Sea Days

Day two started four days of sea days. The photograph above was our first sea day and hubby found it necessary to take a picture of me on the balcony in my robe. Bless his heart. We had 2,300 miles of ocean to cover before we would cruise into Hilo, Hawaii. That's a lot of ocean to see and during that four days we found it very exciting to see this container ship passing us. Everyone was excited. After a bit there weren't any birds. There didn't seem to be anything but miles and miles of water. Well that's because all there were were miles and miles of water.

We decided to get to know the ship a bit better and spend some time getting to know some of the crew. What a delightful bunch of folks we found too. Two of our favorite people were Miss Nancy and Wayon. They worked the Atrium bar and we spend a bit of time there each day. In the afternoons we would read sitting by the big windows (see the second photograph) and in the evening before dinner we would have some champagne. These two took very good care of us during the entire cruise. Miss Nancy made sure that we always had our favorite champagne and Wayon was always nearby if we needed anything.

On the afternoon of our much awaited Steakhouse dinner we saw this lovely rainbow. Hard to take a great shot, but it sure made us smile. The second photograph is the Filet Mignon that I had that evening. It was absolutely wonderful too.

Saturday, Sunday and Monday evenings found us in the Pharaoh's Palace watching the shows. I wish I could remember what they all were, but I can't (they didn't list the shows in the FunTimes other than Showtime Early Seating. They were fabulous shows each and every one.

The biggest excitement on the cruise to our first port of call was a medical emergency that we just happened to watch while we were working out in the gym. Each morning we would use the treadmill for an hour and we saw a Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules circling the Spirit and found out later that Coast Guard had delivered blood to a sick passenger. Read the story HERE. When we arrived in Hilo the first passenger off the ship was this lady. An ambulance was waiting at the port. She's going to be just fine, and that's great news. Below is the only video I could find about this airdrop. This plane made somewhere around 8-10 trips around the Carnival Spirit before it flew back to its base. Tons of excitement for the entire ship.