February 18: Fourth Day of Five-Day Passage to Hawai'i

This image was sent to us in an e-card. Google Search was not helpful in identifying the linguistic source of "anivernissary", but I rose to the occasion and was able to translate it. Yes, today is our 48th wedding anniversary. 

Yesterday, our cabana steward, Firdaus, had latched onto something Pam said about our anniversary and arrived today with a cake. 

Two can play that game. While giving it to us, he inadvertently revealed his birthday was next month. We teased the date out of him. It is now on my calendar. We may not have a cake for him, but I did pack a pop-up birthday card.

At noon, the captain reported that we had traveled 1,622 NM since leaving San Diego. Our first port of call, Kahului, Maui, is 632 NM away. (NM - nautical mile, which is 6,000 feet versus a statute mile of 5,280, so 1,622 NM is 1,866 statute miles.)

All day long, we cruised through short-lived rain showers. Temperatures were in the low 70s. This limited my time walking on the upper deck, but otherwise was not an inconvenience; more time to relax under the dome on the pool deck. 

We had a nice anniversary dinner in the Pinnacle Grille. The people at the next table were from Georgetown, TX, where our grandson, Holden, attends Southwestern University.