The sailed in was beautiful!!! True paradise… And always hear the welcome song from the rooster (this happened on every Hawaiian island!! 🤩)

Was here 2 years ago and did the waimia canyon tour, this time we choose the Fern Grotto river cruise.. It’s super fun where they serenade us with Hawaiian music and hula dance while sailing towards a landing where we can view the fern Grotto….they performed a Hawaiian wedding song right on the fern Grotto spot (it’s a popular wedding venue) and on the way back the captain gave us a bit of the history

After this we went to the wailua Falls… A fall of au dance

The Uber driver that took us there is an amazing elder lady with a white ethereal butterfly on her white hair… Shes a great guide of kauai and she wrote a book….. Amazing woman who is also a massage therapist that’s also into reiki and energy work

Afterwards we came back to the Port area and then lunch….. Thai food with a precious sea view

I emerged from our 9 sea days intact!! Woohoo!!

3rd visit to Honolulu, decided to finally check out Pearl harbor and the USS Arizona Memorial…

There’s a bus stop just 5 mins walk from the pier and the wonderful thing that happened there is I get to pet a fluffy cutie dog and talk to the friendly owner…. It kept sticking out his arms to shake hands…. Melt my heart 🥰

The ride by bus to pearl harbor took about 50 mins and it stops right in front of it.

Its a very respectful and solemn procedure where they gave us a short talk before ushering us into a boat that goes to USS Arizona

At anytime on the USS Arizona memorial, there’s only one boatload of visitors, we have about 10 to 15 mins to soak in everything before the next boat arrived to return us back to Pearl Harbor memorial

After this very meaningful stop, took a bus back and stopped at Honolulu’s very vibrant Chinatown….

Had a delicious lunch there.. Soup Udon and musubi 😋

And then take a leisure walk back to the ship!! Easy half day tour all by myself 🤗

Spending the rest of the day enjoy

Every time I falled for the Hawaiian super vibe, whether it’s the air, or the people or the hula dancers… They all seemed chilled and graceful and going with the flow of the wave or the universe…. You felt relax and peaceful here….. Thanks for showing us how wonderful life can be Hawaii 🥰

P disembarked here today and fly back to Los Angeles tomorrow….. He’s on his own in Tokyo and I joined an excursion to the following places

Tried some food on nakamise st that’s right in front of the temple….

Japan street views….

Meanwhile…. P is on his own..  One of the exciting things he did was trying the capsule hotel….. He loves it!!!

And zip air

Happy Halloween!! Our favorite crew member Rafa dress up as a pirate with a skeleton monkey… Brilliant !!!

Today is also our flash mob performance day….. Lots of rowdy fun and laughter…. I really like Anthony’s choreography and loose attitude… He knew how to work the crowd….

Later we have a drink with our world cruise buddies

…. And later in the night the fun goes on… It’s the Halloween party and some people are going all out for it!! We were not prepared but now we are….  Lots of fun and dancing

Beautiful weather greets us in Osaka port

We joined a ship excursion to visit couple of attractions in kyoto

First stop is the buzzling Nishiki fish market, they only gives us 30 minutes and definitely not enough time 😆

2nd stop is the golden Pavillion with temple made of gold

3rd stop is lunch at a hotel with a beautiful garden nearby so we wolf down the bento lunch and took a quick walk

After lunch we went to the famous Kiyomizu temple

This place is packed with people… Many tourists rented a kimono to come visit this temple

Had delicious canapé with our happy hour

Princess crab shack invited us back for a do over and much better this time 😋

The ship is ready for Halloween

Very rocky sea today…. Ship is facing strong head winds…. P woke up in the middle of the night sea sick…. But he was still able to caught a full rainbow right outside of our balcony in the morning… What a thrill….

Someone gave us two butterfly magnets… And we bought a googly eyes halloween thing yesterday at Keelung and voila….

The sunrise view against Keelung port is beautiful… So happy to be back even for just half a day…

The stop at Keelung was very invigorating…. Bought a lot of daily stuff, ate a hotpot lunch, had coffee, ate some shredded ice desserts, some stinky tofu, bought some bread, some mochi… Etc… We returned totally satisfied ✌️

I haven’t been back in almost 4 decades now…. Hong Kong changes a lot but in some places still stays the same..

City is still humming and buzzling…. Cant imagine living in one of those little apartment units like before…. But we do enjoy it’s cosmopolitan landscape and Harbour view….

The light show at Ave of the stars that involved 40 buildings between Kowloon and hong Kong island is cool!!

The usual activities with the same enjoyment all around…. In Zumba class I was right in front of instructor Rafa and I can totally feel his energy and that makes me dance even more merrily

The flash mob class has 4 songs to rehearse, uptown funk, beat it, all the single ladies and gunman style.. Lots of fun and lots of cool moves

Wait. There’s something new!! Learn Bon Odori Japanese dance class today. There’s the coal mine dance and squid dance… Very interesting