Cruise Critic Poker & Pub Crawl

Today is the second sea day after leaving the Hawaiian Islands. From now on it's all new territory for us.

It's not hard to pass away time on these sea days. We tend to get our workout in after breakfast on the
jogging track to help ward off the almost certain weight gain on the cruise! LOL So far it's working pretty good. Then we settle down into deck chairs and do a bit of reading and before you know it, it's time to eat again! HAHA Today we did something we've never done before.....the Cruise Critic group that we are a part of on this ship organized a Poker & Pub Crawl this afternoon. For $5 each we got a scorecard and pulled a playing card out of a bag at 5 different bars on this ship. We didn't win anything with our cards but it was fun to visit with others. Many of these people have been on cruises all over the world and it's great to get cruise tips from them about places to go, etc.


After the Poker & Pub Crawl with our 'losing' cards.


Tomorrow morning at approximately 5:00 - 6:00 am we will be crossing the equator. Terry has been in contact with a fellow runner who is organizing a 5K run on the jogging track--that's 31 times around the 1/10 mile track for 3.1 miles during the time that we cross the equator. Hopefully the ship will let them run that early in the morning. Around 11 am the ship puts on some kind of crossing the equator cermony, which we hear is silly but fun. I think it involves kissing a big fish and first-timer "pollywogs" become "shellbacks". It came from an old naval tradition I think.
Our next ports of call are in Tahiti, French Polynesia. We stop in Moorea, Papeete, and Bora Bora. Yesterday the room stewards had to collect all passenger passports to be presented to French Polynesian Immigration upon arrival at Moorea on Sunday in order for ship's clearance to be granted. We get them back after Bora Bora. That was something new to us. Our room steward was happy that his cabins were cooperating in giving up the passports. I can imagine that some people on this cruise would give a lot of flak about this.....there are complainers on this ship...but that's another story.

Sailing away towards the equator,
Terry & Joyce