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...
Probably in recognition of our recent surpassing 500 days of cruising with Princess, we were invited by the Captain to an exclusive visit to the Bridge on Friday morning - not everyone onboard gets to do this. The bridge is on Deck 8, the same deck as our stateroom and can actually be seen from our balcony. Although our stateroom 8011 is considered in the “forward” section of the ship, the Captain’s and his officers’, as well as the Cruise Director’s, staterooms are even more “forward” and closed off from the rest of the passengers. Gathering at 10 a.m., we were escorted through those locked doors down the corridor passing various staterooms and brought into the bridge area. We were greeted by Rob, one of the Officers onboard from Canada. He was very gracious and accommodating and answered questions as we went along. Lots of technical information was given but the bottom line is: “We are very safe ...
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