The movie: The Terminal ~ Carrie's version
Have you seen it? Do you feel for Tom when all he wants to do is leave the airport and see New York and they won't let him out? For those of you who haven’t seen it, it is a movie about a guy who flies to JFK and while he is mid-flight civil unrest breaks out in his country. As such, his country is no longer recognized by the US, he can not get a visa to enter the US and he is not able to return to his country. So there he is ~ stuck in the airport. While my country is not in the midst of civil unrest, there was definitely other stuff goin' on.
When I first came on board, we were made aware of documentation that would be required for us to get off the ship in St. Petersburg. This document is a Seaman’s Book and from what I can tell is only required here in Russia. So upon arriving, a number of us shelled out the $30US and 2 sexy passport photos for the document. Here in lies the issue ~ the books still have not arrived. It would seem the applications that were sent mid-March arrived in the UK, were processed and the promptly put in the mail. Yes, the mail, on their way to Miami. It now appears that the ‘package’ may have been misplaced. Without a means to track the package, there are a number of us who are now living ‘The Terminal’ onboard the Constellation while we are in Russia. The kicker here is that we overnight in St. Petersburg, so we actually have 2 days where we are able to see the outside world, but alas we can not pass the gangway. We are told that the package should be arriving in Dover this week, but I think they are merely trying to pacify us and stop the mob from crashing the Crew Purser’s office… So as we listened to the stories of others as they returned from their adventures on shore (including an unlikely trip by the Marine Admin Assistant to the Seaman’s Club ~ a strip club ~ by accident. Not sure how she managed that, but the story was good and I had a good laugh…). We are now praying to the Documentation God that the books will be delivered before next week.
So what I have seen of Russia is the Oompa band and port. This is apparently one of the largest ports going and I can definitely see why. Doing a 360 on the ship, everywhere you look you see loading equipment for the ships. Hopefully I will be able to report more later…
Port side of the ship
From the back side of the ship
When I first came on board, we were made aware of documentation that would be required for us to get off the ship in St. Petersburg. This document is a Seaman’s Book and from what I can tell is only required here in Russia. So upon arriving, a number of us shelled out the $30US and 2 sexy passport photos for the document. Here in lies the issue ~ the books still have not arrived. It would seem the applications that were sent mid-March arrived in the UK, were processed and the promptly put in the mail. Yes, the mail, on their way to Miami. It now appears that the ‘package’ may have been misplaced. Without a means to track the package, there are a number of us who are now living ‘The Terminal’ onboard the Constellation while we are in Russia. The kicker here is that we overnight in St. Petersburg, so we actually have 2 days where we are able to see the outside world, but alas we can not pass the gangway. We are told that the package should be arriving in Dover this week, but I think they are merely trying to pacify us and stop the mob from crashing the Crew Purser’s office… So as we listened to the stories of others as they returned from their adventures on shore (including an unlikely trip by the Marine Admin Assistant to the Seaman’s Club ~ a strip club ~ by accident. Not sure how she managed that, but the story was good and I had a good laugh…). We are now praying to the Documentation God that the books will be delivered before next week.
So what I have seen of Russia is the Oompa band and port. This is apparently one of the largest ports going and I can definitely see why. Doing a 360 on the ship, everywhere you look you see loading equipment for the ships. Hopefully I will be able to report more later…
Port side of the ship
From the back side of the ship
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