Category: 2019

(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 […]

Written by Kim We were up and out early to get our car and beat the traffic to the road to Hana. We were on the 5 am tender (but both woke before our alarm will we ever adjust to the time). Got our car in the parking lot in town, grabbed a quick bit […]

(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 […]

Written by Kim Another day at sea today. Went to the top deck to walk but only got a few laps in before needing to go to gym due to rain. Attending my first meeting in a long time the consecutive cruisers meeting but luckily I wasn’t responsible to track action items or follow ups […]

(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 […]

(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 […]

Had a bit of a chill-axing day today. The track was open so a good walk outside which I enjoyed. My knee is bothering me a bit not sure what is going on but trying to keep moving despite the tenderness. We joined the progressive trivia this morning. We are doing ok probably middle of […]

Had a fantastic day at sea. We were up early so went to the gym. I prefer to walk on the deck but it was too windy so they were not letting you out on the top deck where the track is. The gym was very crowded at 6 am. Needed to do some laundry […]

Today we enjoyed our first port, Seattle. We were here in Seattle last year and saw some of the sites so we decided to do a free walking tour of Pike’s Market. We love the European style free walking tours because the guides are always characters. Joe, our guide was excellent sharing the history and […]

Our hop-on hop-off tickets we bought yesterday were good for 48 hours, so after breakfast we decided to kill some time and ride the bus around the city for over an hour. We had seen most of these areas before, so there were no shocking revelations. But it was still good to take one last […]