2011 Cruise, Sept. 23-25, Days7-9

Friday, September 23, 2011, Lahaina, HI, Day 7
We arrived and anchored off Lahaina early this morning. We have now been away from Las Vegas for one week, three more to go.

From the ship we can see Maui, Lanai and Molokai. We took the tender ashore at about 10:30. We walked around Lahaina for awhile. I did one virtual cache near where the tender dropped us off. We were taking pictures and got a memory full message. I bought a 8 gig card at the ABC store. Shortly after that we started getting a low battery signal. Nothing I could do about that as the camera uses proprietary rechargeable batteries and the spare was on the ship.

We met Tim and Beth and Bob and Nina for lunch at the Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant. After that I tried to find a cache under the restaurant deck. After dodging a lot of waves and looking at what I thought were the most likely spots, and some that weren't so likely, I gave up. Man, I really don't like to log DNFs.
We were hot and tired and headed back to the ship. By the time we stood in line and the trip back to the ship we were even hotter.
Showers cooled us off and we spent the next several hours relaxing. As a matter of fact we relaxed the whole evening away watching the movie “From Here To Eternity.”
The ship's position this evening was N19°46.81' W156°39.68' speed 18.8 knots.
We will be at sea for five more days before reaching our next port of call at Moorea. French Polynesia.

Saturday, September 24, 2011, At Sea, Day Eight
Ships position N16°34.67' W156°3.52' Going southeast at 18 knots.
Continental breakfast in the cabin while trying to learn to solve Sudoku Puzzles. Sudoku Puzzles make my head hurt.
Gerri went to her second of five facial massages. I stayed in the room and finished my first Sudoku Puzzle.
We sat around the pool area reading and attempted to solve more Sudoku Puzzles and then went to lunch at the Horizon Court. After lunch we did more sitting around the pool area. With all that sitting around we had to go to our cabin and rest before getting cleaned up for our second formal night.
After supper we went to the Vista Lounge and saw an Australian comedian.
At bedtime the ships position was N12°25.94' W155°17.61', speed 17 knots.

Sunday, September 25, 2011, At Sea, Day Nine
Sips position N9°32.89' W154°46.84'
Guess what we did for breakfast. Last night we had formal pictures taken at six locations. There was a drawing for free pictures today, we weren't even standing close to the winner.
We set out by the pool and at 11:00 Gerri went to a lecture on pearls. I stayed in the pool area and finished another Sudoku Puzzle. I have to plod through all of the possibilities and use a process of elimination. I have no perception and still check the answers when I finish a line of three to reassure myself. I'm not sure I will ever be very good at these puzzles.
At 2 we went to Carpet Bowls, battle of the sexes. The game is similar to Bocci Ball. The balls are smaller than Bocci and are weighted on one side for curving rolls. Add a little rolling of the ship and it becomes very interesting. There were at least 25 couples and we bowled three rounds. The men won 40 to 35. Yesterday was a different story. We didn't bowl but were told the women won by one point.
After Carpet Bowls we went to High Tea. They serve excellent finger sandwiches. I don't think I ever had a cucumber sandwich before. They had lettuce and tomato on an Italian style bread.
At 4:45 we went to the Vista lounge to see a performance of the Sea Princess Pop Choir. The choir was made up of forty or so members of the guest constituency. They had practiced a couple times under the tutelage of three crew members. One of our table mates, Beth Burton, was a member of the choir. The singing and choreography were excellent. This choir got more applause than any other entertainment we have seen. Of course the audience was made up of spouses, family and new friends from the dining tables.
Back to the cabin to clean up and rest up before supper.
After supper we went to the 12th deck and saw part of the Grand Deck Party.
The ship's position tonight was N5°45.45' W154°4.90', speed 17.8 knots.