Thursday, April 24, 2025

Celebrity Solstice - day 15 - sea day

We lost an hour (the last "spring forward" of the cruise) on Monday night, so decided to order coffee/tea and toast to eat on our veranda on Tuesday morning. 

We have been surprised by the moaning sounds of the wind on our balcony -- Carl tried to take a video to share the sounds of our balcony with you, and... for about 25 seconds you may hear the wind noises (though it doesn't seem to allow you to hear the moaning wind that we hear) -- but then at the end, there is the sound of our neighbor's coughing (and Carl's strangled laugh/cough) -- https://youtu.be/oKJaVYj1qE0  Unfortunately for us (and more so for our neighbor), it sounds as if she is about to cough up a lung, morning, noon and night. They keep their balcony door open pretty much all the time, so we continuously hear the hacking and deep coughs.

We also got to see flying fish off our balcony -- and we tried to get a video -- if you see anything on this short video that looks like white moths just above the water, that's the flying fish: https://youtu.be/VwGXZ_v8AMM

A better video (from the BBC) of and about flying fish can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk7McNUjWgw 

More information about flying fish (from Wikipedia) here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_fish

In the afternoon, our "Hawaiian ambassadors" and students from their hula and ukelele classes gathered on stage...

... and entertained us with hulas and playing and singing ("I wanna go back to my little grass shack" hula: https://youtu.be/9MqWtdQ2_k8)

The Hukilau Song hula and ukelele: https://youtu.be/HoT8XsPie4Q

After the hula and ukelele presentation, Wendy Law provided another cello concert which we enjoyed.

We enjoyed dinner in the dining room but didn't make it to the evening theater show. We're coming to the conclusion that 15-17 days might be the longest that we are able to "enjoy" a cruise; after that, we come to the point of no longer wanting to participate in all the interesting things available to us!

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