Opera, Russia, and Cloud.

This entry will briefly combine three days in which we cover a photo shoot of our opera show, a white night in St. Petersburg, and a visit from the Silver Cloud.


Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Choozi Entertainment equips us with three shows.  While we're on the ship, we come up with some new shows as well, but we start with three.  The last show I shared was the motown show, so today, I will show you a little of the opera show.  We call it High C's.

Opera.  It's as grand as it looks.  Who needs sets when you have voices this big?

Everyone else was using a microphone, but I'm holding my light saber.

Madison singing Carmen

Singing "The Prayer" while actually praying that one of these six people finally learned her words tonight.

Thursday July 12, 2012
St. Petersburg, Russia

While I'm at it, I thought I'd sneak in some more picture of Russia.  I snuck off the ship and into Russia on my own today (actually illegal), and I ran into local Russian super hero, Metro man.  Thankfully he was busy working his day job, so he didn't take me to local authorities.  Instead he let me take his picture.

Metro Man!

But what was really special about being in St. Petersburg at this time of year was that I finally got to experience the White Nights.  During the middle of summer, once you are far enough north, the sun will not completely go down.  In stead it will linger over by the horizon.  In the summer this is a very cool thing, but remember than in the winter the pendulum swings the other way.  And this is why everyone drinks vodka.  Anyway, I wanted you to be able to experience this phenomenon with me, so here's a video.

St. Izaak's Cathedral in summer midnight lighting.

Everyone looks good in the Russian midnight sky.

That would be the front of the ship down there.

Here comes the sun, doo doo doo doo...oh, it's stuck.

Just for your reference, the ship is facing east.  This shot is to the south of the Nevsky River.















And this shot is facing the Northwest side of the river.












Friday, July 13, 2012
St. Petersburg, Russia

There are several ships in the Silversea fleet.  They are the Silver Whisper, Shadow, Spirit, Cloud, Wind, Explorer, and soon there will be a Silver Galapagos.  Choozi entertainment is responsible for putting the production shows on the ships.  Every once in a great while, we will be in port with one of our sister ships.  This happened today!  The Silver Whisper and the Silver Cloud were in port together.  The Cloud was just on the other side of the river (about a 15 minute walk).

So here we have five of the cast of the Silver Whisper (left and middle) with three of the cast of the Silver Cloud (right).

One big happy family.