DAY 6 ON THE PACIFIC: QUIET DAY TO WARM UP FOR HAWAII !

Our great ship moves on. And our clocks do the opposite.  We are now 12 hours behind Europe. Or as my son Claus wrote from Odense today:  It's difficult to understand what is morning or evening where you are, as your are sailing down there under our feet!  We have now three times since our departure from Seattle last Friday been "given" an extra hour. Our days and nights are in a way longer. And that's great.  But we are fully aware that at some point we have to pay them all back!

 You might wonder, why I do not send some pictures to prove our delightful journey. Yes, we take a lot of photos.  But our internet connection here on the ship is coughing helplessly, if it also has to cope with pictures. So they have to wait until later!

 I should have liked to show you photos of the very artistic animals, which our Philippine cabin attendant Selson makes for us from towels almost every night.  I managed to send one to our granddaughters in Australia. Look what a sweet monkey we have in our room, I wrote.  Eleven year old Anna Maria wrote back right away:  This is not a monkey. It is an orangutan!   Ok - you have to learn every day!

 Once communication minded - always communication minded!   This is my weakness - or strength, as you like it.  Why do I say that?  Because the responsible communicators on this ship are very good.  With 12+ floors, cabins for 4000 guests, restaurants and bars of all sorts, swimming and jacuzzi pools on several decks, shops, library, sun decks, footpaths, fitness centres and much more - it is quite a task to ensure that we all without too much effort can find our way around without getting (too much) lost.  We actually can. And not least because you all over the ship find one meter long models of the ship, which are installed in such a way that the front of the model points in the direction of the front of the ship.  Simple, but still very smart. At the same time you have in hallways on all decks an electronic "white-board" showing a "cut" through the ship. And at the spot where you are standing a lamp is blinking on the white board. At the same time the board is a touch screen. If you push Restaurant, you are shown how to get to them all. If you push Fitness Centre, you no longer have the excuse that you couldn't find it.  And if you push I want to get off, a trapdoor will open, and you will disappear right into the ocean :-(    ( no, this is not completely true ! )

 And our daily "Home University" today?  We now know much more about Siegfried Lenz and his close relations to Denmark.  And we also upgraded ourselves with exciting news about the future from the website:  www.futurism.com      Try to have a go at it too!

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