6th July

Sea Day So far smooth seas Temp 28c

From the Navigator.

Throughout the night and day, Sun Princess will sail across the South China Sea. In the late afternoon, we will parallel the Taiwanese coastline on our starboard side and the Chinese mainland on our port side.

There is a new lecturer who got on in Hong Kong and he is going to talk about the war in the Pacific.His name is Bruce Petty, he is an American and he has studied the war as a historian not a participant. I went to his first lecture which was entitled “The Pacific War for Beginners” He gave a good outline of the history particularly what came before. It was interesting and I look forward to his future lectures. After lunch we went to line dancing. There have been various members of the Cruise Directors staff lead the line dancing some good and some not so good, today was a good one. Tonight once again Bev & Ian did not like the menu for dinner so they went up to the buffet. It was a Thai dinner with mainly sea food. I had something from the always available menu, chicken satays for starters and a Beef burger for main. The satays were Ok but the Burger was over cooked so I left half of it. Something which is never on the menu but I know you can order is a banana split, which I had tonight. Our entertainment tonight was a choice between vocalist Annie Francis in the Princess Theatre or Pianist Salomon Parra playing classical music in the Vista Lounge. We chose Annie who was very good and such a happy soul. We could have also gone to see Mamma Mia! At Movies Under the Stars. The ship is moving about a bit at the moment as we sail through the outskirts of the typhoon. I don’t think I have mentioned that because of the Typhoon we are missing the ports of Shanghai and Jeju and now heading straight to Incheon Korea.