My head itches

April 1- sea day

Ok, I never really blog about my life on the ship, because that may be a little excessive, but I figured since I have IPM today in Egypt, I would blog about THE BEST April fools prank I have ever had played on me. I am still remembering details….I am always the Pranker not the Prank----eee haha (I even called my Mom early in the morning and told her I am quitting my job and moving home…haha yea right!)  but this time, there were so many people involved I couldn’t help but believe it.

It all started with the night before. We were all in rehearsal and I began to scratch my head…. (Normal right?) Well, Jess and the whole cast started casually talking about how guests have had confirmed cases of lice. Joey even chimed in and said, “oh yea, on the last boat I was on, we all had to do lice checks and I felt like I was in elementary school again” Jess also said, she remembers when living in India, all the little girls with long hair had it because the lice can jump from strand to strand. It was amazing….everyone had something to say. The next day, mid afternoon, after I played all of my tricks, David walks into my room and says, oh by the way from 6-7 the entertainment department is having lice checks. I said no way….April fools! Haha and he looked at me so seriously and said, “Nope, this is real”. Brad, our company manager, writes everything official we need to know on the board. And it clearly says. “Due to the several CONFIRMED cases of lice from passengers and crew, we will be having lice checks for the entertainment department from 6-7, I will let you know when I find out where “. Everyone was buzzing about it, and Eli said, “Oh god, I hope we don’t have to go into the infirmary and wait there”, and I was thinking, well maybe they will come to our rooms so as to not freak the guests out….that would be easier. (Turns out, I was completely giving them all of the ideas for a perfect prank) haha that was genius….that way it had to be a secret from everyone else, and there is no other department that could get involved. Also, signs couldn’t be up everywhere because lice had to be hush hush.

Ok, so after hanging out and jamming with one of the guest entertainers, 6 o clock came around…I said, “oh jeeze, we have lice checks, we better go”. Jess even made me nervous that we were going to be late. I hate being late to things haha. So, we waited in Jessica’s room, hanging out and 2 spa girls, with blue disinfectant liquid, a comb and a pick say, ok, “we’ve checked everyone else, who is next in this room?
“Not only were there 2 official spa girls, an officer was checking it off. I was so nervous….and all day, I was wearing my hair up, so as to not catch it. And I scrubbed my head so hard in the shower and even still, my head was so itchy. I was paranoid. They check Jessica first, and then Eli and they are both clear. I put my head down …..and the spa girl asked all of us are you sure you haven’t had any itching…( I was thinking oh god….yes a little….but I lied and said no cause I knew I was paranoid) and then one of the spa girls presses hard on my head with a pick and calls the other one over. This was it…I knew it. It was all the wigs I have to wear in the show, and my head was a little itchy, and I DO have long hair…..my heart skipped a beat. They both look at my head….and I am freaking out at this point. Not because I would really care, I mean it’s treatable, but that I would have to miss some amazing tours, and I would have to do the walk of shame that I have lice to the infirmary. My face was beat red. They told me there was an egg on my head and they needed to take me to the infirmary right away. Duncan, the officer, said that if I do have it, it takes two full days of being quarantined in the infirmary….I said, “I’m going to cry that sucks so bad” and I guess I shouted down the hall “crap, I have it!” Then they said I needed to go right away, so they made me wrap a towel over my head and walk up the stairs to the infirmary. These spa girls were so convincing…telling me, yea this has happened before, but they have to check each department and make sure no one has it. They would check the casino department next. Duncan went into the infirmary and told me there are passengers in there and it would be 5 minutes….at that moment, the whole cast runs up and says April Fools. I about died. I was just about to cry because they could have shaved my head! Hahaha I can’t believe I got punked this good. Congrats to Jess and Heather the masterminds of this plot……good game. Good game.

Now I am going to get my hair cut and enjoy some spa time…..no lice. Thank god.