Thursday April 24, 2014 At Sea

The day started cloudy with rain on the horizon.  Rain closed in toward the ship but never reached us.  The rocking and bumpy ride increased during the day  It was still a pleasant day which we enjoyed quite a bit.

Today we only had coffee in our room.  Gerri had put out another “shout out” for a geocacher’s meeting.  The meeting was announced in the Princess Platter for 10 AM in the Wheel House Bar.  We arrived early and staked out a few seats.  We were pleasantly surprised when more people showed up.  We moved to an area where there were a couple of couches and moved some chairs around on the dance floor.  We had one couple there to see what geocaching was about and another man who knew other geocachers and was hoping to get some information to help him decide what kind of GPS unit to buy.  Our little group of cachers grew by three more couples.  We did a round robin introduction after I gave a brief description of the game for the benefit of the inquiring minds.  Our group now consists of cachers from Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Washington, North Carolina and California.  We had some discussion on the merits of different GPS units and some talk about unique caches that we had experience.  We also had a brief discussion describing Travel Bugs and their variations.  The meeting started to break up at 11.  We decided to ask for another meeting before reaching Los Angeles.  I asked everyone to bring their GPS units to the next meeting along with a story about their most unique or fun caches.  I had also asked everyone to contact their area approvers to help bring back virtual cachers.  I also asked that they contact the approvers about how to set up a meet and greet aboard cruises so that they can be posted on geocaching. com and add to the attendees stats. A member of the Cruise Director’s staff came by as the meeting broke up, he had the wrong time on his schedule as he was assigned to come to view our meeting.  Gerri told him that we wanted to arrange another meeting, he said he would take care of it.

We had lunch in the Donatelli dining Room.  After lunch we went to a presentation on paying for long term care in the Princess Theater.  The presentation was made by a couple of passengers who were also elder law attorneys in Kentucky.  The presentation centered around obtaining Medicaid and was very informative.

I went by the library to try to get on the internet.  I haven’t been able to collect my e-mail since Tuesday.  I wasn’t able to get on even with the help of the Internet Café manager.  He said he didn’t know why but the service had been slow since yesterday.

The Sudoku puzzles today were a hard and a medium.  I failed on the medium.  Gerri failed on both, so I didn’t even look at the hard.

We went to the Explorer’s Lounge for hors d’ouvres. Tonight was sushi. We then went to the Princess Theater and saw a singer who sang Nat King Cole songs.  After the show it was to dinner at our regular table.

After dinner we went to the Explorer’s Lounge for a rock and roll show.  Before the rock and roll music we saw the end of a round of the Princess Pop Star contest.  This is an ongoing karaoke contest and finalists are chosen for a final contest later in the cruise.

After the show we went to our room and read for a little while.  Tonight we had to set the clock forward an hour.  That will happen one more time before we are on Pacific Time.