My Ebony Pyramid Black Gay and Lesbian Cruise to the Bahamas Photojournal

Okay, I'm cutting out a lot of the miscellany because that was in the last blog I wrote that got deleted, all you're getting now are the facts.

I got attached to EPE at the end of the last year after Montoya who I'd worked with as part of Los Angeles Black Gay Pride recommended me to be the western regional administrator. Montoya moved to the ATL last year sometime and I don't think he and I have ever had a conversation but he was familiar with me and what I do and thought I'd be a good rep. After a telephone interview with Alton and Dujuan, they attached me to represent the cruise.

The cruise started on land actually and those of us on the EPE staff had to show up the day before the guests to get everything ready for them. Sean, my Cali back-up and I flew in coincidentally on the same flight, a red eye, and because we have the same last name, we quickly instituted an inside joke of being married and called each other "hubby" and "dear" all weekend.

We hit the ground running on Wednesday, flying in at 7:30 AM, checking into the hotel and then finding something to eat and going to Walgreen's so Sean could replace all the tioletries airport security unapologetically dumped into their gray wastebuckets. After that, we had a little time to wink (not nap, wink) before the entire staff had to convene for our 12:30 meeting, afterwards the staff got to work putting together guest packets while the EPE entertainment staff went somewhere to rehearse their show.



Honestly, I had the most incredible time during this cruise, everyone is down to earth, lots of fun and drama-free. EPE is super-professional, well organized and gives its guests lots of events to participate in. I can't put into words how much I want you to participate next year. Early registration for the cruise starts in November, average cost for the cruise is $500 or so for an inside cabin, pay around $60 a month from November to July and your cruise'll be paid in full by the time the payment plan ends late July. Tell me it's not worth $60 a month to spend 5 days in Paradise. Join us next year.

P.S. I came home to find that I'd misplaced my oh-so-expensive group pictures taken by the cruise photographer. Those pics give a much more accurate view of the over 200 black gay and lesbian folks who went on the cruise. As it stand, the only group pic I have is the 70's pic above and that is by far the least attended group picture of the the 3 we took. =(

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