We were entertained

If you've been on a cruise before, you know that the ship provides a variety of entertainment. Every day a copy of the schedule of upcoming events and activities is slid under the cabin door. Here is an example of the activities for one day. There is something for everyone. Gambling and drinking are a part of any cruise for those who want to participate, but it is easy to route around those activities if desired. Princess cruises also offered a series called Scholarship at Sea. It included classes in pottery, ceramics, navigation, photography, art history, culinary, fruit and vegetable carving, ice carving, galley tour, ballroom dancing classes, line dancing class, backstage tours and more. We enjoyed participating in several of these activities.
Mini golf, shuffleboard, basketball and ping pong were also available. They also show movies on a big screen in one of the theaters and they show movies on TVs in each cabin a well throughout the cruise. We enjoyed relaxing and watching a movie or two as well as several old "Love Boat" TV episodes from years ago.
The evening entertainment was wonderful. We found the Comedy Show to be very entertaining, funny and clean in language and innuendo. The evening production shows were well done and entertaining, again with out anything offensive. The production shows almost reminded me of watching a Young Ambassadors performance that included song and dance along with many costume and scenery changes. They did a splendid job entertaining us.
The cruise director was a young man named Peter*Tredgett from England. Besides enjoying listening to his delightful accent, he was well suited for his role and did a great job seeing that everyone was entertained on board.
Although this doesn't necessarily fit under the title of "entertainment" we also attended an Interdenominational Order of Service last Sunday since we were on the ship and had no ability to attend our own services. Cruise director Peter lead the services and he did a wonderful job. We were given a printed copy of hymns and prayers and we participated in singing "Amazing Grace" and "How Great Thou Art." Peter asked a member of the group to stand and read 1 Corinthians 13 on charity. He also read the following message about the Good Life. I thought it was good enough to share here with my readers (click on any of the above pictures to enlarge for reading.) He gave us all something to think about.
Another thing I really enjoyed about the meeting was that at the beginning, Peter invited everyone to stand and greet their neighbor. I'm always inspired by how gracious and kind people are in situations like this. We were all from different backgrounds and religions, yet I believe that most believed in God and Jesus Christ. There were about 35-40 people in attendance and we looked for commonalities rather than differences and we shook hands and said hello to some fellow Christians. Whenever we would introduce ourselves and say that we were from Utah, people would assume that we were Mormons. We had some opportunities to share a little more about our religion.