Day 19 - Sat 27Apr2024 - At Sea to Honolulu, HI - Day 1

 Today we started our next to last long stretch of sea days as we make our way to Honolulu, Hawaii.  There's all measure of things to do all day, but I chose to simply attend the Bible study and the enrichment talk on the 2010 Haiti earthquake response by the retired US Ambassador Lewis Lucke.  As I approached Princess Live, Ron Shaefer, the current Bible study leader, approached me and asked if I could take over for a few days.  I agreed to it so I'll be leading on Mon-Wed which are the days before we reach Honolulu.  Ambassador Lucke was a great presenter and did not read from a script which was refreshing.

After lunch I caught up with my blog and watched my YouTube subscriptions in the cabin.  It made for a very relaxing afternoon.  For evening entertainment schedule, we decided to change things up a bit.  I went to the Vista lounge at 7pm for the 8:30pm comedian's show.  Angela went to the 7:30pm vocalist, Meghan Murphy (Big Red) and then she joined me for the 8:30 comedian (Sid Davis).  He was very very funny and the room was packed with standing room only.  The entry doors had to be closed to restrict the entrants.  Afterwards, I went to Meghan's 9:30pm performance (I would characterize her performance as that of a lounge or cabaret singer, but she could really belt out the rhythm & blues & jazz tunes) while Angela went to her 9:30pm karaoke event.  We then met up and strolled out in the humid air on deck 7 and finally found where the smokers have to go.  I was able to take a pretty nice picture of the moon.  




Tomorrow is Sunday and while there is a 7:30am bible study, I don't think that we'll make it.  The Sunday church service is at 8:30am.


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