143/1000 internet minutes left. I was able to get a few more blogs off today so I'm catching up now. After a late breakfast, it's about 11am and we check out the Lido poolside. There's a rumor that the ship's Signature Shops are having a sale. No way! Save 50-75%? Let's go! I think we're getting towards the end and they need to dump inventory, however, this ship is going to Peru and back (30 days), the through Panama Canal (16 days) bef...

Karen is fine this morning. I hate to sound like a broken record but we're up late and off to breakfast. We try to leave in the morning for a few hours to give our cabin stewards, Luzon & Ono, a chance to tidy up the room for us. Neither of us are big breakfast eaters so we stop by the theater to catch the end of Kainoa's lecture on the Hula. The last 10 minutes are interesting, as are all of his presentations. He makes mention that he has Class A pearl j...

We sleep in a little since we lost an hour of sleep with the time change. After breakfast, we're on our way to the room when a kitchen aid asks us if we want to go on a kitchen tour. OK. We enter through the same doors that our waiters exit from with our food when eating in the dining room. The equipment is basically the same as one would have in their home except that there are many and each one is huge in comparison. Our guide points out freezers that hold ...

We are closing in on California. 84F and mostly cloudy. It's tough writing about doing nothing everyday. Sure, there are activities to pass the time while we make our way home and I'll continue to write about them. Just remember that what you all are doing is probably more exciting than anything we're doing here. How's this? "We went to breakfast. I had 3 prunes and Karen had some oatmeal, or was it muesli." Who cares? So you know, the day's...

Not a lot going on today. That's good. We don't even go to breakfast until almost 9am. Then at 10, they have the King Neptune Ceremony out at the pool area. This is a fun activity taken from a mariner's tradition that pokes fun at crew members passing over the equator for the first time. Lots of pomp and circumstance takes place with King Neptune, pirates, lifeguards and officers of the ship. Victims must first kiss this fish statue, then covered with...