Noon Location: N 22º 23′ 42.00″ – W 133º 22′ 35.98″

This is the third of 6 sea days between LA and Honolulu. Here’s the most exciting news for today:

Other than that it’s very much like any other sea day:

• Up, Walk, Breakfast
• 9:30 Lecture: “The Pacific War for Beginners”
• 11:00 Lecture: “Landforms and Volcanoes of Hawaii and Beyond”
• Lunch
• Post-Lunch downtime

At 2:00 we signed up for he Cruise Choir. Apparently we’ll be performing a couple of medleys at the two passenger talent shows during the cruise.

• 4:30 Lecture…

OK, this one was interesting. Of course he talked about the Titanic, but he also covered several other maiden voyage disasters – including the RMS Tayleur that went down on January 19, 1854 on its maiden voyage from Liverpool to Australia. Of the 680 passengers, 380 were saved – including only 3 of the 100 women on board. Peters explained that the unusually high death toll for women was due to the Victorian clothing they were wearing (multiple skirts, corsets, etc.). This is why sailors believe that for safety’s sake women should wear as little clothing as possible.

5:30 there’s talk of a Bible study – we checked that out.

• 6:30 Lecture: “From Monarchy to Republic to the 50th American State”
• Dinner
• 8:00 Bruce’s Brain Busters (we started strong but ended up out of the running with 9 of 19)
• Back to the stateroom to read, Blog, rest

And…

Tonight we move our clocks back another hour – puts us on Honolulu time.

Tomorrow is much the same – “rinse and repeat.”

See you then, R