As of yesterday (wednesday), I will not be in Canada until February 11th. Today we were in Bar Harbour, and we now slowly make our way back down to New York for Sunday, before beginning our 12 day repositioning cruise down to Miami.

I spent the day yesterday in St John mostly just trying to take it whatever ounce of Canadiana I could from the city, before before leaving Canadian soil until next year. The rest of the day was predictable for a Wednesday, with two South Beach Rave production shows and a Tina Turner tribute which went very well. That was followed by hanging out late night at the ship's 24 hour Americana comfort-food semi-fast-food restaurant with a passenger from New York who is accompanying the ship's cover band for the two weeks that he is onboard. 

Today I didn't have any time to get off the ship because of a badly timed sound check, as well as a training session on crowd control, which sounds a lot more horrendous than it actually was. The safety instructor who trained us was an intense but hilarious English guy who actually made some sense of why we're required to do all of this training, with the perfectly valid point that since we're crew we would be required to take on certain leadership duties in the events of an emergency, which was given more credibility by a couple videos from the last couple decades of ship based disasters which could have been averted with the proper crew training.

With all of my free time on the ship, i've decided to start giving the gym a serious go for probably the first time ever, and as a musician I am allowed to use the high-end passenger gym. I went on tuesday, hopping on the treadmill for a bit (fully equipped with it's own personal tv) before hitting the weights, with the help of one one of the ship's personal trainers. I went again this afternoon doing the same things, and after that I played some ping-pong in the crew gym with Anton, the showband's Ukrainian piano player. I now feel like I've had a pretty productive day and have since eaten and showered and am basically killing time until our two Neil Diamond tribute shows tonight. 

Last time in Boston tomorrow, so I will hopefully be able to hit harvard square and berklee school of music.