6:45 AM - OK a little earlier than I was hoping for but I slept well; and there is little point in trying to force myself back so sleep, since my wonderful wife is attempting a world record for loudest (and weirdest) snore. I am genuinely concerned there is going to be a knock on our door from a neighborhood cabin, asking us to stop torturing wolverines.
I hit the gym and while I am there, we arrive at today's port, on Kaua'i. This is the most beautiful view we have had from our balcony while at a port (usually what you see most is just port!). But let me tell you, I would pay good money to golf this course (and would likely have to pay VERY good money to golf it).
You see the lighthouse? To the left, if you look really closely, is the green. There is a little flag flapping in the middle of it. That beautiful, lush green area above it is the fairway. That, my friends, is a golf hole. I would put SO MANY BALLS into the ocean, but with scenery like that, I wouldn't care.
I wonder if the other 17 holes are anything as gorgeous as that one?
8:09 AM - She's up, and the wolverines are oh-so grateful. At least I know one thing: she slept well!
Another perfectly lovely buffet breakfast and we are off to the pool! The water is spectacularly warm today. Is is barely any cooler than the hot tubs!
11:00 AM - Another pool day for the wife, I spend an hour or so there and then head back to the balcony to chill. Our luau doesn't start for a few hours so we are going to have lunch around 1:30 and then come back to get ready for it.
11:45 AM - The wife is "pooled out" for the day (a phrase I never thought I would utter) and she is back and decides to lay down for a short nap. No need to worry, I escorted the wolverines out when she wasn't around.
2:30 PM - Back to the room after a nice lunch while the wife gets ready for the luau. I will also get ready for the luau, in about 2 hours. About to see what "The Process - Luau Edition (TM)" is all about.
4:30 PM - "The Process - Luau Edition (TM)" worked out pretty well, wouldn't you say?
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| What can I say? My wife is stunning! |
One of the signatures of this particular island is wild chickens. We've seen them on other islands as well, but not like this.
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To tourists like us, it's kind of cute. Some of them are really beautiful, with colours and markings you don't often see on chickens. To the natives, they are quite a pest. There are simply no predators on this island. No mongeese, no snakes, no wolves, no foxes. The only thing that culls the wild chicken population is when the wander into the street and get hit by cars.
And you can't just eat them; the chickens we get in the supermarket have been fed grains and corn, and for those of us that source organic, free-run, grain fed birds, you can't just fry up a bird that has been living on bugs and whatever else they find in the wild.
The luau doesn't exactly start off with a bang. This is the view from our seats. You see that tiny thing way off in the distance? That is the stage.
We paid a lot of extra money for premium seating. If this is premium, I'd like to know where regular seating is? In the bottom of the pig pit?
It took me a while, but I was finally able to wrangle up a manager. We were seated at table 214, which is the table number that Norwegian had put on our paperwork. Thankfully, the manager had a master list, showing that we were supposed to be sitting here, at table 114.
Just a tad better.
I have tons of video of the show, and I will post it when I can and resend this blog link. The internet access on the ship is way too slow to upload video.
The show was amazing, unlike anything we had ever seen before. There had to be 40 different performers and each contributed to a beautiful story.
If I have not already mentioned it, the people here are just so incredibly wonderful.
10:00 PM - It takes a while to get back to our ship, as there were 750 people at the luau and every single one of them was on our ship. There are only so many buses available. Anyway, we get back eventually and hit the hay. I'm exhausted from another wonderful day.
To quote Phil Collins:
It's just another day for you and me in Paradise.
Until tomorrow....
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