{"id":31747,"date":"2017-01-25T05:12:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T11:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/?p=31747"},"modified":"2025-01-04T17:43:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T17:43:02","slug":"publishingatsea-day-3-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/content-creation\/publishingatsea-day-3-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"#PublishingatSea Day 3: Our First Port Day in Colorful Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31751 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/01\/Haiti-opening-slide450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/>It&#8217;s 88 degrees in the eastern Caribbean on Day 3 the fourth-annual #PublishingatSea cruise. I&#8217;m one of six faculty members teaching our 28 authors how to market and sell books. Here&#8217;s a quick recap of today&#8217;s events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8 a.m.:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I sleep late today, our first port day. And by the time I awaken, the ship is in port in <strong>Labadee<\/strong>. Some of the authors in our group are going on a variety of excursions: the <strong>Dragon&#8217;s Breath Flight Line Tour, Labadee Wave Jet Tour,<\/strong> and to the <strong>Beach Bungalows<\/strong>\u00a0that lets them lay in the sun and then retreat to their blue and white striped beach bungalows.<\/p>\n<p>But for me, today is a workday as soon as I buy a few treasures to take home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9 a.m. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I grab breakfast in the Windjammer buffet, then head off the ship for a quick jaunt to the shop\u00a0that sells handmade goods by the island women. I buy five quilted batik make-up bags and a pair of oven mitts, confident that the money will help the islanders.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31749 alignnone\" style=\"margin: 30px 5px 30px 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/01\/Crafts-from-Haiti.jpg\" alt=\"Batik make-up bags and ovenmitts\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One in 10 children in Haiti lives in an orphanage. Eighty percent of those kids have families. <strong>Haiti Baba<\/strong> was created to give moms sustainable employment so they can help keep their kids out of orphanages and with their families. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>3:30 p.m.:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> It&#8217;s all aboard because we&#8217;re headed for <strong>San Juan, Puerto Rico.<\/strong> If you&#8217;re on an excursion you&#8217;ve booked through Royal Caribbean, and you aren&#8217;t back on the ship yet, they&#8217;ll wait for you. <strong>Casey Pelter,<\/strong> our activities director, reminds us that if we venture off on our own and we aren&#8217;t back on time, &#8220;you&#8217;d better learn to braid hair, and we&#8217;ll see you in two weeks.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m back on board well ahead of time and I shoot video from the patio outside my cabin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Publishing at Sea Day 3 Cruise for Authors: Labadee, Haiti\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z3_dApMw7XU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>8 p.m.:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been on a cruise, you&#8217;ve seen the <strong>towel animals,<\/strong> those whimsical creations that sit on your bed and wait for you to return from dinner. They&#8217;re made by the stateroom attendants who actually take <strong>towel-folding classes<\/strong> as part of their training. I always look forward to seeing whether a monkey, turtle, donkey or some other island creature will greet me.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I return to my cabin and discover the TV is on&#8212;odd because I always turn it off before leaving the room. I figure the attendant was watching a favorite program while she was cleaning. About 10 minutes later, I notice the visitor on the couch next to my bed, sitting up straight, holding the TV remote and wearing my sunglasses:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31753\" style=\"margin-bottom: 30px;margin-top: 30px\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/01\/towel-man-on-couch.jpg\" alt=\"Man made out of folded towels \" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, stateroom attendant <strong>Sandra McElroy,<\/strong> for a good laugh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>9 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not an Elvis Fan, but they dragged me to see the headliner show: <strong>Travis Ledoyt,<\/strong>\u00a0who does an excellent impersonation of Elvis in his &#8220;Tribute to the King.&#8221; The shows aboard the ship are fabulous, and after four cruises, I haven&#8217;t seen one I didn&#8217;t enjoy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s activities included something for all ages: rock climbing wall, the movie <strong>&#8220;The Secret Life of Pets&#8221;<\/strong> on the big screen by the outdoor pool, a salsa dance class, music trivia from the &#8217;80s contest, teen karaoke, and a Battle of the Sexes game show.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tomorrow:<\/strong> The foodies in my group are looking forward to our first of two food excursions, a food and culture walking tour through <strong>Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/blog\/publishingatsea-puerto-rico\">See Day 4: The Food of Old San Juan.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#Publishingat Sea Day 3 takes us to Haiti, where I buy colorful batik crafts made by the island women. It&#8217;s the &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/content-creation\/publishingatsea-day-3-haiti\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"rmlink\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":1,"wds_primary_category":603,"footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[608,43,302],"class_list":{"0":"post-31747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-content-creation","7":"tag-authors-publishers","8":"tag-book-marketing","9":"tag-publishing-at-sea","10":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41405,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31747\/revisions\/41405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}