May 26, 27, 2015, Tuesday, Wednesday, at sea

We look foreword to sea days now as a way to relax and unwind.  On such a long voyage, we would become exhausted to have a port every single day.  However if you are on a shorter 10 day cruise, I imagine you would not be happy to have so many sea days.  You would want every day to have a new experience and then you can rest from your vacation after your vacation at home.

We have been on our journey since December 31, 2014.  It is hard to remember what life was like, but we keep talking about it to people we meet on the ship.  I miss getting up every morning to be out on the water and see the sunrise over Mauna Loa and Hualalai.  I miss playing ukulele.  I miss warmth and sunshine most every day.  We keep thinking as we get closer to Hawaii, which will be in a few weeks, that it will be sunny and warm.  Some cooler weather seems to be following us right now.  We both are thinking that if we journey like this again, which we would love to do, it will only be a maximum of three months.

The most notable happenings during these sea days were that I got to take a break from playing bridge and played Mahjong with Becky and Ann and even had a Mahjong!  I have to say that I got jokers each deal.  Anna, Becky, Barb, Sudan, Shelby, Dennis and I made a ship for the ship building contest.  Ann found a box of latex gloves.  We blew them up and put them on our hats and along the side of the empty water bottle catamaran and called ourselves "hands across the ocean".  We had great fun and thought we gave it an honest effort.  There were over a dozen entries.  

Hands acrosss the ocean - our ship

That's me helping to launch our ship.

One ship stood out above the rest because they made it about the size of the pool from over 200 empty water bottles, plastic crates  and decorated it with portholes, a swimming pool, shuffleboard court and even had a maidenhead out of a sock.  The "crew" all wore silly wigs and hats.  

  The Martini, the ship that got first place

One of the criteria was to see how many cans of soda the ship could hold.  Ours held more than a dozen.  The second place winner also had one crate which could hold lots of cargo.  But the huge ship held the assistant, Steven, in the pool who was loading the soda cans.  The prize was their photo in the Daily Currents newsletter.

David took this cool photo from the deck

That evening was Liar's Club again.  We had a similar team as last time when we won.  We missed the first word, but the second was  a word for surfer wannabe, and Joyce knew it because it was the name of a restaurant near them in Carlsbad by the Sea.  Lolliloo was another.  People behind us from S. Africa whispered that it actually was an African dance.  By that time everyone had had enough champagne which was the prize, but it was fun to toast and dance.  The Captain's cocktail party for returning guests was also before dinner.  David and I will usually have some champagne at these events.

Another beautiful sunset.