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Carnival’s cruise director has quite the witty blog

Image of John HealdJohn Heald is the Cruise Director of the Carnival Splendor, the cruise ship we all have heard a lot about this past week due to it being stranded at sea. This is the same cruise ship that we sailed on back in September, and Heald for me was just the bloke that would occasionally pop in on the intercom to give us updates and random cruising news. I also personally thought that his cruise director show they had on the TV was a little boring, so I didn’t really give him much thought.

Upon reading some of the news stories about the Splendor being stranded, I came across a link for Heald’s personal blog. I have now decided that the man is HILARIOUS.

He’s got some funny code words for certain things, my personal favorite being “rumpy pumpy” for sex, HA! I’m going to have to start using that one. In another post he was commenting on how sick he felt that day, and how his nose was so clogged that “it’s been trapped up there for so long I am thinking of hiring those brave men who are rescuing the poor trapped miners in Chile to build a tunnel up my nose and drill a hole.” HA!

There was another post I came across that actually made me quite sad though. Apparently last month a member of the Splendor crew committed suicide by jumping from the ship. He was never found :'(. I pictured the various faces of some of the crew that we were in regular contact with, like our dining room servers, our steward that was so funny, etc. and knew that really this person who jumped could have been any one of them. Sadness.

Heald updates his blog daily, and I feel like I’m going to pop in an check it out pretty often. I’m sure a part of it is that the Splendor has a soft spot in my heart as it was my very first cruise experience, and I LOVED it, so hearing about it’s voyages and crew via this blog is awesome. If you want a funny read check it out at: http://www.johnhealdsblog.com.

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2 Comments

  1. Becky says:

    My yoga teacher and Felicity’s dance instructor was on the boat where the guy jumped. She said it was crazy!

  2. Whoa really?! That’s so sad, and that’s a long ass way down 🙁

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