Friday, April 5, 2019. At Sea

Friday, April 5, 2019. At Sea

Another day on the sunny Pacific Ocean.  Our day started out with breakfast in the dining room followed by our warm-up AM trivia.  We didn’t shame our selves but lost by 4 points, which was pretty bad for us.  We didn’t know what color suit Michael Jackson sports on the cover of the Thriller album, the year of the Great Chicago Fire, and a few other choice bits of trivia.  We did learn that Chubbie Checker’s real name was Earnest Evans, for future reference.

Our last progressive trivia quiz was also today.  The scores from yesterday had shown we had moved up to tie for second place with 2 other teams, trailing the leader by just 1 point.  We will have to wait until tomorrow to see who won the progressive trivia.  

We stuck around for an Art trivia, which we have not ever done before.  It is run by the Art Gallery staff, rather than the Cruise Director’s staff.  We ended doing better than we had anticipated, but the winner was on a first name basis with the host, and someone who apparently spends a lot of time in the art gallery buying items.  

After lunch, we relaxed in our stateroom watching movies, and Ben got in a workout at the fitness center. We watched a Transformers movie “Bumblebee” and Hearts Beating Loud, getting them checked off our list of movies to watch.  

After an early dinner, we met up with our regular trivia partners and did 70’s music trivia, scoring 40/45 with song titles and artists, but the winning team had a perfect score of 45/45.  We need to work on our heavy metal band recognition.  

The ship’s Hawaiian cultural ambassador, Tiki Dave, who gave enrichment lectures on Hawaii, put on a musical show backed by the Princess Orchestra, and he did a good job, playing music from the 60’s and 70’s, and getting the audience involved.  

Our clocks go forward another hour tonight, back to West Coast time.  We received disembarkation instructions under our door tonight- a sad reminder that the cruise is nearly over.  But with all these sea days, and the weather at home getting nicer and nicer, we will be looking forward to getting home to get our vegetable garden planted and boat prepared for the upcoming boating season.