Written by Alex Crossing the International Date Line for the first time is weird. We had been 7 hours behind New Jersey for a few days and suddenly – BOOM – we are 17 hours ahead! Hello Tuesday! The engineer in me had to figure out what happened to our 24 hours. Basically we pick […]
Author: Alex Grebel
Day 26 – It’s all downhill from here!! (10/12/19)
Written by Alex Sea day 3 of 5 between Tahiti and New Zealand and we suddenly are feeling the cruise end getting nearer. That seems odd with 7 days remaining, but when you’ve been cruising for 22 days already, 7 days seems like nothing! This morning the weather was beautiful – we are beginning to […]
Day 22 – Bora Bora Dreaming (10/8/19)
Written by Alex Six days at sea brings on a lot of dreaming of an idyllic day in Bora Bora, one with brilliant sunshine, clear water, swaying palm trees and a light breeze. Unfortunately, Mother Nature has other ideas! A cloudy, cool (by South Pacific standards – 77F/25C) and drizzly day greeted us. We had […]
Day 20 – Lazy sea day on the South Pacific (10/6/19)
Written by Alex – very late on this one just because… 😁 Day 20 might have been one of the quietest days we’ve had on our cruise. There was no trivia, so we instead went to the Captain’s Corner. We had done it on the last cruise and it’s always interesting so we went again. […]
Day 17 – Heading southbound again! (10/3/19)
(Written by Alex) Kim and I were awake when the ship arrived in Honolulu at approximately 1am. They didn’t dock, but rather dropped a lifeboat/tender and transported the patient to shore. We estimate that the ship was back in route to Tahiti by 3am, approximately 29 hours later than scheduled. Praying the passenger is fine. […]
Day 15 – Touring Oahu with Tony, Wendy &….. Barry (10/1/19)
(Written by Alex) We had decided yesterday that we wanted to drive our rental car early out to Makapu’u Lighthouse and make the hike up the hill to see the views. We mentioned to our Aussie friends from the Diamond Lounge (Tony and Wendy) that we had plenty of room in our rented mini-van if […]
Day 13 – Big Island, Big Fun! (9/29/19)
(Written by Alex) A super special thanks to our friends Brooke and Ben for taking a Sunday day off on the Big Island of Hawaii and showing us around! It was really a great day and would never have been as good on our own! 🤙 We managed to get off the ship early and […]
Day 11 – Maui wowie! (9/27/19)
(Written by Alex) What a really fun day in Maui! Because Lahaina (and all of Maui) doesn’t have a deep water port, Ovation of the Seas has to take passengers in via tender boats. They have six life boats that they can also use as tender boats. We got in line a little before 7 […]
Day 9 – Hawaii dreaming (9/25/19)
(Written by Alex) Our fourth consecutive sea day started like most of the others, although we made the mistake of waiting a little too long (8 am) to venture out the the track. Because it’s getting warmer, activity by the pool has increased substantially. So the upper deck was loaded with both walkers/runners and people […]
Day 8 – Halfway to Hawaii! (9/24/19)
(Written by Alex) We have started to settle into a bit of a routine here on board with these consecutive sea days. The toughest part of the first three days has been the setting the clocks back an hour each day. We are constantly waking up at 3:30 or 4:30 am because we’ve gained three […]