Norwaylady

So what have we been doing? 🏝 Well, today I had to do some work. So I had a few office hours before we went for a walk. 4h efforts is okay🤓 We walked from Hilton to end of Kapa city. It was a nice walk by the ocean and on return we stopped by Safeway to pick up some fruit, soda and some dinner for today. After returning from our walk, we decided to try out the beach at our hotel/Lyd gate beach. It has 2 lagoon areas, nicely for snorkelling or children. Very calm water😉 And then you have the usual beach, big waves and nice for boogie board. Mr was in the ocean for a good hour, I tested the water. It was nice, but I’m very easy cold🥶 After the beach visit, it was time to collect our complimentary Mai’tai🍹 (mr is SO sad I can’t have mine….😂) We enjoyed the view over the bay and decided that we would overlook the hula show the hotel has every Thursday at 17.30. It was dancing and live music. It lasted for 35.minutes. It was a great time by the local dance group🌺 Today’s menu for dinner is sushi maki, broccoli salad and fresh fruit😌 It’s nice just to take it easy tonight. Tomorrow we have plans😇

In earlier posts we have said a word or two about not fitting the box…. Not to be rude or “boxing” people😅🤣😝 But since we are not 75+ and I’m looking as I’m still in junior high(🤣😝🤩😅) It’s the same problem all over the world…. If I don’t bring my passport, no drinks in US/NZ/AUS etc…. We are elite (nest will be to +), and have/has access when they still did canapés and drink hours 17-19. And we do get invited to senior officers captains club event. On several events we have been taken aside in the entrance door, turned around while they say: private event for elite and above…. , because they assume we don’t have access or are invited….. And then they see the status and just pretending as this is normal process. It goes to a point when you just don’t feel welcome anymore. And one of the captain’s club hosts has really made us uncomfortable due to this.

I asked and said now pineapple😝 since I’m allergic😔 So that was = to strip away all vegetables🤣🤣🤣 The fish was very good😊

Today’s breakfast is served. In our booking breakfast was included. It’s 1 beverage+1 breakfast item included. So we are sharing pancakes and avocado lobster😋

Normally we always book individually. We have much better control of the tour and we can get everything we wish for. price is not always cheaper individual. It depends on size of the group. We are 2, so it’s often not cheaper. It depends on the activity and location in the world. on this cruise, the planning started extremely late, july. We didn’t know if it would be possible and everything has been very liquid…. So safe to book by X if we were cancelled on our cruise. Normally I have everything planned, booked and finished several months before departure. For both Alaska and Hawaii it’s been hard to get tours private. Tried several companies. In Alaska we were at end of season, so many companies had no capacity/crew or already booked up. Even X shore excursions were cancelled due to lack of staff in tour companies😟 Both our tours that were cancelled/rebooked was lack of staff at tour provider. (And we needed to drive the school bus to one tour…. Bus company had no drivers left, they had left for the season😝) Same was for Hawaii, already booked up or lacking staff.So limited capacity on tours. All-in-all we were lucky on tours. They ended up great. So really happy for that🥰 it could been the other way😝

Hawaiian airlines 🌺 We are flying inter island, aka the bus🤣🤣 Flight is operated on a b717. Seated 2+2 biz and 2+3 economy. We are seated on 1f/e. Legroom is good and comfortable seat. (Unless you are long or fluffy… it might be tight;) Service was excellent. For this flight they served a soft drink and a little snack. Bag was first on belt🙃 Lyft arrived in 2.minutes and we are now checked in at Hilton Garden Inn Kauai😎 Kauai looks amazing, very lush and green🤩🏝 Room is okay. Has everything you need. We are now safe seated at the tiki bar for some dinner in the garden and enjoying our complementary Mai’tai😝🍍 (they made me a orange instead of pineapple😌) Mr ordered a Vulcan burger and i went for fish tacos( -pineapple sauce)😋

Holiday is moving forward😎🏖 Today we have been walking around in Waikiki and took a swim in the ocean next to the Hilton lagoon. Beautiful view, sun and a warm day. We had breakfast in longboard lounge. Today’s menu was bread pudding and fried eggs in hot sections. Rest was similar as yesterday. We left our luggage in the hotel around 09.30 and headed out. At 14.00 we picked up the bags and left for the airport. We will stay one more night when we return to Honolulu😊 We are now waiting in Hawaiian premier lounge for our flight to Kauai🏝 bag’s and security went smoothly. 5.mins for all things😉 The lounge is simple in service, coffee, soft drinks and light snacks. But it’s WiFi and electric sticks🙃So we are not complaining😉

What do we think about our b2b cruise? So, I will give a little text about our cruise. I will give details of what we enjoyed and what we were not to happy about. As I said earlier, we are quite easy to please. We have traveled a lot and can survive🤪😝😜😂😅 The crew on Eclipse has been excellent. They work extremely hard and we know they try their best to make everyone happy🥰 Our move from stateroom deck 11 to deck 10 went smoothly. Housekeeping has been delivering excellent service. Crew in bar/coffee has been excellent. All extremely professional and kind. We are very happy for Christian & colleges in Al Bacio and Victoria & colleges in Sky lounge. They make our day❤️ (Christians Philippines college at Sunseth Bar also know how to make my day😉) Our dining in Blu for Alaska was excellent. Made, Zein, Vin, Reagan and Vin’s head waiter (so sorry, I can’t remember the name😘) They were all extremely professional but also very warm in service. Really a great experience and a pleasure to have dinner at their tables. MDR dining on Hawaiian trip was good. Service was good. They must heard my message about coffee😂😂😂😂 But we have had a good time in mdr. Food has been good except for some plates. But not a big crisis. They do catering to many people every night….. As long as my vegetables, fish and coffee are good, I’m very easy to please. Breakfast delivered has been hot and good. All delivery’s has arrived on time and everyone delivering has been very nice and welcoming. As you probably understand I value a large breakfast menu for delivery very high. It’s my “holiday” guilty pleasure🥰🥰🥰 The dinner we had in buffet/ocean view was good. It’s a good deal if you like buffet. Several options. But I was a bit let down that they don’t offer the cold starter plates they serve in mdr. The stir fry was excellent. Crew was extremely nice and very serviced-oriented. ( buffet will never be a winner by me, but I know there’s guests that love buffet;) Tours booked on X. (All tours onboard) All shore excursions has been excellent. They have been extremely good. Great guides and service. Always water, some snacks/foods. Coffee/cacao in Alaska. When we were cancelled on the Alaska part, shore excursions helped us find substitutes and they listened to what we wanted. Extremely good compared to earlier experience😊 Shows and production shows onboard has been great. A good mix of things and type of shows. House band has been excellent. Really wanted to hear them more. Shame they didn’t play more out on pool deck on sea days. String duo was okay🙃 ( we had better before) Guitar 🎸player was excellent. The acoustic due was great, only big problem was that they preferred to play in celebrity central. (Small venue and covid…. Not my cup of tea) Captain’s club hostess did a excellent job. She spoke to us (said hello) and treated us as a normal guest. (We have attended several captain’s club events and the captain’s club hostess has taken us aside to triple check that we have “correct” status… I have one hostess up my neck🤣 he played “I don’t see you” game 2 cruises by us….. he greeted everyone except of us🙄 can’t say I really like him) So I’m very happy to just be greeted as everyone else and just said hello to😌 2 rounds on the helipad was 🥰🥰 Ports of calls has been excellent. The glaciers we visited was excellent. Our least liked port of call was Icy Straight point. It’s good in it’s own way, but we just wasn’t sold. Alaska cruise was special, we were very open minded if it would be like Norwegian fjords or different. The answer is that’s it’s different. In many ways it’s like being home but very different. It’s more vegetation/trees. And we were only 52’ n. We love to be outdoors and Alaska gives you endless opportunity’s In things to do. We are very pleased and won’t hesitate to go back. Our shore excursions was a perfect match for what we wanted. We will seriously think about it. A b2b/7-days to Sewerd/Anchorage , land tour, return 7-nights cruise would be a great combo. Then you are further north and you have “land” time. Hawaii is beautiful. Each island as of now has its own identity. As of now, Maui is the favourite. I’m very happy for the overnight stop/ 2 stops on same island. It’s all I hoped for and the weather/climate is perfect😎🥰. Persian garden on the Alaska cruise was perfect. Mr enjoyed the hot chairs and steam room a lot. I personally enjoyed the hot chair a lot. (I really like sauna/steam room, but my chronic illness makes it very hard to use… so I’m very careful now) My manicure and pedicure was excellent by Alessandra in the spa. It’s pricey, but the quality was excellent. Pool attendants has been excellent. I have been walking rain or sun, cold or hot. So they now my ritual. And we used jacuzzi’s when the majority said to cold. They have been smiling and greeted me by good morning every day I have been out. Really appreciate this and it’s great to have towels delivered to us, when we’re done in the jacuzzi🥰 Activities from the activity team/CD Sue. Sue is absolutely all-over-the-ship. First time we had Sue in 2014 on Eclipse she was all over and we had a great cruise. (I really wonder when she sleeps😅😂) Next cruise we meet Sue was on Connie in the med, again all over and a great cruise. Her British humour and style is perfect. We know she has full control over everything that’s going on. She will be on tenders, gangway at anytime of the day. We were very happy when we discovered that she was going to “run the show”🥰 Sue delivered as expected and we hope to see her again soon🥰 We didn’t attend activities by Christin & the team. (We just looked on some from distance) They arranged several games and game shows during our b2b. So nothing wrong to say on them. (We normally don’t attend to much of those activities… we like the love & marriage show and we usually attend trivia a few times during a cruise) What did not live up to standards or what could been different? Knock on woods, we have managed to stay clear of the covid🙏🏻 We have taken precautions and trying all tricks in the book to keep healthy. And we understand and totally support that the world needs to move on to “normal” standards. But as longest you go to quarantine if I’ll, things are not normal. Even if you are symptoms free. -Boarding Boarding in Vancouver for both cruises was a small nightmare. The line for security and us customs was horrible. The mix of 3 ships on Alaska sailing was really not good. Okey, all had to test before departure, but the lines and mix of 3 ships is in my opinion a great recipe of getting covid. It’s not X fault. But Canada is strictly and then they make a “perfect” party to get I’ll. Best would be on line for each cruise. -Ports of call Alaska In all ports of call in Alaska there’s multiple ships in each port of call. So we meet many ships on our sailing. If it’s necessary to use a shuttle, all ships was just stewed together in line and on buses. No force of masks in line or onboard. Again, lots of people. And all ships were either in the beginning or in the end of their sailing. In our first port of call, we meet a Princess ship and they were on return. We talked brief to someone onboard and they said lots of people were I’ll of covid onboard. Again, our ship was mixed in shuttle and no mask, no distance…. Perfect for getting it onboard😔 And people on private tours mix by other ships. So this process here is not very cleaver if you want your ship to keeping healthy…. Onboard Alaska We could hear the coughing rise 4-5 days into our cruise. More snotty people and some sneezing “out of normal” levels. Nothing different onboard, no words about masks or to contact medical if I’ll. Things went on and the day before Victoria, inside passing, we felt as we were walking in a flu pandemic. People were sitting in Sky Lounge, brought up the Kleenex box from the rooms, sneezing and snoring in wide public by the windows. No crew said a word. Why weren’t they told to leave and stay in your cabin???? People were going into theatre in the evening, coughing, sneezing and looking as hell. Obviously I’ll of something. Again, they were not told to leave, put on a mask or stay away. They didn’t demand masks or anything before we returned to Vancouver. This was a perfect way to gear up for the Hawaiian sailing😖 Rob, guests relations manager said loudly on b2b meeting that it would be no testing…. When the b2b testing was done in Victoria, they should have understood that they had been to lazy… to many b2b failed the testing😔 They should have demanded masks in the theatre and indoors several days earlier. We were on toes not happy about this. Hawaiian cruise I did send guest relations a message when the Hawaiian cruise started. I asked if they had done extra sanitary or fogged the ship while in port. Since it was so many cases of covid and many didn’t report, due to quarantine in Canada if known cases on the ship. They were all quiet. Haven’t heard a word in return…… Rob, the guest relations manager can go and fetch himself a “bolle” (Norwegian bun) its not a “good” thing when a Norwegian says: gå å ta deg en bolle… I went all in, Lysol spray and wipes on all surfaces in our new room. Since we didn’t know if it had a I’ll passenger earlier. (I always have my little sanitizer routine in hotels and places when away. But now it was the big wipe down🤪) All in all, we are happy for our cruise🥰❤️ It’s extremely nice to be back on X. It’s our favourite and they deliver what we want. We are looking forward for Easter, then it will be a Caribbean adventure on Silhouette⚓️

Breakfast at LongBoard Club was good. Fresh fruit, yoghurt, quinoa pudding, acacia bowls, croissants, Danish, muffins, pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon, cereal, bread to toast, jam, coffee, tea, juices and fried vegetables. So plenty for a good breakfast before going on a tour or beach😎 It’s from 06.00-10.00. Our tour had pick-up at 07.26. Our guide and bus arrived 07.25🙃 We travel on North Shore Beach Bus. Tour was 250,48$ for us. It was 20$ pr guest saving when I booked it online directly by them. According to their website it’s 30% sightseeing and 70% beach tour. Waimea beach looks beautiful🤩Perfect🏖 Score on ta is good. So it’s a great way to spend our day and see more of Oahu. We started the tour to the blowhole. It’s very fascinating how the water make’s it’s way and form. We had a little stop before , we continued to a nut farm. Here it was restrooms and the most expensive pineapple we ever seen😱🫣 7$ for a “boat” of pineapple😵‍💫 That’s around 1/4 of a pineapple. Hello???? On the way it was given out 2 barcodes to scan. Entrance fee for botanical garden 23.48$ pr guest and kayak/paddle boards on another stop 29$ for 1h. (The Scandinavian el-cheapo started to get a little “rash”) It’s was a macadamia nut shopping stop. You could taste all types they sold and they had local coffee for tasting. On the way to the nut farm, it started to rain. Next stop was the chinaman hat. Beautiful view but a bit cloudy and drizzle in the air. Guide called in our lunch order, so when we arrived on our lunch stop, food would be ready. We stopped at Fumis. They have shrimps. We had salt & pepper and spicy. They were excellent and good. (Reminded me of Thailand;) Lunch was 16$ each. They guide checked and pushed on it’s very important to book botanical garden fee. The Waimea beach was no option😳 After lunch we were driving onward to Waimea Botanical Garden. (Here’s we’re the account department was getting a bit unhappy) the Waimea beach is beautiful🏖😎🤩 Really all we wanted. It’s a very bitter taste that it’s “option” when it’s really not a choice. Wel well…. Waimea botanical gardens is nice, lots of trees and flowers. The waterfall sounds great😁 It’s a 30.min hike each way from the entrance. We needed to sign a waiver that we now about risk of this activity. I can say, the hike is nice, very accessible. But compared to Maui waterfalls and big island, we were not very pleased. You must wear a life jacket to be aloud into the water and it’s really not spectacular. As the good swimmers we are, my “rash” against us waivers and “safety first” had a 🔥🔥🔥 strength😝 There was no bathing for us😝 we just 🤪🥵😑 We had 1.45h in the botanical garden. Next stop was Haleiwa. That was the next qr-code. Only 29.99$ pr person for sup or kayak 1h. If you didn’t want to take part of this. You could walk into town from the rental shop or cross the road to use the canoeing club’s beach access. Not a beautiful beach like Waimea….. Mr took a half dip in the ocean and I was just a bit frustrated😝 Next stop was Dole pineapple farm🍍🍍🍍 Yes, your reading correct. I’m visiting a pineapple farm🍍😅😆 All tour seems to have this as a “must” so just to jump into it😝 Full of people and a shopping mall of pineapple merchandise😝 We had a 30.min stop. So no Maze or train ride. Dole was final stop before returning to our hotel. I was really ready just to get back. Free bar and a snack was more tempting🤣🤣🤣🤣 Not a perfect tour day in my opinion. Not what the plan says when we booked. No water or anything. On the tours by X we have had water bottles, chips or cookies, fruit. This has been in all activities we have participated in from Alaska to Hawaii. I will not recommend this tour, value-for-money feeling is 🥵😬🫠 Waiver and safety. Some words from a Scandinavian🇳🇴 Home in the Nordic we don’t sign waivers for this or that if your attending a activity. For us it’s all rational that if you participate in an activity, theirs always a risk that you can be injured or something unexpected can happen. It’s your responsibility to decide if you are fit for it or if it’s best to stay away of the activities. If in doubt, ask someone. We don’t do lawsuits or anything like in the us. We understand that if you follow instructions as given and do what you being told. You will in 99.9% be fine. And if you attend a paid activity or sports. They must have a insurance to cover if they have failed their job. ——- We are safely back in our hotel😅 Went straight to the lounge🙃 Mr wanted a beer and I said let’s go. I hear wine calling for me😂😂

So, we have spent the day on the beach. Waikiki beach is great🏖 Lovely to take a dip in the ocean and just get some sun. At 13.00 Mr was sent off to get a ice cream and some cold beverage😌 guess what??? A cold beer from ABC store arrived and a box of Haagen Daaz ice cream😂😂😂 Just got to love it🥰🤣 Around 14.00 we were “finished” being bbq grilled🔥☀️🔥. So we hopefully returned to Alohilani and asked if our room was ready😇 YES, we could get our keys and shower😁 So we have a lovely room on 18-floor. It’s a partial ocean view/diamond head room and we have access to LongBoard club. Size of the room is okay and it has everything we need. Good size balcony in the shade and a big bed. After returning from the beach we needed to shower off and unpack what we need for the next days. Mr was a bit tired of the sun, so he had a little power nap when I worked a bit. Around 17.30 we decided it was time to check out LongBoard club. They serve breakfast from 6-10 and afternoon snack 16-20. Afternoon snacks: They have a free bar in afternoon snacks hours. 2 types of local beer, 14 types of red/white wine. 1 sparkling. Buffet is a daily soup, salad, cheese, charcuterie plate, spring rolls, chef’s daily made-to-order selection. Today’s choice was ravioli, white or red sauce. Zucchini, mushroom and squash. Dessert was 3 different cakes. Coffee, soft drinks and tea. So really a great selection for a full meal. The club has a private deck and indoors lounge. Outdoor deck has sofas, dining tables, cabanas and gas fireplaces. So tonight’s menu is dinner here😂😂 (The el-cheapo account controller like this;) We only paid 20$ extra when I booked, so that was a great deal😊 If breakfast is in the same range, it’s really good value-for-money. Tonight’s plans are nothing. We need a little “dead” time tonight. Tomorrow we are going on a tour. We will be picked up around 07.30. We are doing north shore beach bus tour. So it will be a full day of fun🙃 (we hope;)

I wish all b2b continuing onward to Australia/NZ a great sailing🤩🥰⚓️ Safe travels and best of luck to keeping everyone healthy♥️ It’s a fabulous list of ports of call🤩 We would really liked to sailed further on, but that must be another time🙃⚓️ After the worst line calmed down. We went off⚓️ Bye for now, until next time⚓️♥️ Lyft arrived after 4.mins waiting and took us to Alohilani Waikiki Beach. We dropped off our bags and took a look around before we went down to the beach. The resort looks great, infinity pool, aquarium in the foyer. We were warm greeted and told that room was not ready. But feel free to enjoy everything until we text you and if you need towels or something for the beach, feel free to barrow from our rental place. 3 pieces is free pr day. Unlimited towels. We have longboard club access in our room.

We have had a good nights sleep and the last breakfast onboard for now. We went for fruit plate, eggs Benedict and porched egg, salmon and bagel in mdr😋 Coffee was picked up in Al Bacio at our excellent crew🥰 The line to get off is long🤪🤪🤪 So we are waiting in a comfortable chair. I will not stand the entire deck 4 in line…..It’s not okay distance vice and I lined up to much already in Vancouver boarding x2😝 (they asked for face masks due to higher number then preferred… well then don’t squeeze everyone in a narrow stuffed line🤯🥵😳😓) They called to many tags and it went crazy🤪🤪🤪

Last dinner is eaten and we are in bed….. Tonight’s menu set is one of the ‘preferred’ sets. We had: Starters: seafood crepes, carpaccio and Waldorf salad Main: schnitzel and meat loaf Dessert: grand mariner sufflé and cherries jubilee. The starters were good and mains were good. For dessert they had sufflé as a special tonight. The sufflé is always a winner🥰 but also cherries jubilee🥰 Desserts were excellent🥰 A good last dinner♥️

On return to the ship, it was o coffee time🥰 Lucky me, it’s lemon tart today🍋🍋 So a cappuccino and a lemon tart can help me in the process of packing😋 I must admit…. In one way I’m ready to stay onboard and sail further⚓️🤩 they have amazing stops coming up🤩🤩🤩. On the other hand, due to the tiny problem covid🦠 I’m stressed of this…. And it takes a little bit away the pleasure when I’m to stressful. The positive now is that we will have some days to see what Oahu has to offer AND we are flying to Kauai for some days there😎 So it’s more to come🤩🥳🥰 (But believe me, when the correct itinerary is available for Pacific islands, we will be sailing…..) Today’s canapés was Mr favourite box😅😉 lucky him😋 We packed up the suitcase’s and took a tour to the jacuzzi🥰 one last dip🙃 We were alone😎 Tonight’s show must go on😂 but not for us😝 We returned down to shower and change for dinner🙃 So soon it will be the last dinner for this cruise⚓️

So off we go☔️ Lyft to Pearl Harbor. It says very clear no bags, no umbrella, no , no, no……… We took on rain jackets and stuffed all necessary in my pocket☺️ We had our time to the memorial at 15.00 So Mr decided that we would visit USS Missouri before our tour. Mr was in the navy⚓️ It’s a huge ship and plenty to explore. I know my dad would really enjoy to visit Pearl Harbor. He was working in the Norwegian army when I grew up. So he was out and about for 250days every year….. So it’s special to be here.

Good morning from Honolulu, Oahu. We have docked at our final point of our cruise. The ship will stay as overnight hotel for us. (Originally we were supposed to sail, but they changed it to overnight in Honolulu) We have booked a ticket to the Pearl Harbour memorial. I did it from home the day they opened for booking. You need to book early. So we will spend the day in Pearl Harbour. This will be our last balcony breakfast for now🙃 Coffee was collected downstairs in Al Bacio🥰 They are super crew🥇 Today’s cruise compass

Tonight’s show is Euphoria. Production show. We didn’t see it on the Alaska cruise. It was the last evening when we just need to breath out😉 So tonight we will attend🤩 Change of plan😝 We went to sunset bar. Beautiful view of the sunset. And the temperature is lovely🥰So we decided to stay outside and just relax in the evening before dinner😎 Captain Zizis came on the speaker 18.50 to tell that they will demand masks in all indoor areas😰😱😰unless you are eating or drinking. Numbers are higher then okay😔 Not happy at all to hear this. But we hear lots of caught around. We tested tonight by our self before we went to Sunset. We are all healthy and feeling good🙂 The paranoia me need to just clarify that we still, knock on wood are healthy. Both tested negative. 🙃😅 (According to CD paperwork, we would have Desember 63 and the girls from last cruise as entertainment…. Well they have vanished up in smoke…. So they are probably locked in isolation…. And the comedian has done 2 regular shows during this cruise) Time to go for dinner. Tonight it was lobster night🦞🦞 We had for starter the salmon. Main course was lobster and duck. Dessert: apple pie and poached pear All tables received a plate of chocolate. The starter was excellent, the salmon is good. We had to wait for our main course. The kitchen was out of food😅 Not a big problem to wait. Mr had lobster, his favourite. They were good and size was decent. I had the the orange duck. It’s supposed to be a duck leg…. Well half a duck arrived on my plate😅 So a lot of food😝 The duck was very well done. So a bit dry…. But okay, I had dinner tonight and I won’t go hungry to bed😂😂😂😉 We ended the evening after dinner.

It’s Nutella/chocolate filled sweet bread. The canapés is a nice gesture, but it’s not a perfect combo…. I think many goes untouched in return.

Around 13.30 we decided it was enough sun on the beach and time to return to the ship. So we arrived back onboard at 14.30. We picked up some ice tea in Al Bacio and headed up to our balcony. Today’s canapés had arrived. Mr was so happy for a little shopping😂😂😁 He found a shorts and a new bathing sweater😎 And the abc store had a cold🍺…..

the only dessert in the buffet is fruit or ice cream🙃 The cakes and pastries onboard looks delicious🤩 But I’m not a big cake person🙃 ice cream on the other hand is good if it’s made properly😋 So the only thing I really like is the lava cake dessert, banana Forster , apple crumble/pie, soufflé and lemon/fruit tart they have in Al Bacio. But in small amounts😌 Mr on the other hand is a cake eater😅 I make panna cotta for dessert at home if we have guests. So the one from the ship yesterday was a pail copy compared to what it’s supposed to be/taste.

Today’s activity is beach day😎 We took the tender around 8.30. And took lyft to Kaanapali 🏖 beach/Whaler’s village😌 It’s a beautiful day😎 But….. guess what😝 dangerous… lots of shopping and nice stores🤩😍 Had to stop by Tommy Bahama on the way down to the beach…💸💸💸 They had a lovely nice bathing/sun dress and a new bikini for me🤩 (my panos emporio turned from dark blue to purple in the jacuzzi in Alaska….) So I bought a new for the beach🤩🤩🤩 Must try to look nice in Hawaii💃🏻 We found a nice location on the beach and I prepare towels and our things… Well…. Mr…… Do you have your swim shorts under your shorts today?? Oooo, no…..Didn’t you pack my bathing short? 😳🙄😬🤪🤪🤪 Well, good for you that we have a mall next door to the beach😜🤣🤣🤣 So Mr is now up in the mall, shopping for a new bathing shorts😆🙃💸💸💸

Today’s cruise compass We started the day on regular routine😎😝 Breakfast on the balcony and coffee from Al Bacio🥰

So after a little walk around after the beer, we decided it was time to return. Tender went okay. We were back onboard 18.30 and we took a express shower, get dressed and run downstairs to the Polynesian Show. We made it🤪😍 They handed out a 🌹 rose to all female guests tonight in the theatre🥰 Beautiful show of locals. It’s great that they bring them onboard tonight. I hadn’t had any coffee since breakfast today. I was SO ready for coffee…. So after the show, we went straight to Al Bacio for a “pre-dinner” coffee🙃 The Eclipse orchestra was playing big-band in the foyer🥰 I love when they do this❤️ ( I play clarinet and love big band;) Tonight’s dinner was okay. This is a evening the menu-set is a bit blah for my choice…… Specifically the entrées. It’s combination of ingredients and type of fish/meats. We had for starters the veal. (This one is very good and always a winner;) Main course: beef ( the meat was excellent cooked for my liking and tasted good) Dessert: ice bomb and panna cotta. The ice bomb is more like cold chocolate truffle style. Mr liked it🙃 The panna cotta was not awful. But did they forget to put vanilla in the panna cotta🤔🤔🤔 and theirs no colie/sauce. So it’s more a gel pudding then a panna cotta. Since it’s clear gel in the bottom tasting basil… After a full day on tour, we went strait to bed😴😴😴

Tropical rainforest🌴🌴🌳🌴 here we come😎 We were 12 guests in one group. It’s 1h drive from Lahaina to the area. You are crossing the line for dry/wet side of Maui. Really easy to see. Suddenly lots of vegetation and green lush trees🤓 We were hiking to 3 waterfalls. It’s possible to take a swim in all of them and you can jump🤪🤪🤪George tour guide was excellent. We had a great day, swimming in the waterfalls and walking in the mangrove forest😎 (this is not for those that can’t walk or have problems in knees or hips) And you need water shoes to be able to walk into the water. You are crossing a river multiple times. Really a tour for our taste🙌🏻 After the return to Lahaina it was beer’o’clock time🍺🍺🍺 Mr said he had earned his beer tasting paddle today😅 So now he is he a happy camper at Waikiki Brewing Company🥳

We are anchoring up in Lahaina, Maui today. We are staying overnight🙃 Today’s plan is a waterfall hike. Tomorrow is open. We are considering a beach day in Kaabapali. We will see what the future brings😌 Breakfast was delivered, cooked picked up😎 Great start of the day🥰