Last Sea Day Of Hawaiian Cruise

   Today was day 5 of the crossing from Hawaii to Mexico. Tomorrow we will be in Ensenada which is at the northern end of the Baja Peninsula. We managed to fill most of the day between exercise and eating!

   We were up early enough to try Tai Chi again. I still don't feel the life force after each movement but I suspect that that would come with more practice. That was followed by the last zumba class of the cruise. It was another good class with the same instructor that we have had the last few days. We stopped by the Onboard Outlet Sale but we did not find anything. When we do a crossing they always has the tees on sale but because this ship is doing another Hawaii run, no bargains were available. The culinary demonstration followed. It showcases how some of the food is made. Today they made a pasta, a shrimp dish and black forest cake. The comedy comes with the head waiter pouring the entire salt shaker into the pasta to “give it some taste”. Same with the garlic! It is always an entertaining time and follows the routine that we have seen before.

    After our seafood lunch (huge prawns), we attended the review dance class where we did the Merengue, Cha Cha and the Rhumba. It is too bad that we have not had a dedicated time to practice with the cruise staff teacher there to help out. The classes were much better than others that we have attended in the past. Then we sat in on the Ensenada Mexico port lecture. They get 1or 2 cruise ships a day during the season and the port looks like it is very tourist friendly. She also mentioned that the winery tour we are taking is excellent with plenty of free samples. We passed the line dancing while in progress and had a nice cup of tea.

Ready For Dinner

    This ship has not had a few of the set piece entertainment that we have seen on other ships. The pub night entertainment put on by the staff was not scheduled. We have seen it recently on other ships. The rock and roll night as well as the western line dance night are also gone. Both of those were very tired and need to be scrapped or updated.

  The night was full of entertainment. There was the comedic impression of Mike Wilson who was very fully. Our Scottish friends did not like him but admitted they did not get some of the jokes. Funny we felt the same way when the British comedians performed when we sailed around England. The venue was packed even though we arrived 25 minutes early. We got the last seats in the lounge. Dinner (baked Alaska night) was followed by a musical entertainer. He was good but you needed to enjoy a particular type of humour. A full night! We tour the winery tomorrow! We will follow in a Carnival ship into the port.