Today is our last sea day before we reach Pago Pago in American Samoa tomorrow morning. Stephanie and I were dragging a little this morning, maybe due to the time spent in the heat yesterday while crossing the equator, or the over indulging dinner we ate last night. Neither of us slept well, most likely due to all of the rich food, chocolate desserts, cappuccino coffees and maybe a little due to the generous servings of wine we had with the dinner. Anyway, we felt tired most of the morning.
We did seem to feel a little better after eating breakfast. Then it was off to another Ukulele class, the last before we do an actual dress rehearsal after leaving Tahiti in several days.
The seas and wind were much calmer today, there was a slight swell, but no white caps on the water. However, it was really hot today, the temperature at noon was already 85 degrees F. I walked some laps around the sun deck for exercise while Stephanie laid out in the sun. Unlike some of the Caribbean cruises we have been on, there is no issue getting deck chairs on this cruise, no one seems to want to be out in the heat, most everyone is staying under cover or just staying inside. Probably an age related difference from the normal younger Caribbean cruise crowd who like to be out in the sun and heat.
We sat in the sun for a while before we went to lunch at about 2:00 PM in the buffet. After lunch, we returned to our chairs on the sun deck trying to get a little bit of a tan before we are exposed in the sun more when we make the next few stops in Samoa and French Polynesia.
We do not arrive in Pago Pago until 10:00 AM tomorrow morning, so we do not have to get up as early as we did when visiting the Hawaiian ports. We are not really scheduled to do anything in particular tomorrow in port, we will probably tour some around the town, and/or maybe head over to Tisa’s Barefoot Bar to look around, and maybe do some snorkeling.
We attended dinner in the buffet tonight, there was nothing spectacular on the menu in the dining room, and there were two shows we wanted to attend, the first starting at 9:00 PM, so we did not want to be late. Sometimes, the dining room experience is just too slow to make it to a show early enough to get a seat.
There was also an adult humor English Pub Show tonight at 10:00 PM that we attended in the Club Fusion Lounge that was very funny.
We are scheduled to change our clocks back another hour tonight, I believe due to the fact that American Samoa is still on Daylight Savings Time, so tomorrow, we will be 7 hours different from the East Coast.