Day 23 - Wed 01May2024 - At Sea to Honolulu, HI - Day 5

 Today was our fifth sea day on our way to Honolulu.  At our morning Bible Study in the Princess Live theater, I gave up my day to Rob Watkins, ventriloquist, as he is getting off in Honolulu tomorrow and he led the study.  It was a good time. Once again, not many of the morning activities appealed to me.  Finally at 11am, retired Ambassador Lewis Lucke gave the second of his presentations on Interesting People He had met. It was interesting. Nothing else on the schedule interested me until 3pm when Comedian Andrew Grose did a repeat of his previous show only this time it was in the Princess Theater which was nearly full.  Angela's Pop Choir then performed in the Piazza.  It was really good and well attended.

After dinner Meghan Murphy (Big Red) was the vocalist entertainer with her second show.  She's a powerful, well endowed red head who has a powerful voice.  She's based out of Chicago.  Afterwards we joined the Beards in the Double Down Bar for drinks and conversation about our planned day in Hawaii.  At just after 10, we excused ourselves and attended the second audition for the upcoming Voice of the Ocean competition.  It's loosely modeled after the TV show of the same name and 6 finalists will sing on the Princess Theater stage during our voyage to Vancouver. At the end of the auditions, the six singers were selected and they are good.  Several friends of ours are in the group of 6, and we're excited for them.



Honolulu is tomorrow and it looks to be an active day.  

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