A week more at sea...still! At noon we were 1 degree north of the equator which we will cross tomorrow. It's sunny now which the Captain said should be true for the foreseeable future. Still not too warm...80 for a high today. Water temp is 82. Seas are still quite calm, though there's enough motion that you know you are on a ship. Lost another hour last night.
An excellent presentation by our onboard expert on Polynesia this morning...mostly about the formation of the islands we'll soon be visiting.
Have succumbed to the various "crisps" found only at lunch...yesterday was mango, today was apricot. I've been good about the assorted sweet rolls at breakfast and bread at lunch...but these crisps will have to be accounted for! (I have just a teeny bit...does that count?)
Today was a lazy, antisocial day...Chris worked on his computer organizing some of his video/photo stuff and did his exercise, while I knitted, read, and did a bit of computer work. It's very difficult when you are used to the internet being accessible all the time. You forget how much is stored in the Cloud, Dropbox, etc. (even though I tried to download important files into my laptop.). With everything going on all around the ship, it's nice to have quiet time in our cabin once in awhile. (Just began reading "In Farleigh Field" which so far is grabbing my interest.)
Jan. 14: Another lazy day...finished "In Farleigh Field"...light read, but interesting. Went to a lecture on Raritonga, and to an excellent America's Test Kitchen about fresh pasta...how to make it with and without a pasta machine, etc. Chris went too and enjoyed it. We both got the ATK aprons which are wonderful (I had gotten one on a previous cruise and love it.). We crossed the Equator at 10:21 in the morning...no big deal on this cruise...they'll do the Captain Neptune bit on our last crossing in April (we will cross it 4 times on this cruise.). It's been strange that the temperatures are quite cool for what we expected...only high 70's. Water temp is cooler now, too...low 70's. We have been surprised at the cool temps this whole week, but apparently it's not normally this way.
Jan. 15: A couple of lectures we want to listen to today (on Papeete and Capt. Cook's Voyages) and it's Gala Night so I'll have to get out the crown jewels and do nails and things. It's the Black and Silver Ball...not that we will attend, but we'll be dressed for dinner in the dining room before. Photos to come ;-)
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