Well our ship is still cruising along on one pod. The technicians are on board and worked for two days in Singapore and are going to be working for two days while we are at port in Thailand. The captain says there is progress but the pod is still not fixed. Apparently, we can cruise to all the coming ports at our slow comfortable pace and still meet the schedule but it will be later on when we cross the Bering Strait that it will become a problem. So we have to be in port inorder for them to work on the pod.
Another death on board the ship and the poor gentleman's body was sent home from Singapore and the wife is continuing the trip. We chuckled on that one.
We have a lot of new crew on board, new headline singers and a new captain who was handed over the keys to the ship, not the oar or pod or rudder. We also have 4 new tablemates and have lucked out once again for they are nice. One couple is from north eastern England and the other couple from Phoenix, Arizona. We sure do miss Jim and Sue from LA and their daughter, Cate from San Francisco.
Doug took a lecture about modern day pirates on the high seas. We hope there aren't any around here for unfortunately, we cannot outrun them with only one functioning pod. That is something to think about.
Some of the activities coming up onboard the ship are: Jade Harbour Fair - Asian floating carnival, An Imperial Evening in Hue - a special shore side event for world cruisers only and that is supposed to be a surprise for us, Hong Kong Kabang - at the Stardust. A party for us world cruisers only. Another surprise event.
Out of 16 days in this leg of the trip, we are in port 10 days, so we will be busy going ashore and seeing a lot during this leg. On Tuesday morning, 48 of us leave the ship and fly inland to see The Wonders of Angkor Wat. We just received our briefing and the itinerary this morning. We will be seeing many temples and kept very busy. We meet up with the ship on Thursday in Ho Chi Minh City. We are really looking forward to this side trip.
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