I managed to receive an invite for a dinner on board the USNS Mercy. It was set at 7:00 pm, which meant that we had to be at the pier by 5:00 pm. And the attire was smart-casual. Well, how do you get to have dinner on board the Mercy ship? One had to take the band-aid boat (the size of which can be deceiving as it seemed like almost a hundred guests managed to squeeze in that tiny boat), take a 10-minute bumpy ride (thanks to the weather) and there was the humongous ship. And thanks to the rain which decided to visit Calbayog an hour before the scheduled dinner, what was supposed nice (but certainly not romantic) dinner on the deck had to be moved to the crew's mess hall and you take it from there. Let me share my first set of pictures which I managed to take during the dinner.
