February 14 - At Sea
This morning's lecture by Terry Bishop was all about big things that have happened on Valentine's Day - sort of fun. The second was "Everything You Thought You Knew is Wrong". Mitchell Symons debunked a lot of old wive's tales or urban myths. I decided to skip the afternoon talk about Images of Ships on Early Maps by Chet Van Duzer. Had enough of the sea monsters yesterday.
We got a bit of good news from Captain Palm at noon. We are cleared to arrive in Fiji (after skipping both of the Samoan islands) so we'll be in Lautoka a day earlier than scheduled at 7:00 am, but their health authorities will be doing a thorough inspection that is expected to take 6 hours! If all is good, which I'm sure it will be, we'll be allowed to get off. Then that night we will move over to Suva, Fiji for a full day. After that, if all goes well, we'll be returned to our regularly scheduled programming, as they used to say on TV. Fingers crossed. The poor excursion people will be scrambling to make all the necessary changes to existing tours and add new ones in Suva. I don't envy them that job.
Michael went to his Italian lesson and I spent the afternoon by the pool or in the coffee lounge reading. Our trivia score was a new low of 7/15. We were close on a couple, but not close enough. Jan is part of the passenger choir and they sang a couple of love songs at tonight's Valentine's Day event. I think they will be performing again before this segment is over. We had a delightful dinner with Leona (from our trivia team) and her husband, Steve who are from Maui. I'm afraid the 6 of us may have been a little loud at times as we were laughing a lot. And we discovered that Steve who worked in the finance department of Aloha Airlines knew Captain Jack, Michael's boss when he worked for IASCO. Small world.
Didn't make it to the show tonight, a comedian. But if he gets good reviews, perhaps I'll try for his next performance. Sure wish the shows weren't at 9:30 pm.
We got a bit of good news from Captain Palm at noon. We are cleared to arrive in Fiji (after skipping both of the Samoan islands) so we'll be in Lautoka a day earlier than scheduled at 7:00 am, but their health authorities will be doing a thorough inspection that is expected to take 6 hours! If all is good, which I'm sure it will be, we'll be allowed to get off. Then that night we will move over to Suva, Fiji for a full day. After that, if all goes well, we'll be returned to our regularly scheduled programming, as they used to say on TV. Fingers crossed. The poor excursion people will be scrambling to make all the necessary changes to existing tours and add new ones in Suva. I don't envy them that job.
Michael went to his Italian lesson and I spent the afternoon by the pool or in the coffee lounge reading. Our trivia score was a new low of 7/15. We were close on a couple, but not close enough. Jan is part of the passenger choir and they sang a couple of love songs at tonight's Valentine's Day event. I think they will be performing again before this segment is over. We had a delightful dinner with Leona (from our trivia team) and her husband, Steve who are from Maui. I'm afraid the 6 of us may have been a little loud at times as we were laughing a lot. And we discovered that Steve who worked in the finance department of Aloha Airlines knew Captain Jack, Michael's boss when he worked for IASCO. Small world.
Didn't make it to the show tonight, a comedian. But if he gets good reviews, perhaps I'll try for his next performance. Sure wish the shows weren't at 9:30 pm.
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