February 17 - At Sea
We crossed the International Dateline late yesterday, but the ship didn't try to put us onto Sunday for only a few hours. So we just skipped Sunday and woke up to Monday. A little disorienting all day - we kept hearing "what is the day/date today?" - but it's all good. Suddenly though, the day and time at home is quite different so that will take some getting used to.
This morning's lecture by Terry Bishop was about cases of people being lost at sea for long periods of time - the longest being over 400 days. This afternoon was Mitchell Symons' second part of the Prime Ministers of England. I didn't think he would, but he made it all the way through to current time.
We had to fill out a health evaluation form for the Fijian authorities and Tom and Jan will have to present themselves for a physical evaluation in the morning. I'm guessing this applies to everyone who got on in Papeete. We asked the excursion people about our land tour to Angkor Wat in March and were told that, as far as they know, it is still scheduled. One concern would be that Singapore will not allow us to fly there from Cambodia. As of now, that isn't a problem, but we'll have to monitor the situation. Apparently several cruise lines have changed schedules so that they don't use Singapore as a port. Not sure why since there aren't an unusual number of coronavirus cases there, but perhaps it is the proximity to China.
Tonight we had another Where in the World Party and we met a few more people from Oregon. Then Tim and Maureen arranged a dinner for 8 with the 4 of us and a couple that they are friends with who also got on in Papeete. They made a special tempura dinner for us and Maureen asked them for another birthday cake for Michael. Lot of fun and the wine flowed.
Tomorrow is Lautoka, Fiji and we'll be happy to see land again after this unexpected stretch of 4 sea days.
This morning's lecture by Terry Bishop was about cases of people being lost at sea for long periods of time - the longest being over 400 days. This afternoon was Mitchell Symons' second part of the Prime Ministers of England. I didn't think he would, but he made it all the way through to current time.
We had to fill out a health evaluation form for the Fijian authorities and Tom and Jan will have to present themselves for a physical evaluation in the morning. I'm guessing this applies to everyone who got on in Papeete. We asked the excursion people about our land tour to Angkor Wat in March and were told that, as far as they know, it is still scheduled. One concern would be that Singapore will not allow us to fly there from Cambodia. As of now, that isn't a problem, but we'll have to monitor the situation. Apparently several cruise lines have changed schedules so that they don't use Singapore as a port. Not sure why since there aren't an unusual number of coronavirus cases there, but perhaps it is the proximity to China.
Tonight we had another Where in the World Party and we met a few more people from Oregon. Then Tim and Maureen arranged a dinner for 8 with the 4 of us and a couple that they are friends with who also got on in Papeete. They made a special tempura dinner for us and Maureen asked them for another birthday cake for Michael. Lot of fun and the wine flowed.
Tomorrow is Lautoka, Fiji and we'll be happy to see land again after this unexpected stretch of 4 sea days.
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