week 2 of Christmas around the world

On Friday night, the Logos Hope hosted a concert by the man named "The King of Gospel Music" - Jesse Dixon. It is very unusual for the ship to hold a concert on behalf of a third party but this event was especially different as the first thing we knew about the concert was when we received some flyers advertising it in the post! The ship had been asked if we would host the event and we had said no, but the organiser went ahead anyway. They also told everyone that there is lots to do on Logos Hope so people can come early. So from 4pm onwards we had visitors arriving who happily enjoyed our book shop and cafe while they waited.

The concert also featured a 38 voice gospel choir which was another first for our new Logos Lounge. Despite a host of challenges for the events team as well as the AV team, all of the 300 concert goers seemed to enjoy Jesse's gospel concert.
















On Saturday and Sunday, we once again opened the doors for our second Christmas around the World weekend. Although we had less visitors than the first weekend, those that came bought more books, spent more time onboard and engaged more with the ships company. The cafe was positively buzzing on both afternoons with every table full a lot of the time - we are working on getting more tables set up for the coming weekend.















It has been a lot of hard work for everyone onboard to run these events, with many people giving their days off, particularly to man the country stands. Heather and I were on the British stand on Sunday afternoon where we offer visitors a mince pie or roast chestnut, let kids right a letter to Santa and post it in our special post box, or throw snowballs in our tin can game to get to pull a Christmas cracker.





























It is great to be able to talk to the visitors and share more about why we are here and what we are doing. Heather was also singing with the carol singers again.









The winning American display





One other piece of good news is that we have now set a date for the Lloyds Register surveyors to come onboard and do our Passenger Ship Safety Certificate survey. The PSSC is the paper that we need to be allowed to sail from this port with all onboard. It is what we have been working towards for the past 2 years so to actually now have a date is very exciting. We expect the surveyors to come for a full week and then sign the certificate when they leave.
We hope to be able to sail within 2 weeks of getting the PSSC.

There will probably just be one more blog from us here in Denmark before we leave to travel home to Edinburgh for Christmas. We are taking the car to Amsterdam where we get the ferry over to Newcastle and then drive up to Edinburgh. We are all looking forward to the break and a rest as well as seeing family and friends over Christmas.

And there is more snow forcast for Friday. Yeah!