Friday, April 29

The Sterling Steakhouse did a wonderful job looking after us last night.  We teamed up with our Trivia partners and we all had a wonderful meal.  Typically, the ship's photographer came around to take photos and, as we were leaving, he had a whole pack for us to look at.  There was a large one in a fancy frame, individual smaller ones in frames, lots of others in various sizes, and a novelty Princess USB drive with all the photos on it.  It was at a bargain price so we took the lot.

We offloaded 3.5 kg of excess baggage at Brisbane and we're well on the way to replacing it.

We're in Rabaul today and it's everybody's idea of a port on a tropical island.  A jetty with sheds, lots of discarded machinery, the harbour with rusty tramp steamers and lush vegetation right down to the shore. Again, we didn't get off but the passengers who did are complaining about the heat and humidity.  

We woke early this morning especially to watch a movie on the cabin TV.  It was Mr Holmes with Ian Kellan playing a 93 year old Sherlock. This afternoon they showed The Martian with Matt Damon.  We've never seen so many films in such a short period before.

The show tonight is Piano Man. Our plan is to have our meal in the Buffet and go on to the show from there.  Just another day in paradise