This was a very quiet sea day. Until it wasn’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After breakfast, I spent some time in the casino (just long enough to lose $30, down $200), and played some cards, then returned to the cabin and spent several hours blogging. That took me to dinner (filet mignon – very good but not as good as the chateaubriand) where Marlene got angry with me for using my phone. I was trying to show Evie the photos I had taken of her in Tokyo but the internet was slow. Apparently I violated some unspoken “waiting too long for the internet” rule. I don’t know exactly what my crime was as she refused to speak to me the rest of the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I attended the evening movie: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny<\/a><\/em>. Not great, but pretty good. Definitely better than John Wick<\/em> but with a plot that may have been as ridiculous. No matter. It was fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Upon returning to the cabin I learned that our Philippines stop has been cancelled, courtesy of Typhoon Koinu. It is a disappointment – the third of our original 8 ports to be skipped. But I am mostly disappointed for Evie and Deb who planned to take an excursion on an underground river. And for Rose, the singer in the Luminosa<\/em> Rockband, who was planning on seeing her young child for the first time in 5 months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Tomorrow we are docking in Okinawa. As Marlene and I were not planning on going ashore in Indonesia, this may be our last time on land until we reach Australia. Hopefully we will be talking again before we get there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This was a very quiet sea day. Until it wasn’t. After breakfast, I spent some time in the casino (just long enough to lose $30, down $200), and played some cards, then returned to the cabin and spent several hours blogging. That took me to dinner (filet mignon – very good but not as good … Continue reading