Day 79

Day 79 – Puntarenas to Los Angeles – Thursday 2/8/12

Weather – Fine and Sunny. 27C – 30C

Sunrise – 6.04am

Sunset – 7.02pm

Time difference - minus 16 hours ex Sydney

Throughout the day Sun Princess cruised on a north-westerly course through the North Pacific Ocean. At around 1.45pm today we passed the Golfo De Tehuantepec which is a large body of water on the Pacific coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, southeastern Mexico. Most of the hurricanes that form in the Eastern Pacific organise in or near this body of water. We later passed over Tehuantepec Ridge and continued towards the O'Gorman Fracture zone.

Day 2 of 5 sea days on the hike up to Los Angeles, in fine sunny and warm weather. The atmosphere has bounced back in the last few days, with all the open decks awash with sun lovers, outdoor activists and relaxers enjoying the fresh air.

A late start to the day for us, I did not wake until 8am, and Donna even later, so too late for breakfast in the Dining Room, so it was buffet,with self service is now permitted again, and it did feel odd being able to help yourself again.

Yesterday whilst I was sitting in Rendezvous, I was going through my task of downloading and culling photo, both on the iPad, and the netbook. Whilst doing this a lady walking passed asked for a couple of tips on using the iPad, which led to me agreeing to arrange a time to walk thru a few things with her and some friends today. Well that became a group session of 8 !!, and good fun.

We are toying with the idea of staying ashore in Los Angeles on Monday and having a day or two there, and then flying on to Honolulu to meet the ship on the following Saturday, which would give us extra time in both locations. We have checked with the ship about doing that, some papers to complete, and at this stage we will probably do that, more later.

After dinner tonight we did a movie in the Princess Theatre – Saving Grace, it passed my 20 minute test, and I stayed awake, so it must have been OK:)

Sorry, but these updates are going to be brief on these sea days as we dont want to continue to repeat what we have already said we do on them, suffice to say...relax !!!! :)