After our late night out and the abundance of alcohol we had
consumed (including shots from a light up shot glass! (how perfect, right?)
Megan and I deemed it a fantastic idea to go to the 9:00 screen of the MAC DVD.
Neither of us had ever seen it (with the exception of the outtakes) so we
dragged ourselves out of bed, bundled up to a) keep warm in the arctic venue
and b) conceal the fact that we were either still drunk from the night before
or nearing the hangover stage. Our cabin mates had decided not to join us. We
made our way up to the venue where we waltz in and found our seats paying
special attention not to talk to ANYONE. The ship was already swaying, add in
our spinning heads and it was required we sit down immediately. Randy came out and introduced the DVD
and gave us some background knowledge on it. Charlie also made an appearance up
on stage. We unfortunately did not get to see the entire DVD because we had
started it late and the Q&A with the guys was immediately following that.
We were able to view a decent portion of the DVD and watch some of the
hysterical outtakes/bonus features. If you haven’t seen them, you need to
because they are amazing. The DVD was stopped and the venue made the quick
turnover to the Q&A, which only entailed bringing 10 stools onto the stage.
Very sophisticated work, indeed.
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| Credit for this photo goes to Julie Futer |
The Q&A involved David Britz asking the guys questions
that chasers had submitted ahead of time. Things ran quite smoothly and they
also allowed some time for those who had other questions that had not been
previously submitted. Tyler got a lot of flak about how late he had been out
the night before and how someone had to literally drag him out of bed to get to
the Q&A. With every criticism, we felt his pain, as we were in the same
boat as him. (Literally and figuratively) We then got to preview a few songs
from their upcoming CD/Fall Tour. We were politely asked not to film or record
any audio of this portion (logical) but I do feel comfortable telling you that
one of the songs we got to hear that morning was Soldier. (I was ecstatic when
it found it’s way into the set list for the #SNClive tour.) Both songs we got
to hear were very touching and beautifully sung. Many of the chasers in the
audience had tears in their eyes (Megan and myself, included)
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| our napping spot |
After the Q&A concluded, we had some spare time before
the boat actually docked in Cozumel. While we exited the venue, we thought, “Hmm-
there is a wine tasting tonight. I wonder if we can still sign up?” We found
ourselves a nice representative from Rose Tours and asked. She was happy to let
us with the only stipulation being that we had to pay cash. Not a problem, we
both had cash on hand and ready to give her. Well, it was in our room but as
mentioned before our room was only about 8 stairs away from where we were
currently standing. We thought
with our spare time we could wander the boat. This also brought up the
sensitive subject of whether or not Megan and I were even going to leave the
boat in Cozumel. At first we
thought, “Why bother?” then we thought, “We’ll probably get lots of judgment
from people if we don’t.” We decided we would get off the boat, but after that
we had no plan of action what so ever (a recurring theme on this
adventure.) Upon exiting the
boat, we decided to venture around the port. There were plenty of shopping
opportunities, but we found a nice cozy place with beach chairs. That is
exactly where we stayed for approximately 3 hours. Lounging in the warm air
under the shade of a palm tree. It was downright amazing. We were later joined
by Vicky and her sister, Mary Lou who found our idea just as amazing as we did.
What did you do in Cozumel? Oh, I napped for 3 hours under a palm tree. It felt exactly how a vacation should
feel. After all of lounging, we realized that we should probably make our way
back to the boat to get ready for the wine tasting. There wasn’t much getting
ready except we did decide that after the excursion we took the night before
and the plain lack of food in our bodies, we should probably eat something before
ingesting anymore alcoholic beverages. That meal included chicken fingers, a
substantial amount of ice cream, and the occasional French fry but it served
its purpose.
When it was time, we made our way to the wine tasting. It
was in the exact bar we had been the previous night. My how things had come
full circle. We were seated next
to strangers (although, they were clearly chasers) but we naturally made
friends just by being our normal crazy selves. Dave and Sara hosted this event
and since they are a bit of wine connoisseurs, it was quite informative. You
wouldn’t have even known that they themselves had only found out what wines
we’d taste mere moments before they were supposed to educate us on them. A job
well done to them! Most of the time, the format was we would taste a wine and
discuss what flavors we tasted. Some people had such detailed answers.
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| see that red wine? it has a nice hint of yuck to it. |
I must
not have a sensitive palette for this stuff because at one point (red wines and
me do not get a long) the only thing I could say was, “This just tastes like
yuck.” Megan, having a hard time finding the right words of her own to describe
the unfriendly taste, agreed wholeheartedly. While many people around us raved about the fantastic taste
of the red wine, I found myself wondering if I could get another glass of
whatever white wine we had tasted previously. I also spent a lot of time
thinking, “gosh, I hope DR and Sara don’t ask what flavors I taste” if they
had, it would have lead into a nice awkward silence. We escaped the night unscathed and in good spirits. Before
exiting the bar, we stopped to chat with Don. We discussed our time in Cozumel
and how we were pretty positive Mike Luginbill was/is a time traveler (judging
by his mannerism, dance moves, and everything else I witnessed, the only logical
conclusion was the man claiming to be Mike’s father was Mike from the future.) We
also discussed how exhausted we were because we had been out late the night
before. Don asked where we had gone and we pointed around us and said “Here!”
He looked at us with a surprised look and asked, “Did you see Tyler? He was
here.” We responded with, “Yeah, he’s the reason we were here. He told us to
come while we were leaving the improv show.” It then all made sense to him. We
parted ways and went over to chat with DR for a bit. We talked about how we’re
not big wine drinkers but we still had a blast. We also talked about the bottle
of wine we gave him from the Cape Cod Winery. We explained that getting that
had been just a random adventure one day. He said he loves doing things like
that, just going to a local winery and trying things out.
We left the bar to find Jenn and Tara waiting outside. It
was time to head over to dinner. We really weren’t all that hungry but we
figured we mind as well go and be social. Dinner is always a fun time, despite
the fact that we sat with complete and utter strangers. We obviously made the
best of it. During the meal, the wait staff put on a show with singing and
dancing and all sorts of craziness.
After dinner this night, Dexter, our waiter from the first night, sought
out Megan and I. Apparently, he missed us. He proceeded to tell Megan that the
following night (the last night of the cruise) he was going to dance for her.
This made for all sorts of laughter. Oh Dexter, you’re a crazy man.
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| Photo by: Julie Futer |
After dinner was Mike and Jerome’s show but we were able to
catch a quick catnap before it started. We’d been looking forward to this for a while. The show was
amazing. There were some special guests on stage with Mike and Jerome. Tyler,
Seggie, and Ryan joined them up on stage. As well as our new friend Joel, who
was so excited when we told him we’d be at this show, and Austin from the Left
Over Cuties. I can’t gush enough about how much fun this show was. Even though
it didn’t even start until 12:30 in the morning our catnap had helped and we
thoroughly enjoyed every moment. I’m truly envious and in awe about how
musically talented all of these guys are. (A Cappella or otherwise)
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| Blake (Photo by: Julie Futer) |
When the
show ended, we were all standing around chatting with one another. We found our
way over to Blake; it’s always an interesting and hilarious chat when we get to
hang out with him. He showed off his wrestling mask that Charlie had bought him
while we were in Cozumel. It was truly terrifying but so fitting for Blake.
After Blake left, Jerome had made his way out to where we were all
standing. We started discussing
random things, like his hatred for Hyannis Sound (which is still so weird to
me) and someone brought up the website pinterest. Apparently there is a picture
floating around of him and he had no knowledge of its existence. Some chasers
had found this picture and that lead to a hysterical conversation about
pinterest. Jerome kept calling it “pin-interest”. We tried multiple times to
correct him but we eventually just gave up. We took this opportunity to bring
up a concern of ours to Jerome. We asked him if he twitter stalks us because he
always tells us things like, “you never mentioned you’d be here” “I didn’t see
you mention anything about that” or,
“all you ever talk about is Hyannis Sound.” He playfully nodded and said
“Yeah I do!” We pulled ourselves away from Jerome for a moment so that we could
go quickly converse with Mike and Joel. We wanted to make sure we told them how
much we enjoyed the show. They were grateful for the kind words but being as it
was so late, we were all a bit eager to soon be sleeping so we kept our
conversations short and sweet.
Upon leaving the venue, just when we thought the night was
over, we got the urge to go run amok on this ship. We made our way to top deck
so that we could go look out at the stars and look out onto the ocean. There
wasn’t a whole lot to see when looking out to the ocean though, as everything
was pitch black. After our
escapades on the top deck, we were told that there was a deck (and I want to
say it was deck 2 but I could be wrong) that you could go to the very front of
the boat and look out. Even though we knew it would be SUPER dark and we
probably wouldn’t be able to see anything, we wanted to go check it out
anyways. It was VERY windy and the doors were heavy and hard to keep open. We
didn’t spend too much time out there exploring but the time that was spent was
full of laughter. Upon entering the ship, we heard a woman’s voice asking if
there was anyone else out there. My first instinct was that we were getting in
trouble. That, fortunately was not the case, it was just another person on the
boat wondering if her son was out gallivanting with us because she thought she
heard his voice. He was not with us so we were off the hook. We took this as a
cue to head to our room and rest up for the next day’s adventures, it was going
to be a LOOONNNGGG day.
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