Day 15 - 10/17/22 - At Sea to Samoa - Day 5

 Today is our fifth and final sea day before reaching Apia, Samoa tomorrow.  According to the onscreen TV the Seattle Seahawks were supposed to be playing at 5:05am our time this morning.  That was in fact 5:05pm eastern time.  So our waking up early was in vain.  The game actually started at 9:05am our time Monday.


Two of the ship's 3rd officer navigation staff were Rachael's coffee chat guests.  The venue was packed and they were interesting guests.  Following this Rachael gave a short presentation on Suva, Fiji which will be rebroadcast on the stateroom TV's. I then watched a bit of the Seahawks game silently in the Gallery bar area before going to our room to watch the last quarter on our stateroom TV with sound.  The Seahawks won 19-9 over the Arizona Cardinals. On my way to the stateroom I noted that a medallion ceremony was taking place in the BBKing lounge.


After a very nice and long lunch in the Lido Pool area with Erik and Marilyn, we watched the last Jurassic Park World Dominion movie in the Main Stage.  There were certainly lots of dinosaurs in the movie and none of the main characters died.


We ate a light dinner before watching the Comedian, Chris Pratt; and we once again wrapped up our evening in the Billboard Onboard.  They did two sets of Standards and one all request set.

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