Tuesday, April 2, 2019, At Sea

Tuesday, April 2, 2019. At Sea

Janet has managed to come down with a cold and was sniffling and struggling to breathe last night. During our Hilo excursion, we went into the Volcanos National Park visitor center and sat briefly in the theater when it became abundantly clear that several kids sitting right in front of us were sick, coughing and hacking like crazy.  We left the theater, but maybe not soon enough to avoid that virus.  We had to dose Janet up with meds to keep her from having to stuff a Kleenex up her nose.  

We did manage to keep busy the entire day with little down time.  We started with the naturalist’s enrichment lecture on sea birds, and then hit our first trivia of the day.  Our usual team joined us, but we fell 4 points behind the winners.  Somehow, someone knew Watt Tyler lead the peasant’s revolt in 1381, and the University of East Anglia was located in Norwich ( it would have been a major advantage to have someone from England on the team).  

We had lunch in the dining room  and then hit our fourth installment of the progressive trivia in the early afternoon.  We did a little better, scoring 8/10, but having someone from England would have clinched it since we had no idea of what river flows through New Castle, Gateshead and Jarrow.  Did you know a 2 man bob sleigh is called a boblet?  

Janet was able to get her book finished and Ben got in a workout at the fitness center in the afternoon before our next trivia, for which we tagged in with couples from Florida and Texas, whom we had sat in on afternoon trivia with before.  But we were 2 points off the lead.  Do you know what South American Country’s name means from water to water?  

We had to get into our formal clothes again but were a little suprise that the menu didn’t really offer anything special for our formal night.  There was roast beef and Cornish game hen, but no prime rib, lobster tail, or even tiger prawns.  They did have the Chocolate Journey Hazelnut bar for dessert, so perhaps it was worth it getting changed after all.  

The Princess Theater featured a magician who did mostly mentalist tricks and some card tricks.  We have seen all these tricks before, but still can’t figure out how they’re done and he kept us entertained.  

We finished the evening watching a rather dumb movie called Alpha on the on-demand video about a whimper caveman who befriends a wolf. At least we didn’t have to pay to see that in a theater.  

We imagine the next 3 days are going to be pretty much the same, but somehow, we stay very busy, entertained and well fed.  Life could be tougher.