Sea Day – January 25

We continue on our South-Southwesterly course in the Pacific Ocean. We were supposed to see Ocean Data Acquisition System Buoys. They are intended for the collection of data of properties of the ocean. Some are moored and some are free floating. OK, we didn’t see one.

After breakfast, we walked the track again and then went to Bingo. I won AGAIN! $40.00, this time bringing the total to $270. Greg still remains Bingo-less. The weather is warm again, but we had a sprinkling of rain. While walking the track we saw a small rainbow on the horizon.

Lunch was interesting today. Some very well-traveled folks to talk to. Then, one lady complained about her dinner table mates and said she wants to change tables or stop going. She said she just can’t eat with people that don’t believe in climate-change. I’m not sure why people can’t listen to other people’s opinions whether you agree with them or not.

We had just commented that in this part of the ocean we don’t see other ships or even birds and haven’t been seen for a couple of days. At first, we were seeing some flying fish, some whales and dolphins. Anyway, just to prove us wrong a bird flies by. Greg gets a shot and I got the binoculars and it was a Red-footed Booby. (yes, Scott the “elusive Red-footed Bobby”….ha ha) So, that was another new bird for us. We saw 2 or 3 of them.

 Red-footed Booby

We already had a 60 day South America cruise on the Island reserved for next January. I contacted my TA to see if we can rebook using a future cruise credit which we can get here on board and she said Princess is running a really good promotion right now and it would save a lot of money to cancel our existing reservation (after we secure a new one) and rebook onboard. So, we did that and it was quite a savings with some extra perks. The booking will then be transferred back to our TA.

We were invited to a gathering in Karen and Steve’s suite before dinner for a few of us that met on the 2013 WC. The suite is lovely and they are wonderful hosts. I'm sure others got better photos than we did.

 Janie, Rick, me

Julie & Jeff, Steve & Karen

After dinner, we went to the show which was Alison Ward a vocalist. Yikes! We have no desire to see a repeat performance of her. (different strokes for different folks)

Yep, another day at sea tomorrow! Good thing we enjoy sea days.