Day 10 Hawiaan Cruise

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Day 10 Hawaiian Cruise Saturday, November 5, 2011
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I Checked the mail-email- messages sent and received. I bought a new coffee card to get me through the cruise. I did laundry on Deck 5. Later I found about three others all around the ship, and some were even closer. $2.00 wash $2.00 dry and $1.00 for soap. I had read that I needed quarters for the laundry from some nice people that blogged their trip on the web. No one was using the two washers or dryers that were in this compartment early in the morning. I watched the "coin" man come and get the money out of the machines and haul it away in a little cart. He was on his last cruise before he was off. He was pretty happy that there would not be any more coin collections on this cruise. The laundry was just down the hall from the art gallery and the piazza center. It still made it easy to get the clothes going and go get a coffee while they whirled and spun. We just needed a little bit of laundry done from this or that to make the one more formal night happen.

I got Sue up and we headed to do ceramics. Its one of the things that Sue liked to do when we were on the Alaskan Princess voyages. On this ship its a closed one table kind of thing.  The table was sitting in one floor above us perched out above the indoor pool. Sue accidentally bumped a sun chair with an older lady in it. She got pretty upset . I informed the lady that she was way in to the passage space area with her chair and we couldn't get by without a bump. She said at least you could have said excuse me.
Sue was pretty upset about the lack of access to the event and the whole attempt.

She ate a quick scoop of shrimp slaw from the international cafe and headed back to the room.

I took her back and then had lunch in the dinning room.

I met a family from Madison Wisconsin. In conversation I found out that the mad worked for CUNA- now retired three years.  There was also a couple from Nebraska and one from Ohio.

I got to talk health care plans with the insurance man. His office was union covered and he negotiated their contracts. Just as he was retiring, their company pulled their retiree health care package.
He had to go outside to get a $10,000 deductible policy,


He asked me what I thought we should get into at the end of the health care issue. I said a single payer plan.


I watched some college football (we got ESPN2 on the room TVs) Iowa beat Michigan in the last moments of teh game. I heard reported that Stanford had beaten Oregon State.


I did some more painting in the room. Sue did more reading with the books we bought in Kaui and some that people had donated to the pile in the library (paperbacks). We donated a half a dozen too that we had already read.


I completed the rainbow over Lahaina Maui that was scanned and inserted in a previous entry.


Dinner: Sue  Hamburger and fries at the outdoor stand
Pat: Hawaiian fruits and macadamia nuts
        Leg of lamb
        Prime Rib
        Chocolate Brandy Cake
        Banana brioche bread pudding with caramel sauce