This was a very quiet sea day. Until it wasn’t.
After breakfast, I spent some time in the casino (just long enough to lose $30, down $200), and played some cards, then returned to the cabin and spent several hours blogging. That took me to dinner (filet mignon – very good but not as good as the chateaubriand) where Marlene got angry with me for using my phone. I was trying to show Evie the photos I had taken of her in Tokyo but the internet was slow. Apparently I violated some unspoken “waiting too long for the internet” rule. I don’t know exactly what my crime was as she refused to speak to me the rest of the night.
I attended the evening movie: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Not great, but pretty good. Definitely better than John Wick but with a plot that may have been as ridiculous. No matter. It was fun.
Upon returning to the cabin I learned that our Philippines stop has been cancelled, courtesy of Typhoon Koinu. It is a disappointment – the third of our original 8 ports to be skipped. But I am mostly disappointed for Evie and Deb who planned to take an excursion on an underground river. And for Rose, the singer in the Luminosa Rockband, who was planning on seeing her young child for the first time in 5 months.
Tomorrow we are docking in Okinawa. As Marlene and I were not planning on going ashore in Indonesia, this may be our last time on land until we reach Australia. Hopefully we will be talking again before we get there.
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