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Wednesday, Jan. 5:
The ship visited the town of Ocho Rios, Jamaica, but Kim and I mostly sat it out. Few of the things to do sounded worth the money to us, and the one that was most tempting (walking up a pretty series of waterfalls) sounded potentially unwise for her uterus and my knee. We had a relaxing morning, and after lunch we walked out maybe a quarter mile onto the island just to say we'd been there. (And it sounds like we didn't miss much: most people seemed to agree that it was the least interesting port of call.)
The JoCo show for the day started with Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett from RiffTrax doing their MST3K treatment of a couple of short instructional films: Shake Hands with Danger (construction site safety) and Drawing for Beginners: The Rectangle. (They were joined by Peter Sagal, who got some good lines.) After that, Molly Lewis played a good set of songs with her ukulele. After that, Mike Phirman came out and did some music and some standup comedy (much of it simultaneous) that was a lot of fun. He ended right on time at 7:30... and then suddenly the RiffTrax guys came out along with John Hodgman to do one last short (about making crafts with grasses), followed by a big group singalong of a generic national anthem, "Our Nation's Better Than Yours". In other words, we ran way over time, but it was fun.
We had another pleasant dinner with some neat people (new ones again: I liked that), and then Kim and I both went to the game room for a bit. I played a game of "Back to the Future", a substantially simplified variant of Chrononauts based on the movie trilogy (simpler to play, but still fun and probably much easier to learn). It was fun chatting about the design of the game with the founder of Looney Labs, too; she's pretty cool. After that, Kim headed to bed; I stayed up to watch folks play Rock Band for a little bit, but I joined her pretty soon.
Video evidence: Bits and pieces from the show: Molly Lewis singing "Road Trip" (it's the only video of her show that I've found so far; not my very favorite of her songs, but still fun), Mike Phirman's show (with bonus excitement when the camera falls from the balcony, happily failing to hit anyone), or perhaps better, Phirman's standup bits and his music, and My Country's Better Than Yours. (Also, I just added a video of Molly Lewis singing at JoKaraoke to the previous day's video list.)
Wednesday, Jan. 5:
The ship visited the town of Ocho Rios, Jamaica, but Kim and I mostly sat it out. Few of the things to do sounded worth the money to us, and the one that was most tempting (walking up a pretty series of waterfalls) sounded potentially unwise for her uterus and my knee. We had a relaxing morning, and after lunch we walked out maybe a quarter mile onto the island just to say we'd been there. (And it sounds like we didn't miss much: most people seemed to agree that it was the least interesting port of call.)
The JoCo show for the day started with Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett from RiffTrax doing their MST3K treatment of a couple of short instructional films: Shake Hands with Danger (construction site safety) and Drawing for Beginners: The Rectangle. (They were joined by Peter Sagal, who got some good lines.) After that, Molly Lewis played a good set of songs with her ukulele. After that, Mike Phirman came out and did some music and some standup comedy (much of it simultaneous) that was a lot of fun. He ended right on time at 7:30... and then suddenly the RiffTrax guys came out along with John Hodgman to do one last short (about making crafts with grasses), followed by a big group singalong of a generic national anthem, "Our Nation's Better Than Yours". In other words, we ran way over time, but it was fun.
We had another pleasant dinner with some neat people (new ones again: I liked that), and then Kim and I both went to the game room for a bit. I played a game of "Back to the Future", a substantially simplified variant of Chrononauts based on the movie trilogy (simpler to play, but still fun and probably much easier to learn). It was fun chatting about the design of the game with the founder of Looney Labs, too; she's pretty cool. After that, Kim headed to bed; I stayed up to watch folks play Rock Band for a little bit, but I joined her pretty soon.
Video evidence: Bits and pieces from the show: Molly Lewis singing "Road Trip" (it's the only video of her show that I've found so far; not my very favorite of her songs, but still fun), Mike Phirman's show (with bonus excitement when the camera falls from the balcony, happily failing to hit anyone), or perhaps better, Phirman's standup bits and his music, and My Country's Better Than Yours. (Also, I just added a video of Molly Lewis singing at JoKaraoke to the previous day's video list.)
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Jamaica is usually pretty cheap as far as places in the Caribbean go, but I guess the local economy may not have much relevance to cruise activity charges...
Also, found you! http://www.flickr.com/photos/randal-schwartz/5357970450/in/set-72157625704781083/ near the aisle towards the back. There might be a better one somewhere else, though, I only glanced at a couple days on that site so far.
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A lot of the advertised activities at this particular Jamaican location were various levels of "dolphin encounters", which I think US tourists can be charged arbitrarily much for (and which for me are tinged with some moral discomfort). Most of the rest were very "active" in one way or another (e.g. rafting, bobsledding, a zipline) that made us uneasy given Kim's pregnancy and/or my knee. And yeah, cruiseline shore excursion prices would probably go higher in an expensive location, but they don't get especially low in a cheap one.
Incidentally, you may or may not have noticed that the travel agency's official photographer is a guy named Randal Schwartz, who I'm told knows a little bit about Perl.