Rick&Jeannie

A couple of local boys were catching wild roosters. Guide said they were to be pets...

So far vey nice excursion. There's only 21 on the tour, we're on a half-sized bus. The operator has a DVD showing all of the clips from the movies shot here. MANY more films than I thought...

8 minutes ago, yakcruiser said:

I am glad you are posting pictures of food. Some dishes that sound unappealing in description in menu actually look good and some that look good on menu do not look appealing to me in pictures. 

I hope that I'm doing them justice!

The thought just occurred to me that people *might* get the wrong idea about the pictures of all the food dishes I've been posting....those are NOT all of *my* meals!  😄 Traveling in a group of 6 gives plenty of opportunities for variety!

Day 11, Kuaui 

This amazing itinerary is very quickly approaching the end! I have to admit, a lot of it is becoming just a blur with it getting harder and harder to remember what we did in which port! 

Today we're doing the "Director's Cut" movie location tour. Another long tour at 6.5 hours. This is one that our group has been looking forward to.  Lots of movie filming locations. I'm glad I'm not using a film camera! I'd go broke burning through rolls of film! I'll get some posted when possible.  I'm "fueling up" right now at The Local!

47 minutes ago, cr8tiv1 said:

Were you able to board any faster? Separate lanes?  Easier?  Anything that might be encouraging?

I don't remember separate lines...but they very well may have. My memory has been blocked out as far as embarkation goes back to the beginning of *this* cruise. (We're currently on an NCL cruise right now.) We had to stand in line almost 2 hours just to get on the ship in Papeete.

We've embarked 5 or 6 times in Southampton now and I don't recall ever having any real issues. 

58 minutes ago, cr8tiv1 said:

Has anyone from the US or Canada boarded/checked in with a Medallion in hand?  What was your experience?  To be specific….from the Mayflower Terminal (as of current).

We have, on a transatlantic where we flew over and came back to Fort Lauderdale.  We had our medallions before we left. 

6:00pm Spinnaker Lounge, Nature's Rhythm Tribute to the Eagles. 

Ummm...no

I give them an "A" for effort,  but if you're going to try to do Eagles, you'd better be pretty good.  

A most amazing meal at Mama's Fish House! Highly recommended. (Bring money!)

1 hour ago, 9tee2Sea said:

It's a pretty unorganized experience in the theater.

This has not been our experience...

Day 10, Maui

Yesterday (having missed Hilo due to the POA blocking our dock) was a bit of a disappointment. NCL of course scrambled to come up with new excursions to replace what had been missed...but on such short notice (and given the madhouse at the excursion desk) we just decided to go on a walkabout (apologies to our Aussie friends!) We had planned on seeing the volcano area.

Our excursion costs were refunded to our onboard account...I had hoped that it would go directly back to credit card. GS *says* we can cash out on the last day...I hope so!

Today, no ship excursion. We are going to visit a favorite restaurant that we've been to a couple times before.  Mama's Fish House is about a 20 minute ride from the port. We'll have lunch and have plenty of time to get back to the ship. 

Got through the immigration "face-to-face". Abita of a joke. A long single file line of passengers threading between 2 customs officers who basically just looked to see that you had a passport in hand. No way they had time to look at your passport photo and then compare with the person walking past them. All of seconds max. Fastest "entry" into the US we've *ever* had! Not complaining. 

Here is the scene just after with everybody heading for the tenders.