Back in Los Angeles. Mary’s been sick for a couple cruises, throwing up all the time so we had to change our Stardust show at the last minute because she was too sick to do it. Since she’s in so many scenes in one way or another, we had to change about 90% of the show, mostly with other scenes sent to us by Second City. We included Gump, a scene I have seen and really liked, but I was not up to the job. At one point, in each performance, I talked the audience out of the scene. I’m still not sure how I did it, though I know I did it in both, and it bummed me out.
Otherwise, the shows went well, and it was kind of fun for the group of us to come up with a new show. Strength in adversity and all that.
We started scuba classes in Puerto Vallarta, which entailed us sitting in uncomfortable chairs in a hot room watching videos for hours. John and I giggled in the back of the small room, like two teenagers with a substitute in class mocking the cheesy video segments intended to be “funny”. Shawn slept. He woke up at the tail end of each video section to clap and congratulate everyone for finishing.
