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I guess we should do some reporting on the meals that we are having…. There are many choices, varieties and styles…. Buffet, formal sit down, room service, your own balcony… Etc.. all these are free unless you want to go for specialty dinning …. Basically eating on a ship is an exercise of your power at self restrain…..we tried to avoid meat (unless they look really yummy 🤔) and go for seafood and vegetables… There’s always green juice during breakfast and lunch at the buffet, plenty of vegetable dishes, salads and fruits… Much more healthier choices than at home…. Lol… Here are some pics…deciding what to eat and how to eat is a challenge….. Luckily we bought some instant noodles in Honolulu and get to have a taste of home 😜

After all that speculation and chatter, they finally make an announcement of a major route change in lieu of the escalating situation at the Suez canal and middle east…we are no longer going to Asia or Middle East, but we are going to South Africa, western Africa, and loop back to western Europe and the Mediterranean via Strait of Gibraltar …. We are quite ok with this route change and applaud Princess for still keeping the Mediterranean part of the cruise which we care most! Here are the details of the changes from 2/16 till 4/15…others remain the same

So we keep turning our clock back one hour during the voyage and on the 4th time of backing, we backed into the future and lost 1/29/24…. But, we gain two certificates… Hooray!!! People who crossed the equator are called shellbacks… And people who crossed the equator and the international date line are called golden shellbacks…. We can now tell people we are golden shellbacks, woohoo 😄🙌🙌。Thank you Captain Cataldi and crews of Princess cruise 🙏🙏🙏

It’s fun, it’s hilarious and even the captain is involved…

Naptune and his queen holds court and turns pollywogs(people who never crossed the equator) into shellbacks (people who had crossed the equator) by dumping jams and creams and pastas on them and make them kiss a fish

Apparently for every voyage that crossed the Equator they went through this ceremony… Someone told me there’s also a ceremony when you cross the arctic circle, which we hope one day to experience..

3rd sea day of 6 and 3rd time change (1 hour back each time) of the trip…. We are now 3 hours behind Los Angeles…. Tomorrow, we are going to cross the international date line and lost a full day of 1/29/24 jumping right into 1/30/24…talking about time travel….. What a strange new feeling, we had lost a day by flying but never by sailing slowly …..

There have been many chatters and discussions onboard on whether we can actually make it through the red sea and the Suez canal as scheduled given the current Houthis situation…. I guess we will know for sure in about 1 month…..many seasoned passenger don’t really care that much since they have been every where multiple times…oh well, to us this unknown element adds a little adventurous vibe to the cruise… Que sera sera

There are now 10 blooms!! What seems to be strange is that these two stems seems to be blooming in tandem… 3&3, 4&4 and now 5&5…. The weather has been really hot and humid and the orchids are thriving…

….towards Fiji… Very hot and humid with occasional drizzle… While we were zumbaing on pool side open deck amongst all this craziness, a rainbow appeared…. Too bad I did not bring a camera along….

… Hauntingly beautiful and mesmerizing… And later when the sun comes out this moon becomes the brightest moon we have seen during daylight and still pretty high up in the sky…while this was going on, our friend with cabin on the other side of ship reported seeing spectacular sunrise..

We are on the starboard side (right side) of the ship and heading south towards Fiji, (our next stop was Samoa but was changed to Fiji)… So we get to catch all the sunsets and “moonsets”…. Heres today’s sunset…

From the shows nature put on at sea to the shows people put on stage.. Tonight’s production show ” latin quarter” is mui bien 🙌🙌🙌

We got asked this question a lot ever since the first cruise 25 years ago… And I am surprised we still got asked couple of days ago…..we told the nice gentleman that we were married for 36 years already and he asked if we got married when we were 12?

I think people are just being nice and trying to make a conversation which I really appreciate 😁