SAILING ON~~ Tuesday, 3/2

CONTINUATION of Monday, 3/1

We enjoyed a nice dinner which lasted 90 minutes. Those nice “sit-down” dinners are served in courses and definitely stretch out the meal. I had salmon, veggies and a salad for dinner (shrimp cocktail for the appetizer) but splurged on dessert tonight and ordered the “Hawaiian” banana ice cream with macadamia nut dish. Richard ordered the same and we SHOULD have ordered just one and shared. But ALAS, we didn’t do that and each at the whole thing. Made me thankful that I had skipped the sweets all day long. I would have to skip them all week to make up for that one dessert but don’t imagine that will happen. I’ll just have to be more careful from here on out.

After dinner, we went to the Princess Theater for the 8:30 show. It was just too racy for us (skimpy dress and raunchy dance moves) so we quickly exited the theater. Returned to our room to read, catch up on Fox News, and went to sleep around 10:00.

STILL SAILING AND GOING STRONG, Tuesday March 2

We woke up at 3:00 which was 6:00 your time so prayed for you all as you were getting up and ready for your day. We are gaining (going backwards in time) an hour each day due to crossing the time zones. Isn't that cool? It's nice to be gaining them going out and then will nice to lose hours as we return home so we will get there quicker. :)

6:00 a.m. Awake and up! Boy, the gentle rocking of the boat is so good for sleeping but makes it hard for walking. Now I know what a drunk must feel like. It's not THAT bad but even a little sway disrupts your equilibrium, I guess. I heard 3 or 4 folks yesterday saying they were feeling queasy so guess our Dramamine is working just fine as we haven't had ANY of that. PTL!!!

9:00 We are going to hear a lecture this morning from a man who interviewed the last survivor of the Titanic. So we are up a bit early (got up at 6:00) so we can go catch breakfast before we go to that lecture.

At 10:00, we will attend the Port Talk on O'Ahu as cruise director David introduces us to Nawiliwili and then he will tell us all about the different shore excursions there.

At 10:30, we are going to the demonstration to watch the ship's culinary artists turn fruits and vegetables into works of art and the florist will create an award winning arrangement.

At 2:00, we plan to attend the Naturalist talk about Hawaii's Fire and Ice: Volcanoes.

One day at 2:00, I need to attend the class where you make a beautiful lei from fresh orchids. Some ladies were sporting them yesterday, and they are beautiful and last 2 weeks (so they said!).

Tonight is our first formal dinner. WE get to gussie up and enjoy a fine feast. I am hoping for some prawns on the menu. I haven't had prawns in nearly 2 years~~ when we were introduced to them on our Alaskan cruise that we so much enjoyed with our friends John and Jeanette.

There is tons of other stuff (pages of activities are listed in the Princess Patter (daily paper) so you can pick and choose. You know they HAVE to keep the passengers busy during this long of a voyage so that we don't become restless. HA!

It's a beautiful early morning on the Pacific and should have a high of 65 today. Still looking forward to those low 80s on the islands Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday!

We hope you have a wonderful day!

P.S. Just hearing this on the ship channel on TV: there is no jet stream in the Pacific like there is in the Atlantic so that's why Pacific is some 30 degrees colder than the Atlantic. He said we will have warmer weather tomorrow and each day thereafter. YAY!!!