Day 4 At Sea 

Hey Folks - time for a quick update. I’ve been fighting a cold and feeling like crud so I’m doing this a day late. I’ll try to get caught up either tonight or tomorrow depending on the dinged danged cold. I’m currently writing this at the back of the theater at a table while Mum sits up front learning about sea birds. Works for us.

As of the beginning of Day 4 we had traveled 1,079 nautical miles and were still 1,329 miles to Hilo. It was a slow morning for us thanks to moi. A leisurely breakfast followed by reading in the cabin until Mikko needed to do the morning cleaning and then we skedaddled up to the library again to work on our embroidery/cross-stitch. They are coming along nicely.

Tikki-Boo has been religiously studying the days events and highlighting what she thinks would be fun. After lunch there was a hula dance lesson so you bet your bippy Mum wanted to go to that one. It was located in the lounge at the front of the ship where you had to pass by the two pools and all of the people frying themselves into a crisp. How fascinating! It was quite the party atmosphere with a DJ and an incredibly busy bar. There are definitely areas of the ship that we just don’t go to like the pool area and the casino with the slot machines. We are the library and lecture type people on this cruise…and hula lessons. 

So back to the hula lesson - Mum was the brave one while I sat in the audience cheering her on. The instructor was wonderful and patiently taught everyone the hand and hip motions. Tikki-Boo was wonderful! I was so proud of her for learning the hula and she had a big smile on her face at the end. Unfortunately I didn’t get any pictures given that there were too many people between us but trust me that she did a great job.

After the hula lesson, we went to the movie theater to watch a movie neither of us had seen before called “Fly Me To The Moon”. It was a good movie that we both enjoyed and nice way to spend two hours. After that we had 3 hours until dinner. We discovered that we like going to the late seating of dinner as it’s less frenetic and much more relaxing. So we sat out on our veranda for several hours reading and just enjoying the bejesus out of the evening. 

At dinner, we got a different waiter but the same sommelier (go Sachin!) and it was all very tasty again. It was an enjoyable ending to our enjoyable albeit quiet day. Mum has highlighted four different programs for tomorrow so lots more to report tomorrow. Sneak peak to tantalize you for tomorrow - Puffins have a split tongue. Who knew?!

Aloha for Day 4