10 Ahoy Matey .. It's the Pirate Swap!!

Always trying to add more fun to our Nauti Nomad program, it was now time for our Pirate Swap. Rules are simple, buy a useful cruise gift at the value of $10 - you would think that would be the easiest to abide by, but no once again we had those who decided that they were special, and that the $3 gift from the boutique was enough. You place your gift on the table, we give you a raffle ticket.

We had a wonderful turnout and there were well and truly over 100 gifts on
the table. Princess also helped out with tables, extra folding chairs and a
microphone.
First ticket is drawn, prize was picked and opened. Second ticket was picked, winner asked to steal or choose. and this continues until all gifts have been distributed. Now what makes this game fun is the stealing. As coordinator you hope that there are one or two items that tickle peoples' fancy and encourage a whole lot of pirating. 

 When purchasing our gift I thought, what would be tempting enough to drive a person to crime? Alcohol of course! So my gift comprised of two plastic champagne flutes and two cans of Prosecco. Yes you heard right, Prosecco in a can. go figure. Yes and they fooled those xray machines!! Add to that a Block of Whittaker's chocolate (thankyou Ray & Paula) and this was thrown around the room like a game of hot potato.

 At one stage I suggested that the current holder just sit in the chair on the stage.

Another big winner was a bag of yummy chocolates, chips, coffee bags and tea bags. You all know the saying "One mans trash is another mans treasure". We
had a small cube clock which the recipients face showed a little disappointment when opened. Well that little clock showed not just time, but date, temperature and I know there was a 4th thing, was stolen several
times throughout the morning.

 
Now getting back to the cans of Prosecco, I instructed Garry that I would really like those plastic champagne glasses for drinks out at deck 11 and lo and behold with only a few gifts left, I was sure we had it in the bag. Now a little background story, today was our friends Marie's birthday and at one
stage she was in possession of the Prosecco bag. Her little heart was set on that block of Hazelnut Chocolate. So, once it was stolen from her, she sat there with the saddest face. Now I want you to know that if we had won, we had every intention of giving Marie the chocolate. Ok back to the original
story, the next number to come out was our dear friend Mary. Well I knew  we were safe with this one as Mary has the kindest heart and she has said she would never steal at swap as it is not in her nature. Well you could have picked me up on the floor, with the guiltiest of grins she sheepishly walked and stole the bag from Garry. 

Now all was quickly forgiven because Mary walked straight over to Marie and gave her the bag, all because it was her birthday. Didn't I tell you she has the kindest nature. I can honestly say today was a great success and the feedback was great.

 
Thankyou Nauti Nomads for making it easy to make it fun!!
Step Count : 130,122 .. 30,000 in front already. and we haven't hit a
port yet!!