A Game of Cricket Followed by a Night on the Town

Today I got to experience my first game of cricket. I got a free ticket to the game from Brad, one of the guests. He even kitted me up, that is what they call wearing all the apparel of your team in Australia. I ended up not even sitting by him so I went over to the game with two other guests Brett and Ben also very nice Aussie boys. Probably by the end of the day they were both really annoyed with me asking everything there was to know about cricket. I lasted the whole game though and it was freaking 9am till 6pm. I can’t even imagine going to a baseball game for that long. England in the end took the game against the West Indies, but the game was really close England only won by one point. Instead of innings like in baseball cricket has overs, which one team has 50 overs then the next team bats their 50 overs. Of course there is more to this madness, but that is a start of why it is so confusing, but really I might get it by the end of this cruise.
Brett, Me and Ben

A perfect day is continued by a perfect night. So after the cricket match I had to go back to work for a little while. About 10 of us caught up in the O.B. at about midnight to go out for the night. We went to this place called St. Lawrence Gap which was the happening place to be. Chris, Brad, Cheree, Filip, Ray and I ended up going to this really cool bar that had an awesome band. It was great. After that we ended up cruising the streets and I ran into some of the guys at another place. I walked in like I knew what I was doing, but unfortunately the other guys got stopped, so I had to butter the guy up and have him let the others in. We stayed there for awhile and then decided to head back. Cheree, Ray and I got back to the ship and it was light out, gotta love it. I then went to work 3 hours later.
I just love this picture of Ray. This was at the first club. The band that played was amazing and Ray got inspired to jump on stage and dance with the lead girl. Believe it or not her name was Rachelle, pretty cool I thought.