Wednesday
Day 5 - At Sea
Today we
woke up to sunny skies for the first time on the trip. It was also much warmer and the humidity
continues to climb. There is a suite
function in the Pinnacle Grill today, so we had a light continental breakfast
in the Neptune Lounge. Val and I decided
to do some walking on the lower promenade deck so went down and did two laps
around the decks. From there we decided
to spend some time at the sea view pool, but it was pretty crowded so we spent
the rest of the morning relaxing on our balcony.
The
Pinnacle Grill suite luncheon was nice, but I thought not organized too
well. It was set up as a buffet and to
keep the line short, only certain tables were let go at one time. This created delays and by the time we got up
there some of the food needed replenishing and others had cooled off. All in all though, it was good and we got to
meet some of our neighbors. After lunch
Val returned to the team trivia competition where her team again did well, but
not well enough to win. Today was the
second qualifying slot tournament and I had a coupon for an entry so I gave it
another try. Unfortunately, I did even
worse today and didn’t come close to winning.
From there I went to a lecture on the little known smaller islands in
the Hawaiian Island chain. There are
actually 132 islands in the Hawaiian Islands stretching 2500 miles with the
last one being Midway.
The rest of
the afternoon was spent reading and taking it easy. We decided not to go to the show tonight, but
instead went up to the Crow’s Nest and had a couple of drinks and hors d’oeuvres. It was very quiet up there at that time of
the evening and nice for a change.
Later, after another very good dinner, it was off to the casino to
finish the night. This time my luck
finally changed and not only did I gain back everything I lost, I am actually
up for the trip. Unfortunately for Val,
her luck turned for the worse. That was
the end of our day, tomorrow morning we sail into Honolulu for our first port
of the trip.
Here are a
couple of pictures Val took of our sunset tonight.
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