Overnight and all day long we continued to motor along at around 20 knots (relatively fast for this hull). The seas have been calm with very little 'motion in the ocean'. While today was full, it wasn't as packed as yesterday which gave it a more relaxing feel.
At the 9am coffee chat, Jonathan, our cruise director, interviewed the Unexpected Boys and we learned a bit more about them. We then had a nice presentation on Leis followed by a Mariner Society event where they award medallions to cruisers who reach certain levels of day's spent on HAL ship's. This was followed by a luncheon in the Rotterdam dining room. Given the popularity of James Grant-Peterkin's Easter Island talks, we skipped the 2:30pm presentation and attended the 4:30pm encore which was less crowded. We took in a movie 'Edie' about an elderly lady who fulfill a lifelong dream to climb a mountain. Al Trujillo is really shining on this segment with his oceanography lectures, and today's was terrific on oceanography characteristics of the eastern Pacific Ocean which we are sailing in. Later he gave a short presentation on desalination of sea water including pictures of the Maasdam's 2 types of desalination equipment.
Unfortunately, after dinner there was code 'ERT' (Emergency Recessutation Team) broadcast tonight.
Our evening entertainment was a showing of the 1992 movie, 'Rapa-Nui', a fictional tale about Easter Island and one of their major cultural events. The Main Stage was packed for the 8pm showing.
Guests are really pumped about our upcoming port stop at Rapa-Nui (as am I), and the current programming feeds that. I forgot to mention in yesterday's blog that at 9:45pm on deck 8 (entertainment and shopping deck) there was a chocolate surprise with all sorts of small chocolate goodies being distributed by the wait staff.
I'll make one other observation that the ship's internet is certainly been slow today. If I were paying by the minute, I would be ticked.
Stay tuned for more.
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