Day 7 Last Full Day at Sea

It was our last full day at sea today and we’ve enjoyed the heck out of it. It’s been a super relaxing and fun time. We’ve enjoyed reading, crafting, listening to lectures and learning the Hula dance on Tikki-Boo’s part. As of 8:30 pm Hawaiian time, we are 120.9 miles to Hilo and we’ve traveled 2,288 nautical miles. We arrive at Hilo at 8:00 am tomorrow morning and our first excursion departs at 9:00. We are so excited!

But in the meantime, it’s been a rather slow day for us on day 7. There wasn’t much in the way of lectures today that we wanted to attend although we did go see Celia (the nature lecturer) talk about how she got to this point of her career. What a fascinating family she comes from. Her parents were laid off from their job when she was 11 and they decided it was the perfect time to take their family of 5 to the Appalachian Trail to hike the entire 2000+ miles the following spring. Damn! It was a fascinating talk about taking risks and making dreams come true. Celia has lived an amazing life already and is only in her 30s.

We returned to the cabin after that and enjoyed the breeze off the ocean as we read and did our crafts on our respective beds for the next several hours. We emerged from our cocoon for a couple of hours to see the film “The Ballad of Wallis Island”. It was a mostly good film with some plot lines that just didn’t make sense to me. But we were both highly impressed with the acting of the male lead, Tom Key. He was awkward and endearing and was the highlight of the film.

Back to the cabin for a bit and then an early dinner at 6:00. We shared the table with three other couples, two of whom were very chatty and engaging, and a third couple who did much better with one-on-one conversations. Dinner lasted for two hours (forever in cruise time) so it’s a damn good thing we enjoyed each other’s company.  Mum and I had considered going to the show tonight which was Broadway something or other (see how excited I was about it) but it was an hour until the next show and once we got back to the room, that was it! Pajama time!!!! We had been in our fancy schmancy clothes for precisely 2.5 hours and that was our limit. 

We can’t wait to experience Hilo tomorrow and share all of our fun adventures with you.

Goodnight on Day 7