January 29, Another 5 days at sea, we are sailing on a steady south westerly course toward Honolulu. Today we had a new speaker, a World War II historian named Bruce Petty. His talk today was “The Pacific War for beginners.
The ship has an amazing Sunday Brunch. Marko, our morning egg chef told us we should just go to see the food carvings and ice sculptures. His room mate does all the carving on the ship, his only job. As you can see from the pictures below the carvings are beautiful. Of course since we were there we had to eat.
During the afternoon while Betty was on the treadmill, over 50 dolphins were swimming along the ship, jumping in and out of the ocean. We have never seen so many on any previous cruise. The evening show was called Comedy Magic with Bobby Borgia, it was mostly card tricks and not too funny.
January 30, Still maintaining the same course of travel. The weather is still cool, we were hoping for a warm-up so we could enjoy our balcony. This morning we had another culinary demonstration by the Master Chef. He is interesting to watch and quite funny. Today he made a pesto mixture for pasta and it came out the bottom of the blender all over everything. For lunch today we had sushi which we are both starting to like. In the afternoon we had the second lecture on WWII, “The Battle of Saipan”. We are sure learning a lot from the speaker, Bruce Petty. He would talk forever if the bingo people didn’t kick him out of the lounge. It was formal night and nothing special. We went to the show which was the Pacific Princess Dancers and Singers. They were good for only being together as a group for a couple weeks.
January 31, It is still cool, might hit 70 today. Other than that today we will eat, learn, do trivia, eat, learn, do trivia, eat, get entertained by The Huber Marionettes, then sleep and do it all again tomorrow.
February 1, Eat-Learn-Trivia-Eat-Learn-Trivia-Cocktail Party with the Captain- Eat-Sleep. Actually today I take my first class for Adobe Photo Elements. We had a lecture today given by Jerry Mather's from “Leave it to Beaver” He still looks and sounds like the Beav even at 62 yrs. old. Although he would like us to believe his career is in the stratosphere he is giving lectures on cruise ships. The cocktail was actually very nice, of course free drinks are always good, Betty ordered two Cosmopolitans which were weak,(I still had to drink one of them). I ordered Bourbon on the rocks and they were a nice pour.
February 2, Happy Ground Hog Day, looks like 6 more weeks of winter. Finally our last sea day, we will arrive in Honolulu, Hawaii tomorrow around 8:00. Today we will have out last culinary class with Master Chef Marzi. He will leaving the ship here and will return when we get to Dubai. We have 3 lectures and or films on WWII. These are very interesting. We never realized there are still 78,000 MIA from WWII alone. The speaker is remaining aboard until we get to Auckland so we should have more interesting talks.
