Blackout day

So once in a while it seems (this is the first since ive been here) we have something called a blackout day, this is where they have to do something to the ship that means all the power (well most of it, generators still work) has to be turned off.

Well im not exactly sure what they had to do, but whatever it is, we had a day on the ship with pretty much no power and darkness! This meant such fun things like at dinner time there was no cooked food, cause of no power so they sandwiches that were out were nice, but you could hardly see what the options to have on them were cause it was so dim in the dinning room!

This of course also inspired silly games and such! Water fighting was a big part of this :) For my birthday i was sent a couple of water guns, and Tommy has one also which i was able to borrow, so me and a couple of Aussies had a little amusement with them :) We found a perfect spot on one of the top decks that you could squirt people that were coming back to the ship from!

Not really sure how it was connected to darkness but just before the lights came back on we found ourselves lying on the floor playing some game where our arms were entwined!

It was impressive how inventive people, there were groups of people all around the ship huddled around security lights playing cards and such!

So we were enjoying ourselves so much in the dark (and the prospect of it being really really dark later) we actually booed when the lights and power came back on!