Hawaii

December 20, 2010 Monday Maui, Hawaii

At some point we realized that we had accidentally gone on our whale watching excursion a day early, so we didn't have a shore excursion planned for today. After a little confusion and failures to communicate, we got a bus excursion to the city of Lahaina. It was mostly a day to shop and walk from one end of town to the next. We played in the ocean a little bit and ate lunch at Bubba Gump. When we got back to the ship, Barbara and I went to a craft class and make a kukui nut necklaces. We had missed the Hula Dance class that day.

December 19, 2010 Sunday Maui, Hawaii This morning, we got up and ate breakfast at the buffet and then got on a bus to go on a Whale Watching excursion. The bus took us to a small boat that we road on for about three hours. It was a very bumpy ride. We saw lots of whale blow spouts, whale backs and tails flapping. It was very peaceful and calming. I didn't get any whales with my camera. I think Barbara did. After we got back to the ship, we ate lunch at The Cadillac Diner. I ate mozzarella sticks and vegetable lasagna. Then Barbara and I went for the Hula Dance lesson. It was fun. Then at 7:00 pm we went to see a program called Polynesian Dancers. It was great. Then we went to hear Tony Beau sing a tribute to the Beatles. 5 Stars! At the end, he invited people to come up and dance to twist and shout. So Barbara and I got up there and danced.

Hawaii

December 18, 2010 Saturday

My mom, my sister and Barbara started on a Norwegian Cruise ship for our cruise of the Hawaiian Islands. We flew from Las Vegas, Nevada to Honolulu, Hawaii. It took us 6 hours to fly there. We got a lovely lunch on our flight that consisted of Spinach and Egg frittata, blueberry muffin and a soft drink. A girl close to me ordered 'Pog' to drink. I didn't know what that was, but it looked like some sort of juice. So next chance I got I ordered it. It turned out to be a yummy juice called Passion Orange Guava. I thought I would see it a lot in Hawaii, but it wasn't that common. It was the biggest plane I had ever been on. We sat in the middle section, taking three of the four seats. There were two seats on each side and we were i row 35, and there were a lot of seats behind us. Nana and Barbara watched movies on individual screens that were on the seats in front of us. After Nana had watched a movie or two, she traded seats with me and I watched Ramona and Beezus. The reason being, they had paid $15 to watch movies and I hadn't. We took a shuttle from the airport to our cruise ship. It cost us $6.00 each. We got on the ship and went to our stateroom which was 4524. We went to dinner at The Aloha Cafe (it's a buffet) and had dinner. We set sail for Maui at 7:00 p.m.