Sunday, Day 23 - Jan 28 - Cruising the South Pacific Ocean

Another sea day. We are up and dressed by 8AM after our very early bedtime last night. Since we are now getting the daily program the night before we know the church service is at 9:15AM so we head off for an early breakfast. Sunday's breakfast is a special on Regent with caviar and mimosas offered as you sit down. Dick has some caviar but we pass on the mimosas and we both get Eggs Benedict instead.


There is a nice Sunday service lead by Jamie, the CD, at 9:15AM in the show lounge. It is well attended. He does a nice devotional message and scripture readings. Plus we sing a couple of songs.

Dick goes to the historian’s lecture on WWII Propaganda in Europe at 11AM and Carolyn is off to paper curling. The plan is to finish the swan card with some leaves and flowers today. It is Sarah’s birthday and several ladies have made a card for us to sign and we sing Happy Birthday. Needless to say we now need another day to finish our cards. My swans at least look more like swans today! Sarah is a cute, funny 20 something herding a bunch of 60, 70 and 80 something ladies. We are having a lot of fun with her.

Sarah

Our cute 12 year old who is cruising with her grandmother. She comes alone.

My ducks-swans and materials

On the way back to the room Carolyn sees her AC friend at the front desk and stops to thank him for the cool room. He tells her they replaced the compressor for our area and we shouldn’t have any more problems. Hope so. It is really humid in the South Pacific.
Back in the now nicely cool room a little after noon, Carolyn finds Dick asleep! He doesn’t wake up when she comes in so he must still be really tired. Glad we canceled the tour for tomorrow in Pago Pago!

Dick sleeps all afternoon. Says he doesn’t feel good and Carolyn thinks he has a little fever. He falls back asleep and Carolyn goes up to the La Veranda for a sandwich. She then goes to the Stars Lounge to read. She is loving the series of books by J. D. Robb that Celia gave her for Christmas and is working on "Immortal in Death." The area is very quite and comfortable for reading.

June shows up about 2:30PM with a group in tow for make-up classes for all her earlier  projects. Since Carolyn missed the class yesterday she decides to see what she missed. They made bracelets out of $1 bills. It takes 14 to 18 bills to make a bracelet, but June has cut slick paper to the proper size for those without US$. There are about 25 of us doing different projects. The bracelet is cute and would make a fun gift for a grandchild.

It is now after 4PM so Carolyn goes to check on Dick and finds him still asleep. OK, he wants to be left alone. When he wakes up again she insists he drink something. He also gets up and does the latitude and longitude readings for today and sends them to our grandson who is tracking us with these daily readings.

The laundry comes back and wakes him again, but that is OK because we need to go get some dinner. We both get a light meal. Truth be known, Carolyn thinks we both got way to much sun out on the water and too hot shopping. Need to be more careful and remember we are not as young as we use to be!!!!   Bummer!!!