To our surprise we walked right in! We even had a margartia there and we were finished before we would have even been called for out table at Margaritaville. It worked our great. Now it was time to head back to the hotel and pack.
Do we really have to go home?
Sea World day!
We arrived at Sea World at 10:00AM ready for a day of fun and excitement as this is our first Sea World experience. The first thing we did when we got in the park was grab a map and plotted out our day. There are a few rides and a few shows. Each show lasts about 30 minutes and rides vary. The first place we HAD to go was to see SHAMU! Shamu’s first show started at 11 and we made it in plenty of time. The show was pretty cool. Apparently there are 2 groups of killer whales at Sea World and yesterday they put the 2 groups together for the first time. The show didn’t go as expected as about half way through they stopped the show to give the whales some time to get “acquainted” with each other. They finished the show but I got the feeling it didn’t go as planned, anyway it was still cool.
After the Shamu show we headed over Kraken - Sea World’s only roller coaster. It may be the only roller coaster in the park but by no means is it tame. It is a very fast loopy-twistin'-scream fest and that’s all before the first drop. And we are proud to say we survived. After getting off the ride and catching our breath we went over to the sea lion and otter theater to see the Clyde and Seamore pirate island show. Clyde and Seamore are sea lions and this was the best thing at Sea World - so much so we even went back to see the show again before leaving. The show is hysterical especially because Clyde and Seamore were not taking their cues properly. Very funny stuff. Definitely 2 flippers up!
After the show the weather warmed up enough (about 68) so we headed over to Journey to Atlantis - a water flume ride. Amy was a little nervous as they said you WILL get wet on this ride. We ended up on a boat with half kids and I don’t know if that had anything to do with it but we didn’t get too wet - good for Amy but a disappointment for Stan. We then had a bite to eat. Next, we took in A’Lure. This is Sea World’s performance show like Cirque du Soleil. It was cool. We then went to Wild Artic an indoor ride that is like a helicopter ride to the artic that goes crazy. Very Cool. This was the last ride for us in the park. After grabbing a quick snack (ice cream in a shamu bowl) we then stopped by the Shark Encounter to check out the sharks. After the sharks it was time for another Clyde and Seamore show that we had to see again.
When the show ended we stopped by the sea lion and seal feeding area and then on to the Penguin Encounter to see Tux’s relatives. We then made a quick stop at Dolphin Cove to get up close to some dolphins. This area is a big pool with a whole bunch of dolphins that people can lean over he side and put their hands in the water and hopefully maybe a dolphin will swim close enough to touch. Since Amy is a little creeped out by her hand in the water - she took pictures of Stan with his hand in the water. He really didn’t think any would swim by as they were over in the other part of the pool. So he would take out his hand and wash it, then sure enough, more would start to swim by and he would put his hand back in. The routine went on for a few cycles and then to his surprise a few did swim over he got to touch a few. Wow, very cool to actually touch a dolphin. They feel kinda like slimy, stiff pudding. After washing his hands the final time we walk by the stingray pool. Here we can feed stingrays and touch them. The food place was closed but you can still touch them. Once again Stan puts his hand in and there like 50 stingrays in the shallow pool. After a few minutes of touching them, much to Stan's surprise, Amy gingerly drops her hand in to touch them as she wasn‘t afraid since she held one last year in Grand Cayman. We thought it was cute that they were all swimming in the same direction in a circle and creating a whirlpool. Imediately after touching them we washed our hands again and headed for the exit as it freezing now and we still had to eat dinner and pack. (sob, sob) We decided to leave Sea World and go to Universal’s City Walk for dinner, which is near our hotel. Since is was our last night we had to get a margarita from Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville restaurant. We got there at about 7:30 and they said it would be a 1 hour to 1hour & 15 minute wait. Well we didn’t want a margartia that bad. We then walked over to the Hard Rock Café and if it was less than an hour we would eat there. To our surprise we walked right in! We even had a margartia there and we were finished before we would have even been called for out table at Margaritaville. It worked our great. Now it was time to head back to the hotel and pack.
Do we really have to go home?
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Day 6 - Friday Feb 6
Well, this is it, the ship is back in Miami - the cruise is over...
...but our vacation isn't. We're going to Sea World!!
But first we have to debark the ship.
First things first - we got to eat. We go up to the buffet for our final omelette and then come back to the room to finish packing and head on out. Since Norweigan is a freestyle cruise line they have freestyle debarkation, where, if you're carrying your luggage off yourself (instead of the porters) you can debark the ship at your convience anytime between 8am -10:30am. We got off the ship around 8:30ish and had no problems.
We got a shuttle to take us to Hertz in downtown Miami and we got our rental car , ahem, rental van and were on our way to Orlando by 9:30. We checked into our hotel, a Hampton Inn, a little after 2 and settled in (read: Amy disinfects the room). After being away from the internet for 6 days Stan is going through withdrawals and takes advantage of the free Wi-Fi connection and gets to work catching up on the week while Amy falls asleep - for 3 hours! After Amy waking up way past dinnertime (7pm) we head over to Downtown Disney to have dinner at the Fulton Crab House. Downtown Disney is an area of shops, restaurants and night clubs that are a separate part of Disney World. It must be hoppin' tonight because we have about a 35 minute wait for a table at the restaurant. After our bellies are full we walk through some of the Disney shops before driving back to the hotel.
Tomorrow we will go to Sea World for the first time.
Can't wait to meet Shamu!
...but our vacation isn't. We're going to Sea World!!
But first we have to debark the ship.
First things first - we got to eat. We go up to the buffet for our final omelette and then come back to the room to finish packing and head on out. Since Norweigan is a freestyle cruise line they have freestyle debarkation, where, if you're carrying your luggage off yourself (instead of the porters) you can debark the ship at your convience anytime between 8am -10:30am. We got off the ship around 8:30ish and had no problems.
We got a shuttle to take us to Hertz in downtown Miami and we got our rental car , ahem, rental van and were on our way to Orlando by 9:30. We checked into our hotel, a Hampton Inn, a little after 2 and settled in (read: Amy disinfects the room). After being away from the internet for 6 days Stan is going through withdrawals and takes advantage of the free Wi-Fi connection and gets to work catching up on the week while Amy falls asleep - for 3 hours! After Amy waking up way past dinnertime (7pm) we head over to Downtown Disney to have dinner at the Fulton Crab House. Downtown Disney is an area of shops, restaurants and night clubs that are a separate part of Disney World. It must be hoppin' tonight because we have about a 35 minute wait for a table at the restaurant. After our bellies are full we walk through some of the Disney shops before driving back to the hotel.
Tomorrow we will go to Sea World for the first time.
Can't wait to meet Shamu!
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Day 5 - Thursday Feb 5
Thursday - Day 5
Today is supposed to be our day of relaxing in the sun at the beach on Norwegian’s private island of Great Stirrup Cay.
Well, it was not to be and yesterday we were told that due to the poor surf conditions at Great Stirrup Cay we would not be able to tender at the island. Instead we are going to Key West, FL. As this was very unexpected, obviously, we had done no research on Key West so we were not going to do too much as this is a long day for us. 2 words can describe our time in Key West - VERY COLD!!
Since it was kinda cold, surprisingly, this made Stan crabby and we didn’t spend too much time there. We did walk around downtown for a little bit, had a really good piece of Key Lime pie and coffee, got some souvenirs and then ate lunch at a great little place called Roof Top Café.
Well that was our stop in Key West. We're sure it is a great little place but Stan just was in no mood for the cold weather. Oh well, guess it happens to all of us at some point or another.
Anyway, we got back on the boat around 2 and time to starting thinking about how to make the most of our final night on the ship. With it being pretty cold and the schedule calling for a show out on the pool deck to start in the evening followed by a couple of indoor main theatre shows and ending with a late night outdoor jam we have plenty to think about regarding our clothing situation. At 4:30 we dressed in long pants and long sleeves and headed up to the pool deck for the sail away show by Gaelic Storm (our 3rd time seeing them this cruise). As we got there about an hour and half before show time we started chatting with another guy there who grabbed a couple of chairs and put them right up front of the stage. We followed suit and no sooner than us the rest of the people hanging out on the deck grabbed a few chairs or just stood in their spot for the show. Luckily for us we ended up right in the first row just left of center. AWESOME!! This makes baring the cold that much easier. The band came out and played fantastic even with it being so cold and Patrick seeming to be under the weather as he was “broken” the night before from a late night partying.
The show ended with Patrick leading a Conga line from the stage up to the 2nd level of the pool deck, around the upper level and down the other side stairs, directly to the pool where - yep you guessed it - Patrick jumped in followed by a few crazy souls. What a crazy, great ending to a trifecta of GS shows.
Thanks to BNL and Sixthman for exposing us to another great band that we have fallen in love with.
With the first outdoor show of the night over and a couple of indoor shows next we headed to our cabin to remove some of our layers and have our heavy clothing ready for after the BNL show. First we went to dinner and checked out the merch store (again!). Amy wanted to see what our charges to the room were and even though we have assigned seats for the show Stan was getting anxious about getting to the Sarah McLaughlin show as he was really looking forward to this since she was announced on the cruise. So Stan went to the theater and Amy went to the reception desk and she met him in the theater. She made it by the 8:30 start time and as usual, with just about everything on board, the show was late and Amy didn’t miss a thing. On my way to the theater, before the show started, Stan noticed a sign that made him both excited and bummed at the same time. The late night shows on the pool deck have been moved indoors to Bar City. So Yeah! We won’t freeze tonight but at the same time the new venue is quite small and the late night jam finale is a big event. All of our heavy clothing planning was for naught. Sarah’s set started at about 8:40 and it was amazing! Obviously she sang and played guitar on some songs and piano on the others. She was backed by Tyler and Jim from BNL and Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet. Sarah also asked Butterfly Boucher to sing on 2 songs. Did we say it was fantastic??!?!
With Sarah’s show over and at least 45 minutes before BNL, we headed up to our cabin to get rid of our heavy clothing since we will not be going outdoors anymore tonite. We made it back in plenty of time for BNL and they started their set about 10:15 and of course it was great. At the time we did not realize that this would be the last time that we would be seeing Steven Page playing in the Barenaked Ladies.
The show ended and we headed over to Bar City for The Odds then Acid Wish’s All-Star Jam. As expected the place was packed. We managed to squeeze our way to the left of the stage probably about 8-10 rows back in the standing room only floor. As the night went on and the hour getting later more people started to leave and we kept moving up as expected. By the time the show ended we were in about row 1½. At around 3:40AM during a raucous version of the Proclaimers “I Will Walk 500 miles”, the power went out. Ed made a sign saying they “blew a circuit and they were working on fixing it“, however we have a feeling that Norwegian were not working real hard to get it fixed. The remaining performers would have none of the silence and urged the crowd to continue the “na na na na na, na na na” part of the song. After about 10 minutes of this you could tell we were just about done for the night. Then all of a sudden someone started to sing the ending to “Hey Jude”.
Still with no power, the guys on stage leading the sing along about 100 more times, they finally ended the last refrain of “Hey Jude” making a perfect end to the cruise…well that is until the audience decided they were gonna be the ones to say when the jam/cruise was over. A few audience members started singing Hey Jude again then the voices carried from audience member to audience member like a wild fire before every member of the audience was singing. By now the guys on stage just stood there in amazement as we continued. The guys on stage then took our lead and started again playing whatever percussion instrument they could find. Then after what seemed like another 100 times of Hey Jude it was over. 4:10AM and we were done. WOW! We stuck around for a few minutes seeing all the guys say goodbye to each other and then we made our way up to the garden café once more for a late night, now early morning snack. This time it only consisted of a few glasses of water and ice tea and some cookies we had in our room. We went to bed a 4:30 to get some sleep and get up around 8 to pack and grab breakfast before disembarkation.
What a long a wonderful day!
Today is supposed to be our day of relaxing in the sun at the beach on Norwegian’s private island of Great Stirrup Cay.
Well, it was not to be and yesterday we were told that due to the poor surf conditions at Great Stirrup Cay we would not be able to tender at the island. Instead we are going to Key West, FL. As this was very unexpected, obviously, we had done no research on Key West so we were not going to do too much as this is a long day for us. 2 words can describe our time in Key West - VERY COLD!!
Since it was kinda cold, surprisingly, this made Stan crabby and we didn’t spend too much time there. We did walk around downtown for a little bit, had a really good piece of Key Lime pie and coffee, got some souvenirs and then ate lunch at a great little place called Roof Top Café.
Well that was our stop in Key West. We're sure it is a great little place but Stan just was in no mood for the cold weather. Oh well, guess it happens to all of us at some point or another.
Anyway, we got back on the boat around 2 and time to starting thinking about how to make the most of our final night on the ship. With it being pretty cold and the schedule calling for a show out on the pool deck to start in the evening followed by a couple of indoor main theatre shows and ending with a late night outdoor jam we have plenty to think about regarding our clothing situation. At 4:30 we dressed in long pants and long sleeves and headed up to the pool deck for the sail away show by Gaelic Storm (our 3rd time seeing them this cruise). As we got there about an hour and half before show time we started chatting with another guy there who grabbed a couple of chairs and put them right up front of the stage. We followed suit and no sooner than us the rest of the people hanging out on the deck grabbed a few chairs or just stood in their spot for the show. Luckily for us we ended up right in the first row just left of center. AWESOME!! This makes baring the cold that much easier. The band came out and played fantastic even with it being so cold and Patrick seeming to be under the weather as he was “broken” the night before from a late night partying.
The show ended with Patrick leading a Conga line from the stage up to the 2nd level of the pool deck, around the upper level and down the other side stairs, directly to the pool where - yep you guessed it - Patrick jumped in followed by a few crazy souls. What a crazy, great ending to a trifecta of GS shows.
Thanks to BNL and Sixthman for exposing us to another great band that we have fallen in love with.
With the first outdoor show of the night over and a couple of indoor shows next we headed to our cabin to remove some of our layers and have our heavy clothing ready for after the BNL show. First we went to dinner and checked out the merch store (again!). Amy wanted to see what our charges to the room were and even though we have assigned seats for the show Stan was getting anxious about getting to the Sarah McLaughlin show as he was really looking forward to this since she was announced on the cruise. So Stan went to the theater and Amy went to the reception desk and she met him in the theater. She made it by the 8:30 start time and as usual, with just about everything on board, the show was late and Amy didn’t miss a thing. On my way to the theater, before the show started, Stan noticed a sign that made him both excited and bummed at the same time. The late night shows on the pool deck have been moved indoors to Bar City. So Yeah! We won’t freeze tonight but at the same time the new venue is quite small and the late night jam finale is a big event. All of our heavy clothing planning was for naught. Sarah’s set started at about 8:40 and it was amazing! Obviously she sang and played guitar on some songs and piano on the others. She was backed by Tyler and Jim from BNL and Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet. Sarah also asked Butterfly Boucher to sing on 2 songs. Did we say it was fantastic??!?!
With Sarah’s show over and at least 45 minutes before BNL, we headed up to our cabin to get rid of our heavy clothing since we will not be going outdoors anymore tonite. We made it back in plenty of time for BNL and they started their set about 10:15 and of course it was great. At the time we did not realize that this would be the last time that we would be seeing Steven Page playing in the Barenaked Ladies.
The show ended and we headed over to Bar City for The Odds then Acid Wish’s All-Star Jam. As expected the place was packed. We managed to squeeze our way to the left of the stage probably about 8-10 rows back in the standing room only floor. As the night went on and the hour getting later more people started to leave and we kept moving up as expected. By the time the show ended we were in about row 1½. At around 3:40AM during a raucous version of the Proclaimers “I Will Walk 500 miles”, the power went out. Ed made a sign saying they “blew a circuit and they were working on fixing it“, however we have a feeling that Norwegian were not working real hard to get it fixed. The remaining performers would have none of the silence and urged the crowd to continue the “na na na na na, na na na” part of the song. After about 10 minutes of this you could tell we were just about done for the night. Then all of a sudden someone started to sing the ending to “Hey Jude”.
Still with no power, the guys on stage leading the sing along about 100 more times, they finally ended the last refrain of “Hey Jude” making a perfect end to the cruise…well that is until the audience decided they were gonna be the ones to say when the jam/cruise was over. A few audience members started singing Hey Jude again then the voices carried from audience member to audience member like a wild fire before every member of the audience was singing. By now the guys on stage just stood there in amazement as we continued. The guys on stage then took our lead and started again playing whatever percussion instrument they could find. Then after what seemed like another 100 times of Hey Jude it was over. 4:10AM and we were done. WOW! We stuck around for a few minutes seeing all the guys say goodbye to each other and then we made our way up to the garden café once more for a late night, now early morning snack. This time it only consisted of a few glasses of water and ice tea and some cookies we had in our room. We went to bed a 4:30 to get some sleep and get up around 8 to pack and grab breakfast before disembarkation.What a long a wonderful day!
Monday, March 30, 2009
Day 4- videos part V
Here is the 5th and final installment of videos from Day 4 - Wednesday.
This is also the last part of Ed's songwriter's panel. As the previous posts these are all in order of how they were played and these are not every song but only the ones we taped.
Enjoy!
Chris Murphy - Set In Motion
Alan Doyle - Newfoundland History
Alan Doyle - Belong
Brian MacMillan - Let The Darkness Go
Psycho Killer - Ed Robertson Songwriter finale
This ends of the videos from the songwriters panels from Day 4 Wednesday.
Next will be Day 5 - Thursday's blog - our last full day on the cruise.
This is also the last part of Ed's songwriter's panel. As the previous posts these are all in order of how they were played and these are not every song but only the ones we taped.
Enjoy!
This ends of the videos from the songwriters panels from Day 4 Wednesday.
Next will be Day 5 - Thursday's blog - our last full day on the cruise.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Day 4 - videos part IV
Here is the 4th installment of videos from Day 4 - Wednesday.
This is also the first of 2 parts of Ed's songwriter's panel. As the previous posts these are all in order of how they were played and these are not every song but only the ones we taped.
Enjoy!
Ed Robertson - songwriter's panel intro
Ed Robertson - You Can Count On Me - new song
Mike Evin - If You Were My Girl
Butterfly Boucher - I Can't Make You Love Me
Chris Murphy - Set In Motion
end part 4.
Stay tuned for part 5 - the finale.
This is also the first of 2 parts of Ed's songwriter's panel. As the previous posts these are all in order of how they were played and these are not every song but only the ones we taped.
Enjoy!
end part 4.
Stay tuned for part 5 - the finale.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Day 4 - videos part III
Here is the 3rd installment of videos from Day 4 - Wednesday. These are continuing where we left off with Steve's songwriter's panel. Once again these are all in order of how they were played and these are not every song but only the ones we taped.
Enjoy!
Luke Doucet - I Wish I Was American
Steven Page -The New Sad
John K Samson - Sounds Familiar
John Darnielle - See America Right
Boothby Graffoe - short song - finale
end part 3.
This also ends Steven's songwirter's panel.
Next up - Ed's Songwriter's panel.
Enjoy!
end part 3.
This also ends Steven's songwirter's panel.
Next up - Ed's Songwriter's panel.
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