January 23, A nice smooth day at sea, I worked on pictures and the blog.. Hopefully I will get a lot of my pictures deleted and cataloged before we get home. Betty went to another culinary talk, more wonderful recipes. We celebrated Chinese New Year in the dining room. Afterwards we went to the show which we really enjoyed. It was Bobby Brooks Hamilton, he is the son of Jackie Wilson. Those of you over 50 probably know who Jackie Wilson was.
January 24, Happy Birthday Chris! Today was another relaxing day and I have got the blog up to date. Hopefully we will get an internet connect soon, of course everybody will be on and it will be slow. Betty went to a Scholarship at Sea Lecture, on “A day in the life of an Air Force instructor Pilot, given by Dr. D. J. Heinrich. Dinner in the dining room was a Chef’s special, very different, our tablemates Woody & Barb opted to go get a burger. Actually the food was good and we both enjoyed our meals. We went to the show, the performer was Mark Preston, a lounge lizard and former member of “The Letterman”. He put on a fairly good show.
January 25, Still no internet aboard ship. A lot of dolphins around the ship this morning. We are still sailing along the Mexican coast and see land and more cargo ships headed to the Panama canal. We attended the last talk by Dr. Heinrich. It was titled “Who killed the Legendary Red Baron” Tonight was our second formal night, the only good thing about it was that they served lobster. They did the parade of Chefs and cooks but no baked Alaskan. Below a picture of us and our table mates Woody and Barb at dinner.
January 26, No internet, apparently the problem is bigger than we were lead to believe. We went to the Culinary Demonstration with Master Chef Alfredo Marzi. He prepared French Onion soup and made a Baked Alaska. His Baked Alaska looked delicious so maybe they will still have it. Nice thing on Princess is that these culinary demonstration are offered free where on HAL they charge. The weather has really cooled down , at noon it is only in the low 70’s. Too cool to sit on the balcony, as the sun is on the port side. Tonight’s show is the Pacific Princess Choir, a group of passengers. We heard them practice which was enough, skipped the show to watch the King’s Speech instead.
January 27, The internet is up, but running very slow. I was able to post the blog on Quepos, Costa Rica. Hopefully it will improve as we are getting near San Diego. I will also take my laptop ashore and hopefully use Betty’s sister’s internet. This morning we went to another lecture by Dr. Heinrich on aviation. It was interesting but more a filler of idle time, 5 days at sea is a little long. Betty had her meeting for the Book Club but the leader of the group (Princess Employee) did not show, so they discussed it among the members. I went to a luncheon for Cruise Critics. The chef made a special appetizer of penne pasta and shrimp, it was very good. Interesting people involved with this group. At dinner tonight we had Baked Alaskan, and it was prepared just like the Master Chef demonstrated it the other day. It was very good, twice as good as Holland’s. We should reached the USA/Mexico border at around 5:00am tomorrow morning. Looks like we will get off the ship around 9:30 after the complete ship goes thru immigration. Half of the ship is getting off and returning home or to other things. We are not sure how many new passengers are getting on.
January 28. We are in San Diego, well sitting in the Pacific Ocean, we arrived around 5:00 and sitting here across from the Coronado Bridge. We were suppose to arrive at 7, so we must be waiting for the pilot to show us the way.
