Life continues on the Pacific Princess. We were in Honolulu on Saturday (the 26 th ) and Lahaina on Sunday (the 27 th ). We’ve been to both islands, Oahu and Maui, so we didn’t feel compelled to take any excursions or do any sightseeing. We did go to the local Walmart in Honolulu, which is always a joke any time you’re on a cruise. There are always passengers and even more crew members at the local Walmart. Michael was in search of his shoehorn, which he didn’t find in Walmart, but our terrific cabin steward found him one on the ship. After the laundry losing several pairs of our underwear early on during our first week, we bought some extras, only to have the bag of our laundered items recovered, again, by our diligent cabin steward. We have definitely settled in to our “home away from home” and Michael has already commented today that he feels as if we’ve been on the Pacific Princess longer than just 10 day...
More than 400 passengers disembarked the Pacific Princess in Fort Lauderdale, having started the World Cruise from there, whereas we began in Los Angeles and will end in Los Angeles. I always find it remarkable, or maybe it’s just human nature, but we see the same people day in and day out, over the course of more than three months, and nothing will be said. (It’s impossible to have discussions with every single person on the ship even though there are only 600 of us onboard.) However, on the night before disembarkation, there will always be people who will start talking to us or expressing happiness that we’ll be staying on with them for the next segment even though we’ve never spoken before. I think a sociologist would have a field day studying the microcosm here onboard which very much becomes a “them” and “us” atmosphere in the last segment. Here’s a perfect example. Almost every evening before dancing, we sat...
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