Passing the Time Aboard the Royal Princess

Well, you know that somebody just had to sing "Morning After" by Maureen McGovern from the "Poseidon Adventure. And, of course, there was the ever-popular song from "Titanic," "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion, my sister Julie's favorite performer.

They did. Would have joined along, but didn't know the words, except for "There's got to be a morning after" which I joined in loud and strong.

I only saw one guy sort of lose his cool when he yelled back to the girl in charge when she repeated the same thing for the nth time, "Why don't you just KEEP QUIET unless you have something new to tell us!!!"

I would have sung "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," but, alas, also didn't know the words and the weather wasn't quite the same.

We did talk with a couple of crew members. One was a girl from South Africa who had been on cruise ships for ten years, and never had a situation like this. Another guy from England had recently graduated from college there and had joined the crew to see the world for awhile before getting a job on land.

I talked with a man from England in the Muster area about World War I and World War II, especially since so many veterans from WW II are dying now, and we're down to less than a handful of WW I vets, including two from England and one from the US.


The poor crew had to wear life preservers for four hours straight and that had to be hot. Thankfully, they let the passengers take them off after a short time. Some folks used the battery light on them to provide some light in the rooms.

Can Anyone Think of Another Good Ship Disaster Song? --RoadDog