In the spirit of my favorite holiday being right around the corner, I helped in the organizing of a Halloween Party on the Maersk Launcher. There were paper bats lining the halls of the deck, there was excessive candy and coffee, and best of all almost HALF of the people that attended went in costume!!! As one of the only Americans on the vessel, I felt it was my duty to bring some spooky cheer to the crew, especially as our trip is winding down - we've all been working so hard together and such long hours, it felt like the least we could do was lighten the mood and share a night of laughs! As we were not planning on having a Halloween party onboard, the costumes had to be creative AND made using only the materials available to us on the vessel. We had a mermaid trapped in plastic, a witch, a blue whale, a fish, a mummy, a castaway and many more! Yours truly attended the party as Marine DeBREE (thanks to a friend in Miami for giving me the idea AGES ago) and we had a lovely night enjoyed in the company of friends and silly costumes and just a little too much sugar. It's the little moments like this that I'm definitely going to miss, but I'm excited that we got to share at least one last night of genuine fun on the Launcher. In addition, I'm beyond THRILLED to have a costume that matches my blog title: This costume is, in fact, trash! I'm a little nervous about seeing shore for the first time in almost two months, but I'm also definitely looking forward to not having the world constantly moving.
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AuthorBree Gibbs, here. I'm a recent Master's Grad just trying to share what it's like to be a trash scientist (for those who aren't in the know, I'm a marine biologist). Categories
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