Saturday, January 23, 2016

Day 16

Day 16-sea day in South Pacific

The only new experience I had was walking 4.5 laps around the promenade deck and counting my steps. Each 1/2 lap takes me 300 steps. Also, a buddy needed to vent and I offered a listening ear.

 I just missed being about to make flower leis in the polynesian crafts workshop. They ran out of flowers even thiugh I arrived 35 minutes early for 9AM class. I attended our second solo travelers lunch and attended a lecture on the Cook Islands port of Rarotonga. I learned a new dance in ballroom dance class, Bachata, that originated in the Dominican Republic.

During breakfast there was a code announcement about room 7023. Later, we learned at dinner that Dave the bridge player, had died.

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