October 8 - Day 4 On The Pacific

Today is Thanksgiving and Princess has gone all out to celebrate the occasion.  The main piazza has been decorated with red and white balloons and Canadian flags.  This is only fitting as the large majority of passengers seem to be Canadian.

Marg went to her hula dancing class in the afternoon. She says it is hard to coordinate all the different movements with hands, arms, torso, hips and legs. Tomorrow they will be putting on a demonstration,  That should be fun to watch.

I went to the third lecture on Hawaiian history and geography by Dr. Gary Fuller.  The lecture was supposed to about Captain Cook and his last voyage that resulted in his death in Hawaii.  Instead a good portion of the lecture was about the division of property in Hawaii. Apparently nineteen entities own eighty five percent of the land on the Hawaiian Islands.  The largest entity, the Bishop Trust, funds private education schools for any student who can prove they are native Hawaiian.  He also talked about genetic differences between the different Polynesian tribes, such as Hawaiians and Samoans. I find his talks to be extremely interesting.

The weather has gotten warmer today and the sun has come out on occasion. We had a beautiful sunset.

During the evening we went to see a singer named Doony Ray Evins.  He had show where he sang songs by Nat King Cole.  He had a great voice and an easy manner with the audience. It was thoroughly enjoyable show.

For dinner we had a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with turkey and pumpkin pie.  The only thing that was missing was mashed potatoes. 

Rocky, Marg and myself went to a musical quiz after dinner, where they would stop a song and you had to guess the next line of the lyrics.  We didn't fare very well with only about a half the songs answered correctly.