Stepped out into Russia for the first time…

Stepped out into Russia for the first time…

I was asked to fill in for the Cruise Director as a tour escort to
Catherine's Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. I was super stoked
about it, because it was an awesome tour, but it ended with the State
Orchestra ensemble playing a concert in the grand hall. Here is the
story as I lived it:

It was a warm June evening. And by evening (at 7:30pm local
time) the sun was shinning like it was a summer day at noon in
Florida. Ellery (the ship's social hostess) and I went through
customs, which when you have the proper documents is surprisingly
easy. They looked at my passport, my tour ticket, my face, my
passport, my face, my ticket, said "ship name", my face…. (Still
face…), then stamped 15 different things that I gave them, then said
next as coldly as a Soviet-era military person would act towards an
American citizen I presume. So once outside of the customs area, we
walked onto sacred land. As you know I have been here about 22 times
and I have never been allowed to leave the ship. That sucks. So as I
stepped by awesome "Moods of Norway" Black and blue leather shoes onto
USSR soil it was totally awesome. We walked towards the 6 buses that
were waiting for the 200+ guests that were signed up to attend. So as
we guided them to the buses, Ellery went with the first bus, I went
with the second, Heidi (The ship's assistant cruise director) went
with the third, and Pinky (Guest service specialist) went with the
fourth.

It was an hour-long bus ride to the palace. Needless to say at
this point in the day, warm, wearing a suit with vest, a bit
de-hydrated the narcolepsy kicked in and I passed out for the bus
ride. Amazing! Once we got there the 4 of us met up and decided what
we were going to do. It was a private tour that only our people were a
part of and it was one place that we were allowed to walk, so there
was no way anyone and going to get side tracked or lost. So Heidi,
Ellery and myself went with one of the groups and just did the
touristy bits (FB photos are available). I took over 200 photos and
took some videos, but I aint paying to post that many photos.

The tour was awesome. The amber room was magnificent. And the
grand hall with the orchestra was utterly amazing. The room was a
perfect example of acoustics. The sound carried in a way that
engineers only dream of making a room sound. No matter the
technologies that come our way, how good their 'ear' is, nothing will
sound the way this room with this ensemble sounded. They played songs
from Baroque to Blues, and they were phenomenal. I had a glass of
champagne, the sun's final rays (its 11pm at this time by the way) at
my back, several beautiful woman standing next to me, and I wasn't
working on the ship at night. It's the first time I have felt normal
in a long time.

It was so much fun and once we got back the Cruise Director, Heidi,
Ellery, and myself had dinner with all the other guests in one of the
restaurants. AMAZING. My team is truly amazing, and I am stoked to
be working with them.

Much love my America. I miss starbucks. I miss you all

Chadillac – "a sweet ride"

South Hemisphere

Hello Northern Hemisphere!!!!
 
 
  Well it’s been 12 days since my last post, and quite a few things are happening.  I have crossed the equator, and I will be crossing the International Date Line tomorrow; going into the future.  The 21st of January will no longer be applicable to me for eternity.   I have been in Bora-Bora most recently.  It was awesome.  Best. Beach. EVER.  The water was 4 different shades of blue, the people were slow and the food/drinks were obscenely over-priced.  And I got sunburn to boot, but it was amazing.  Check face book for pictures.  Before that we were in Tahiti, which was also lovely. It’s basically the same on all the islands.  Great water, great views, but same stuff everywhere, and everything is crazy overpriced.  
 
  So yesterday we were supposed to stop at a place called Roatonga, Cook Islands.  The weather was too bad for us to stop though, so now we are on our way to New Zealand.  We will arrive on the 25th.  There is a Mac store there I am told, so I know where I am going J We spend the next 13 days in New Zealand at different ports, then Tasmania, then we arrive in Sydney on Feb 5th.  I can’t wait to get off and get to the Opera House.  It should be AMAZING!  
 
   Well I will update again when I get to New Zealand.  Wait for pics!!!
 
Love and miss you all
 
Chadillac
 
 

Code Alpha

Day 4 of the Pacific Ocean. I don’t know where the earth begins and space ends. It’s a vast, endless, hot mess of water. Blue-ish purpley water that is thrashing about with white caps. Its like being in a party cup of Heineken at a keg party.

It has been quite busy. Between gym, lectures, shows, rehearsals, etc., I haven’t slept a whole lot. The first port day I am going to be sleeping ALL. DAY. LONG. For shizzle. But that is 3 more days away. We are smack in the middle of the pacific headed to Tahiti. I am so looking forward to these new places, and things that I have never experienced.

No crazy drama lately, its pretty chill while we are on the crossing, so not a lot to share with regard to that. But I do have a girlfriend now, so THAT IS AWESOME. ☺ Anyway, I am in a lecture right now, so I should probably pay attention.

Holler

Chadillac

The day the music killed someone…

So children. It’s been a VERY interesting 3 days. It was Christmas, obviously, and that means more than imaginable amounts of work. COPIOUS amounts of work. So I have slept little, and worked A LOT. I’m going to Tarintino the story of how I almost killed a guy…

AHHH AHHHHA AHHAHHHH AHHAHHHH OH MY GOOODD AHHHH!!!! STOP THE SHOW!!! CALL 911!!!!! This is what we hear at the end of the third song during the main production show for the evening. So I go out to see what A clown I am going to have to punch in the mouth because they have disrupted my show…lo and behold my nemesis..having a panic attack

Lets go back…lets go back to the beginning. First sea day of the cruise I am running sound for a lecture. And you can probably imagine what that entails. Setting up screens for power point. Getting a headset mic on the lecturer, having some soft-ish background music for the walk in, etc. So we get started and during these lectures if they are terrible or if I have heared them before (in this case I had heared this lecture 2 times before this, because the lectruere has been on since I returned; GREAT guy, his wife is awesome, they are a really cool couple. Both Dr’s of history and professors at Universities in Philly) so I am just surfing facebook or something and this guy walks from row 3…ROW THREE…of the theatre to my booth and says that his “talking is too loud”. His “speaking voice” (which for us audio people it was comfortably a 68dB at the MOST) was just loud enough to carry to the back of the room. So I was cordial enough this time. I mean I do a lot of things on this ship, and even if I wasn’t paying attention to the particular event that was happening, I am STILL running sound, and that is my number one priority on the ship. DON’T EVER come up to me and tell me how to do my job when you don’t the foggiest damn idea how to do it. So I said, “I’ll have a look at it, Chief” yes I literally said Chief, and he left. ANYWAY, so that was episode I in this Star Wars saga of Epic oldness. NUMBER TWO TIME..

Third show of the ruise Christmas eve special show. High energy, fairly loud, made to make people clap, bob their heads, what have you… So the head of entertainment literally got off the ship 2 days before these incidents started occurring and he was more than happy with the levels and mix of the shows. This also happened to be the show that I was singing Mary Did you know. I digress, we get to the 3rd of 4th number and the house is packed. Towards the end of the 3rd number, old baby ears McGee does that old person sun. You know (he has a cane by the way) its like speed walking with a cane and a limp and they move the cane faster to give the impression that they are moving faster, but they aren’t…you know? That’s what I see out of my peripheral. Then it happened…. BOOM BOOM BOOM. This old – ear muffs – punched, yes PUNCHED my wall in front of me and goes ‘Its too GD loud, I cant believe how loud it is you son of a bitch. Im leaving”. NOW.. you don’t talk to , interrupt, speak around, clap near, or even make eye contact in the middle of a song that an engineer is mixing. (45 channels being used by the way) THIS. WILL. INFURIATE. THEM. And lets top it off with cursing at them. I took my hands of the board and said in the calmest way possible(which included a SNL-type wave) “BYE BYE THEN” he stormed off as 3 rows..YES THREE ROWS of guests (im talking about 15 people) watched this Stars wars episode 2 saga of unpleasant a**holism and looked and me and said what an A**hole. A bah humbug if you will. All these guests were on my side, and I gave them the look of high five me for your acknowledgement and they did it with their eyes. I had so much adrenaline pumping through me that I was even MORE nervous about singing a song that I hadn’t done in 5 years. Thanks old d-bag, now I am going to puke out my guts on stage. Awesome.

This concludes episode 2. Stay tuned for episode 3, the conclusion of “a tale of a guy who needs to just die already”

Im going to turn from the story for a minute to say that I now understand why the other people on board want to drink non stop every day, all day.


AND NOW EPISODE 2 and a half through 3

So after the Christmas show, I told the Cruise Director about this guy, and somehow this guy just so he knew that there was an issue with a guest and how unpleasant he was being. Next day.. I didn’t sleep but 2 hours. The girl that I really like was leaving and so I was helping her pack all night so that she would just sleep on the plane home to London. So Its Christmas day, and the day was pleasant enough. No issues, no problems, had probably 3 hours off that day which I used for the gym cause I was sad that the girl had left, did the shows, no incidents. All good. I thought that the guy wouldn’t be back. OH HOW WRONG I WAS… next day, yesterday, he shows up to the morning lecture. Same ol same ol. I get background music on, guy comes up to the booth and is trying to be all “sane” now and is like “I have really sensitive hearing, I don’t think that the lecturer even needs a microphone” and I said to him, very condescendingly, “yes he does because they get video taped for showing to other guests (“who aren’t F holes” – added for this stories purposes) to watch in their cabins” “ well me and my wife we just cant stand it” I said . “ok” and I walked to the other side of the booth to pretend to make a phone call. He walked away. He came back to the booth a second time during the lecture to AGAIN complain about the sound. This guy was dancing the mother freaking samba on my last good will. Again, I ignored him, because I don’t want to go to Interpol jail for murdering someone in international waters. After the lecture, the lecturer (Dr. McDonald – who is the coolest dude) was like “if this a@@hole comes up to the booth again Im going to punch him. He shouldn’t be talking to you like that, and its distracting me.” So Dr. M gets mad respect for that little quip there.


mid day….

I get an email from the Cruise Director saying “ he talked to the guy for like 20 minutes about the sound” “please keep the levels at a nominal place” this is less than a week after I was told by the head of entertainment, my boss and the cruise director, my boss to make everything louder. So I said I would work on it during rehearsals. So I brought it down marginally… a “DFA” type job if you will.

SHOW TIME THAT SAME DAAAAAAyyyyyYYYYYyy…

Exterior. A cranky old man with a cane, with disheveled hair, and a crazy look in his eye walks in and takes his rightful place at the back of the room. I see him and grimace. My boss, the Cruise Director comes over and says, well he told me earlier that he would wear earplugs. I heard that and loaded my normal show (Yamaha M7) song number 3 getting towards the end and the first paragraph occurred in real-time. The guy eventually walked out on his own feet, but it was the most attention-seeking stunt I have ever seen in my life. So that ended, and after show the cast, myself, the 2 awesome lecturers were having drinks and all we did was bemoan this old cranky a clown who has made life unbearable at this point on the ship. So that’s how I almost killed a guy with sound. Fun, no?

Until next time kiddies, don’t try and upper decker on your own toilet. You will be sad.

Chadillac

CHRISTMAS!!!

Well folks…it’s that time of year again. It just really has gone by. This year has taught me numerous things. I have grown in ways that I didn’t think were possible. I have also been immersed in a way of life that I didn’t think I could be around, and still keep my moral compass aligned, but somehow with God’s help I have been all right. This past year, I lost 70 pounds. I am in the gym everyday now. I eat better. I am constantly active. I have seen half of the world. I have seen more of the world that most people will in their whole lives, and I am not even 30 yet.

In just 4 short months I will have traveled the world. THE WORLD. How many people can say that they have literally traversed the entire globe? Not many. I will join that elite band of people soon. It is a lot of sacrifice though with being so far away from home, and me with my VERY unhealthy fear of flying. God-forbid that there is an emergency back home, cause I wouldn’t be able to get back.

I have been trying to get back into dating. That term literally has no meaning on board this ship though. There isn’t a way to date someone. So my whole M.O. for dating that I have used in the past is enviable and I have to come up with something else.

Other than that things are great. Meeting new people, seeing new places, about to begin the world cruise, so it’s going to stressful and super busy.

I love and miss you all on this Christmas day. I cant wait to see you all again soon.

Chadillac

Sea Day 2 / Cruise #3

Well its about that time for another segment in the “Where in the world is Chadillac at”? The answer is: just southwest of Cuba, and a days sail from Cartagena, Columbia. I look forward to NOT dying or being kidnapped there so I will probably get off the ship for about a minute just to say I was in South America for the first time ever. But that place is shady, and again…I LIKE LIVING. (Sorry Columbians, but your country scares me) ANYWAY – today started like any other…

I awoke at 4:40am not knowing where I was. Once I realized that I was in my bed passed out, in my clothes, with my remote in had, I understood what happened. The Narco episode hit me like a freight train, and I thought it was still like midnight. SO, as I punched my wall because my plans for the pervious night were all for naught, now I am awake and need to vent. So early gym session it is. 46 minutes of running…600 calories …and then about 50 crunches, and 50 pushups. Nice way to start the day. PLUS when I was in Puerto Rico I got a “Belly-buster” belt thing. Its like wearing saran-wrap on your stomach as you work out. IT’S AWESOME. It burns more calories through thermal heat. So it gets hot. I basically just told you what you already knew. So it was like 7:30 when I got done, so I had some cheerios for breakfast, and a yogurt. Then I came to strike the stage from last nights show before this mornings lecture. I will have the afternoon off today, so I will be relaxing, maybe go to the top deck so I can get some sun. My tan is wearing off.

Well that’s about all I got for now. I will post new pics on FB when we get to Columbia. If you aren’t my friend, then go to www.facebook.com/chadstonemusic and add me as a friend.

From the water, LOVE LOVE LOVE

Chadillac

Cubans always be swimmin'

Well it’s about that time of the week…to update my blog that is.

I performed my awesome version of IRIS this past week for the variety show. And tomorrow my colleague Daniel and I will be doing a version of High & Dry. It’s originally by Radio Head, but closer to Jamie Cullum’s version. It should be good. We have a guest pianist on tonight, so his rehearsal is at 5, and then after his rehearsal is over, I’m going to get my practice on.

Anyway, we arrive at Isla Catalina, Dominican tomorrow, and I really wont be going to the beach….TILL ONE O CLOCK!!! HAHAHAHA I’m still going!! But I have to do inventory with my co-worker Adam in the morning. Boo. PLUS I have an 8am hair appointment. So my day shall be long. Looking forward to a quiet day at our NEXT port which is St. Johns (part of the US). It has one of the worlds top rated beaches- Trunk Bay. I CANT WAIT. Well folks, that’s all for now. More as we end this cruise and start the Christmas/New Years cruise

Ciao!

Chadillac

Another day in the Caribbean…

Its my birthday and I’ll party on private Islands if I want to…

Hello from the Lesser Antilles Islands (google it) We were at a place called Isla Catalina. It’s basically a deserted island that ships go to, its like a state park, but its an island. It’s really cool. I think its part of the Dominican. See face book pictures.

I have taken this week off from the gym. Its been good. My muscles needed time to heal. I will begin my regimen this coming week, along with a 7-day detox. Its time to hunker down and get these last 30 LBS off; get my toning on.

Even though its Christmas, I am nowhere where really good food will be. So I have no excuse, or reason to eat bad this holiday season. Which is freaking sad, because I want my grandmas green-bean casserole. I WANT IT!!! And I want a white Christmas. I think the only white I will see, is my tan-less skin, and the white sands of Cabo San Lucas. We will literally be transiting the Panama Canal on Christmas day. So it will be hot, and muggy. NOT looking forward to that. We have two more sea days, and then back to Ft. Lauderdale. Where I of course will be frequenting that Starbucks that is right next to where we dock. Then I may get a cab this time, because I need to hit up a Wal-Mart and the closet one is like a 10-minute cab ride away. We leave from Ft. Lauderdale on the 10th for one more 10-day Caribbean cruise, and then it’s westward to California; which of course leads all the way to London.

Had a great birthday today. Thank you to everyone who FB’d, emailed, texted me. I love all of you greatly, and am sad that I am away from my friends and family back home. But it’s now or never. Miss all of you back home. Send me Christmas stuff!!! Just send it to my dads!

LOVE LOVE LOVE
Chadillac

The only GYM I'll ever be inside of...

Hello Folks! (picture is of Nicola and Kate being retarded)

Just returned from the Gym. Or as ALL of the foreigners on board this ship refer to it as a singular entity, and say "I'm going to gym" like "gym" is a verb or something. ANYWAY (no S please), Now I have about 3 hours off before tonights show, so I may just keep on trucking with the song writing train. I wrote a new song last week, and Im still tweaking it up, but I am happy with it. Its called Carolina. It is referring to the place, not a person. I know Im always writing songs about chicks, but you know thats me, and Im good at it. Im trying to get to some real songwriting though.

I also heard back from my friend Josh Moore, who is an amazing producer, and I am going to be spending some time in Houston recording a legit album with him once my time with Seabourn is up. Hence the reason I am getting some new songs together, for the album. WOO_freaking_HOO!!!

We get to Puerto Rico tomorrow, and I am getting off the ship. Regardless of what happened last time I was there (refer to earlier post "San Juan, Puerto Rico) This time, I am synchronizing my time(s) with the ships clock before I walk off, plus I am only going to get lunch, then hit up STARBUCKS!!! (-ed note BEST. COMPANY. EVER) then find a hardware store cause I need some drill bits for our stage. Tomorrow should be a relatively light day. Which, coincidentally, are my favorite days. Coldplay dropped a Christmas single you should all go and buy it like there is no tomorrow. Its a Christmasy rainbow slap in the face of awesome. Thats about the only way to describe it. Well my many, many followers. Till the next post. HOLLER!

LOVE LOVE LOVE

Chadillac

USA USA USA

AHHH... I love starbucks. HATERS!!!! Iced White Mocha is the shizzle-bizzle. I am enjoying a fresh breath of air in Ft Lauderdale, enjoying my coffe and cursing at my computer because it wont connect to the iTunes iPhone server for me to update my OS to 4.2, so this day of relaxing awesomeness has turned into satans sweaty scrote punching me in the face. Descriptive enough? So as I sit here hoping in vain to connect to the iTunes store I am filling my body with a caffeine equivalent of a syringe of adrenaline injected straight into the heart. WOOOOO Well i'll try to update again this week children.

Holler at your boyeee

chadillac

rant

I don’t understand why people think that it is their job to tell me how to do my job ESPECIALLY when they have no idea WTF they are talking about!!! I mean, I was hired to do a job. That job was facilitated by ONE man who made the sound design the way that the COMPANY wanted it. I have to stay as close to that as possible to avoid lawsuit-i-ness. So it seems that some people on board don’t undertand this concept. I literally love loud music. LOVE THE POOP OUT OF IT. But at my FOH position its too loud. Hitting 102 dB, with an average of 98dB. The average age of our guests is Moses’ cousin. These peeps are ready to die any second and I am rock concerting their ear holes.

And to anyone who understands the basic principles of sound engineering, you cant just turn the stupid master volume up to make it “louder” the mix becomes total crap. You absolutely have to re-mix everything at the new decibel level. This is not an easy task when there is 15 minutes to show time and each scene has already been mixed and saved at its proper mix level. UGH. This show will sound BEEEEEEzarre.

Now I am eating peanut M&M’s. DOUBLE FRICK! I don’t need the calories, but I am stressed out. I cant wait for Ft Lauderdale, and 6 hours off the ship to get things I need and enjoy some starbucks!!!!!!!!! YEAH STARBUCKS!!!!!!

That is all for now. Show was weird. Im going to sleep; long day tomorrow. PEACE

Chadillac

Deserted Island of the Caribbean

Hello children of the corn-i-copia.

GREETINGS FROM CATALINA ISLAND. It is a dismal dreary place filled with clear blue water, boats, skiing, BBQ, caviar, champagne, and terrible island music. Its really dreadful. :-p Seriously though. All of that is going on about 300 yards from me, and guess who has to stay on board to show a gay movie to the rest of the guests who didn’t go ashore….THIS guy. We played hairspray. Now my co-worker and I are doing a rehearsal for tonight’s show. It’s a marionette puppeteer. This better not suck, that’s all I have to say. So im sitting in this rehearsal watching Adam program lighting, cause the guys sound needs is pressing play on a mini disc and letting it auto play for 50 minutes. I will be taking a nap during the show.

So we have two sea days in a row before we get back to Ft. Lauderdale. I will be hitting up Starbucks so I can get my new iPad OS downloaded, AND then to Home Deport, or a Lowes cause we are missing drill bits for our sets. And using a ratchet is NOT fun to do. Then perhaps a quick bite at Chili’s or something. I miss that Quesadilla explosion already and we haven’t even begun the world cruise yet. UGH. Maybe Hong Kong will have something similar to my favorite salad… who knows.

Well Im really bored, so maybe I will do some work now. I posted pics on my FB, so look for them. Also, if you aren’t on my FB as a friend, then go to www.facebook.com/chadstonemusic and add me as a friend!!

Miss and LOVE YOU ALL

That is all.

Chadillac

St. John

BLOG-o-sphere!!

Just left St. John (Part of the US Virgin Islands) Thanksgiving, was bleh. Didn’t even get a Thanksgiving meal. Gay. I had Chicken and tomatoes. Well I am back on insanity videos. And my legs are absolutely killing me. Tomorrow we are at a place called Catallina Island. Its literally JUST an island. There is nothing there. So everyone in my department, except me, has to go ashore and help be the Island hosts. HAHAHA. NOT ME. I have things to do on the ship anyway. I am gonna try and get some sunshine on my body tomorrow as well. That’s about it for now. I’ll holler again when we hit Ft. Lauderdale. Ill have more free time that day.

Love you al

Chadillac

San Juan, Puerto Rico

OK. So here's the deal-i-o. Apparently there is a reason behind the fact that Puerto Rico is on another time zone. I dont know what the reason is, or what idiot in a white wig decided it, but there THAT is.

We get to Puerto Rico. HOT & HUMID are understatements. (even though they are just words and not statements; how about "Underwordments") It should be Hell and Brimstone. So I get up at 10am. YEAH SLEEP. Then we had the "Association of guys who audit boats and the way they operate" on board, so we had a crew drill this morning. This consists of simulating fires or Men oerboard or "nuculur bombs", or whatever to test the crews response to an emergency. Thank the good Lord almighty that they only do this after 10am, so we dont disrupt the guests sleepy time. Anyway, so we do the drill, and get that out of the way. Then my co-worker Adam and I had to do some housekeeping to our club stage because it was a chorded nightmare. There were power and microphone cables...EVERYWHERE. Its like a Male Seahorse gave birth to power and microphone cables and the birthing took place on the stage. Get that visual. So that took all of an hour. Then we decided....Time for some Puerto Rican foooood. Mas Bueno. We got off the ship, and I would say we walked about 3 miles and this town looked like that scene from Bad Boys II when they get to Cuba. JUST like that. It was cool. So we just walked past all the touristy places to find some REAL Puerto Rican cuisine. We found this amazing restaurant that had the coolest interior. (Pics to come soon) It was Kate, Nicola, Adam, Myself, and Richard. BEST. MOJITO'S. EVER. Had some Quesadillas con queso y papas fritas, y biztec empanizado y platinos fritos tambien. BUENO BUENO BUENO!!! Dan and Adam joined us at the end of the meal and we had another drink. So it took like 2 hours to get all the food and eat and everything, so we left and started just checking out all the shops and walking through all the side streets, just getting lost in San Juan. At this point Kate and Nic, and me separated so we could continue to check out shops, while the rest of them went to some fort. We finally are getting close to the time we need to be getting back to ship when we come across a shop that sells butterflys. Like embalmed butterflys. weird. But they were displayed in such a way, you felt like you were listening to ANY track from Garden State when you looked at them. I digress, at this point I want to punch Liz Shumate's baby because I want to get going, but the girls cant stop looking at these displays and want to buy stuff. So I keep checking the time and we have like 10 minutes before we need to leave. As I am outside taking photos Kate runs out the door yelling. ITS FIVE O CLOCK NOW THE SHIP IS GOING TO LEAVE US!!!! I hear this and immediately internally vomit forth al that was good and pure about my skills with time. REFER TO BEGINNING STATEMENT OF THIS POST.

We start hauling ass the 1 and a half miles backt o the ship dodging the craziest traffic I have ever been in. We were running through the streets and I was creaming Eye of the Tiger in my head the whole time. As we get closer and closer there are US customs officials and Puerto Ricans officials motioning for us to hurry up. WE WERE RUNNING. We know. Thanks. We round the corner out of the terminal and half the staff and guests are waiting on the outer decks and NO JOKE applaud our running return. This sentiment was not felt by the Chief Security Officer, the Chief Purser, The Captain or the staff captain. We were told the second we walked on that we had to meet with the staff captain for him to decide our fate just two hours later. I also learned that the Purser was ready to give our passports to the local port agent cause the ship was about to leave us. It was quite scary. Basically I will not be using my time ANYMORE when we get off the ship.

It was an eventful last few hours. I had some oatmeal for diner and I am about to go and get a show rehearsal started. Then we have a country themed show in the club tonight. I just want to sleep. That is all for now Pics will some soon.

Love you all

Chaeillac

Day one back...

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Greetings everyone!!

   Well I made it back onto the ship yesterday.  We sail today and head to the Caribbean.  Our first stop is in Puerto Rico, then St. Martin, etc…(for full itinerary details go to: www.seabourn.com)  

  When I boarded yesterday, I had a familiarization training with what to do in case a fire, someone falls over, etc.  I will have more extensive training coming up in the next few weeks.  I didn’t do much of anything yesterday. I saw my friends, and we hung out waaaay too late last night.  I am going to take a 2-hour nap as soon as I finish this blog update.  I am back to gym tonight.  WOO HOO!!!  I can’t wait.  My muscles are starting to atrophy.  ☺  Tomorrow and the following day are both sea days, so I will be going from about 9am till 1am so no picnic for me right of the back, but then we have 5 days in port in a row.  HOLLER!!  Those days will start like this: Sleeping in, checking out the city, and eating some local cuisine.

I think that I am getting sick.  I popped enough vitamin C to take down a Rhino, so I should be ok.  There are a lot of new faces, so I will be making new friends all over the world!  Anyway, pictures to come as soon as we hit somewhere worth taking pictures of. ☺    


Miss you all loads and keep checking back for updates.

Love

Chadillac

Sojourn Idol

If you are not on my face book then you can access the video of me singing my version of "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls. Enjoy.

November 2010

Hello Interwebs!!

Well it’s a random night. I am writing this blog from the couch of my grandparents couch. It’s the night before Jamie and I leave to head back to Tampa. I figured that I need to update this stupid thing a bit. I am going to be getting one of those mini-HD video recorders to take with me this next contract out posting videos of my outings.

My next contract begins on Nov.19th. We will be in the Caribbean for a month. Then December 20th we leave for Los Angeles. We leave Los Angeles Jan 5th and head west. We will reach Fiji first. Then some of the places we will hit over the following 4 months are: Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, India, Dubai, Egypt, Oman, Greece, Italy. These are just a few. My contract ends on April 15th in Rome. Depending on whether or not I join the newest ship we are building will determine if I continue on immediately from April 15th, or if I will get another vacation at that point. So it’s up in the air what I will be doing then. SO. I hope that I get to see as many of you as I can before I leave in the next 23 days. Otherwise it may be a year before I am back in America for a vacation.

I hope that I will also have time to be a little more faithful to blog updates. As you can tell I was slacking off a bit the last few months. That would be because I started getting off at EVERY port and enjoying the crap-sandwich out of the world that I was in. So I wasn’t really apt to sit down and write about where I was, instead I wanted to live it. So the videos that I make should make up for it.

Well all my followers (all one of you) be prepared for Australia, Asia, India, and Africa…cause it will be coming at you video-style.

chadillac

FREEDOM!!

Children.  I am in the UK.  waiting for my cruise home.  I leave in 2 days back to America!!!  IM SOOO EXCITED!!  basically I will be seeing all of you while I am home, so I wont be updating this blog until I return to the ship which will be Nov 19th.

 AMERICA!!!!

Olden, Norway

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Ciao!

Chad Stone

www.myspace.com/chadstone

Olden, Norway

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Ciao!

Chad Stone

www.myspace.com/chadstone