As we sail toward Hawaii the temperature is about 75 degrees, but with a nice breeze. It is easy to spot the Texans and Floridians aboard. They are the ones in windbreakers walking past the Canadians who are sunbathing poolside. Tomorrow it is supposed to reach the low 80’s so that is balcony weather for me. Today, I could hit the casino or there is a presentation on Hawaii, a ceramics class or a lecture on photography. (I actually stuck my head in on that one, but they were talking about various lens usage and light settings -I decided it wasn’t geared to the “point and shooter”). The “Princess Patter” has a list of about two dozen things that I don’t have to do today. What I do love is this deal where, when you go to breakfast, you return to a stateroom that has been magically cleaned in your absence. As for my favorite “life at sea” story of the day - as I have mentioned, you have the same table mates for dinner every night, if you go to the main dining room. During a luncheon conversation the other day our tablemates were telling us they had asked to be moved to another table for dinner. When asked why, they said they were sitting with two 85 year old widow women that did not say a word. They figured this would get pretty boring – then after a couple nights and several glasses of wine, one lady pulled a mink teddy bear hand puppet out of her purse - and started it talking. Apparently the “puppet” was writing a book. That clinched it; they requested a change of tables that night. Now myself, I figure that could have been pretty darn entertaining – but I guess maybe not for the next 93 nights.
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