Ice Carving

One of the standard events on a cruise ship is an ice carving demonstration. In a few minutes, a block of ice is changed into a sculpture while you watch. We meet the man who carved the ice on this cruise when we went to Hawaii. On that ship, he was doing vegetable carvings.

He is from my wife's hometown: Paete in the Philippines. This town is famous for wood carving. The same skills apply to ice and vegetable carvings. There is a good chance that the person doing this on your cruise is from Paete.

There are more Filipinos working on ships (both cruise and cargo) than any other nationality. The cruise director told me that without them there would be no cruise industry.