Jan. 17 Wednesday

Two more sea days until Nuku Hiva! Our first land in 8 days. Today, I went to a class about "na lei" (the plural of lei) and saw SO many beautiful lei from all over the world. I never really knew what they meant, so I'm looking forward to getting one in the islands to bring on the ship. In the afternoon I went to a class to make parachute cord bracelets...ah, the old macrame knots came back! It took awhile, but I soon remembered. Our crafts personnel are fantastic! They have lovely things to make on sea days.

The other night we received the two games for pillow gifts...well, someone had opened it up to see what kind of game it was...it's Monopoly for cruisers...so won't be a total waste. IF we can find a way of packing them in our luggage along with all the other stuff we've been given...and that's before we've really done any shopping in any ports!

Chris got his hair cut this morning...short...but with the hot weather coming up, it'll be fine.

Last evening we walked the deck (nice time to do it...not very many people as you can see!) and then headed to the Crow's Nest for a Baileys before bedtime. Lots of clock setting back this week...including tonight that is for 30 minutes! My body clock is way off now.