Hawaii Tomorrow

Sailing Along

    Today was our last sea day before reaching the first of the 4 Hawaiian Islands. We have notice a few things that have changed since we cruise 4 months ago. I don't know if it specific to this ship or if it is fleet wide. First was the fact that our room only had the desk chair and not an arm chair. We had to ask for it! The same with the bread sticks at dinner that we like. We did have the soft serve today and we think they shrunk the cones! Finally we had our formal photos taken last night and in the past there was always a draw for them. No longer. Not complaining just noting!

    Weather was warm and sunny after a foggy and wet morning. We walked on the deck

View From Cabin

and just enjoyed the pool area for awhile. We were up early enough for a nice formal breakfast. My omelette included polenta with provolone cheese. It almost reminded me of what we use to get at home. While waiting for Mark to start zumba, Judy tried the Tai Chi. Having never seen it before, it reminded me of meditation with movement. Mark ended with Proud Mary – again. It seems to be a go to song.

Zumba was followed by a Hula lesson (there were about 75 people) all swaying to the music. We stopped at the “big sale” (same stuff) and then looked in on the line dancing. They did the Cupid Shuffle and of course the electric Slide. Boy we can hardly stand the music!

   Lunch and some outside time and then the Tango dance lesson followed. That is a much harder dance than the ones from the last few days. They hope to have a venue where the show band will play some ballroom dances so we can get more comfortable with the 4 dances that we have learned. Our table mate is in the pop choir so we stayed around to hear her sing. All the dancing and singing took place in the atrium which on this ship is quite small and crowded considering the number of passengers.

 

Pop Choir

  After a quick visit for appetizers, we attended the early comedy show with Canadian Dan Funk. More of the same improv comedy. In fact we remembered one of his improv routines. Of course being improv they are quite funny as he uses people from the audience for them. He did mention that he lives in Cambridge although he commented on his almost sounding Newfie accent. Dinner was very good. That is one item that has remained the same although there is always something with a Hawaiian theme associate with it. We arrived early for the production show Magic To Do. We first saw this show last year. It is a combination of singing and dancing (production show stuff) with a series of illusions tossed in. There was even a tribute illusion to Harry Houdini! It is by far the best of the improving in house production shows. 

  We finally get our time change tonight before arriving in Maui tomorrow. We plan a full day ashore with a whale watching tour in the middle of it. It should be fun.