I found one today on the beach!
We are ported in Cozumel on the Elvis Cruise and a few of the staff took a trip to “Isle de Pasion”. The package included a 20 min boat ride on the “Twister” to the island, open bar, an authentic Mexican lunch, water trampolines, paddleboats and comfy beach chairs galore. The “Twister” earned its name from the 180º+ turns it takes at 50mph, that leaves it’s passengers soaked from head to toe, which is ok because the weather is 80ºF and sunny. The island itself is gorgeous – picture the Corona commercials, because that’s where they film them! This sounds like I’m bragging, which I am a bit, but it’s mostly to get you to the part of when I find the “Message in a Bottle”. (This blog is better if you listen to The Police at the same time).
The reason for going wasn’t all for pleasure, about 50/50, and the other half was to figure out if this would be a good place to host some of our guests and artists on future cruises. It is. It’s a good place to take anybody and guarantee them a good time. And this is being there a few days after a hurricane. We’ve been told the water is normally glass and the sand as white as snow. Today it was a bit choppy, which made for a better boat ride, and the sand had been tossed around a bit because of the hurricane winds, still gorgeous though, and certainly nothing to complain about. I decided to go for a walk down the beach to take it all in. That’s when I found it. A “Message in a Bottle”. For real! I picked it up dusted off some of the sea life it acquired and got really excited because I could just barely see the writing inside which seems to be German. Could this be from Germany? Or did someone toss it off a cruise ship yesterday? I’m not sure but we’re going to find out tonight at the staff meeting when we pop it open. It’s been like Christmas morning staring at your presents that you can’t open yet!
Anyways, I wanted to share this with you because A) messages in bottles are pretty cool, B) I wanted to brag a little about my day and C) I have had the song stuck in my head all day! I’ll update you all with what I find inside when we pop it open tonight!
-melissa
