About my quarantine family and birthday party on Corona Cruises

We are 11 guests, 4 volunteers, ~15 staff members and their kids, coming from 13 different nationalities: Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela, Spain, France, Lithuania, UK, Slovakia, Israel, Hungary, Netherlands, Germany and me from Finland. 

My quarantine birthday party with bunch of tourists on Corona Cruises

Fun fact is that basically none of us guests decided to come of stay here, but somehow we all still did. It’s funny to think all the coincidences and small decisions that brought us all here. Maybe we should believe in destiny? 

We have been here now for 3 weeks in a complete lockdown, but it feels like I've known these people for much longer time. We became really close super quickly (latest after the first party :D ) and I love the family-like feeling here, with strongly blurring the lines between staff and guests. Everyone collects their dishes, help picking mangoes and doing other things. We sometimes take turns to act as guest chefs with our amazing kitchen staff (will devote one post later just for the great food here).

Birthday special

One of the most memorable days was of course my birthday on March 25th. I knew that I will be abroad and might celebrate it with some new friends (plan was to be in Medellin), but nothing special. First we our daily morning yoga with a birthday special. And because I love organizing parties, decided to throw a theme party – tourist party on Corona Cruises ship simulator. Loved the effort everyone made for their outfits!

My dream cake 😍

The cocktails here are dangerously good

“Never have I ever” bingo, learning Finnish group dance Letkajenkka and limbo, as well as amazing tacos, tequila shots and my dream come true: a mango cake! Huge thanks for everyone here who made it happen, I had a blast <3

Love,
Else