In retrospect, now that I’ve been on the cruise, I do wish I had given myself a little more credit with my creativity. In all fairness, I was already overwhelmed, so the thought of having to come up with costumes was going to be a hard pass on my part. Of course after some research, I realized who the director was and it all made a bit more sense to me, but I was already convinced that theme nights were just not going to be for me. I immediately texted my friend a copy of the full post explaining about the theme night in hopes that he was more creative (and gay) than I was, and well, he wasn’t. Who? What? These guys were already on a different level than me and I was questioning my film knowledge. We had received info on themed nights for the one-week sail through the Mediterranean and I won’t lie, at first when I read one of the posts in our private Facebook group that said, “ Let’s celebrate on our first night out of Roma! And use the Cinema Favolosa di Frederico Fellini as our inspiration,” I almost had a panic attack right there on the spot.
