Day 9 Hawaiian Cruise

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Day 9 Friday, November 4, 2011 - Formal
Weather: Chance of Showers High 80 degrees Low 69
Sunrise 7:20 Sunset 6:14
Added on an hour
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We are headed back today. There is a 30 mile an hour wind we are knifing through with a 190,000 ton vessel. There was considerable dip and roll last night no seems to be sea sick from it.
We are now out of shore days with the getting on land and security checks. I checked the email and Nattalie is handling it well.

Sue is pretty wiped out form yesterday. We needed some time to rejuvenate after all of those shore days. I got some painting in. Oh the joy of good brushes. They accompanied me to the ship with a limited palette of colors. It was fun to wet on wet the landsacpes of the Maui countryside from the ship. I made the first one on the moleskine  tablet  and made a few cards of the flowers we saw in the Botanical gardens. I also got a chance to paint the wild? chickens of Kaui. A rooster was printed on the tag of one of my shirts . He became the the starting off point to my rooster series. One wet on wet with the spray background, followed up by some pigment pen. The other card started with a dry paper and a very wet brush and pigment pen to define the details.

I am reading the Steve Jobs biography that I picked up in Hilo. Its a hard bound and written by Walter Isaccson . Its pretty clean. He also wrote the biography of Ben Franklin and Albert Einstein. Steve picked him to do the biography and Walter turned him down twice.

Sue was too tired for lunch in the dining room. I had a great one.
Crustinnee with smoked sturgeon and cream cheese and scallons each on their own layer
Ruben sandwich
creme carmel for desert

Great conversation at the table with a couple from Green Bay, Southern New York, and a couple from Florida.  The green bay couple had cheeseburgers.

It was formal night and we were invited to the captain's reception. All but the passengers with the their first year were invited.They honored the passengers with the longest cruise record- a mother and daughter tied (they always travel together). They had 1,072 days on Princess. No one else was close. The captain did not shake hands with anyone coming in. due to the Norwalk restrictions. The captain introduced a short movie of the artists representation of the newest princess.. the Royal Princess 4X the size of the Golden. Its due to enter service in 2013.

It was the Chef's special night:

Dinner:
Pat: Goat cheese souffle
        French onion soup
        gnochi, in cream sauce
        strawberry sorbet
        Triology- Veal steak, Lamb chop, and chicken skewer
         Menage le Trois desert--- pana cotta, termousou, strawberry creme
         (2 small tablespoons of each) 2 cookies pistachio and chocolate

Sue: Strawberry soup
         green salad
         seared scallops
          strawberry sorbet

Romantic quote for the day: The best and most wonderful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.  Helen Keller