Day 3

 

I slept in.  Eric explored, had breakfast, found coffee and brought me a banana.  Which was great because I went low.  How does anyone go low on a cruise ship?!  Like....did I forget to eat?  So weird.  Obviously we walked too much yesterday and I didn't eat enough. I did better today.  We  even added in two snacks between meals.  In true cruise fashion.

This giant chandelier lights up to your heart beat.

I mean...check out the hair.  Too funny.  I left it in to head to the solarium.  There are no hot tubs, just whirl pools.  That is a tad disappointing, however the whirls are almost as great as the hydro pool on Holland.  

We explored.  Had a slice of Sorrento's pizza for snack.  Hid some ducks.

Photo bomb.  

The crew are great.  All of them so friendly.

And more weird art.

This is a giant lounge.  Trivia while we were there.  Eric watched.  I put ear phones on and listened to my book.  Once Bingo started we had to move on.  It was too loud for my listening.

Someone worked really hard to find the weird.  I'm loving it.

We found me a fort!!

If I'd been a bit warmer I could have spent the whole day in here.  Haha.

Back to the solarium so I could warm up.  The open sea all around is odd.  Nice and calm so far.

A pod of dolphins!  

So fun to watch them.

Sneaker bottoms.

Today was slow and extremely relaxing.  Four more days of the same coming up.  

There are over 4400 passengers, under 200 are 17 and younger.  I've never been on a ship with so few kids.  We're definitely with an older crowd this time.  

Oku & Kadre Day 2

 

Woodland Park Zoo

Seattle 

Olympia gave birth to Oku by cesarean and Jumani gave birth to Kadre.  Both babies were given to Jumani who struggled with two while Olympia recovered.  Then Kadre wasn't fairing well so he was taken for veterinary care and learned to bottle feed.  He was then placed with Olympia because she is more willing to let keepers help with feeding.

So they are both adoptive Mamas now.

I've been following them since they were born in May.  Mildly obsessed. Of course.

Seeing them today was totally incredible.  I don't believe Hawaii can top today.

The whole family was at the viewing window today.  We got to see the babies playing, nursing and eventually falling asleep for naps in their mamas arms.  I held eye contact with Kadre while he fought sleep with his eyes closing.  Beyond adorable.  Jumani is the gorilla that showed me her hidden treasure (dead bird) last time we were there.  Today she was showing off her baby Oku.  Big time.  She even put him against the glass.  

Nadaya, the Dad, was close by, mostly napping.  He did get up eventually, he demanded Jumani get out of his way, proceeded to pee in front of a group of ladies at the window, picked up a rose and handed it to Jumani then pooped by her and went back to his napping nest.

Eric couldn't believe he handed Jumani a rose.

I was standing with a lady who was pretty excited.  She goes once or twice a week and said she has never seen the family up close, they're usually hidden at the back of their enclosure.

So, for those who know this part, there were roses today.  It's giving day.  All of the animals got treats.  Most of them got rose petals.  Yep. Really. Mostly pink.  Of course. All over the zoo. I know. It was crazy.  

Leaving Vancouver last night.

Our breakfast room this morning.

The strangest art is all over this ship.  We keep getting close to it and asking ourselves 'what is it'.  Today we found a wall done in giant bottoms of sneakers.  My hands were full, so no picture yet.

We couldn't pin point our room.  15 floors, we're on 12.  A sea of balconies.  This ship is huge.  4400ish passengers on board.

Fighting sleep.

Zzzz.

Today was pretty exciting.  Even staff were shocked at the viewing today. I might have cried a little. 

We found a sloth.  He didn't come out.  A staff person said he almost never comes out during the day.

1st pass he was snoozing.

Mama on the left has a new baby.  1st one born at the zoo in 29 years.  All we could see was his little tail hanging down.

2nd time by he was doing cat love eyes at everyone.

A bunch of nuisance squirrels were relocated to the zoo.  There are squirrels everywhere.  Fat ones.  Lol.  This one is inside a monkey enclosure, feasting.

Sloth Bear.

Our view while eating a really late lunch back on board.

We walked for 5 hours.  I overdid it. Of course. Eric is napping now.  I'm blogging. We don't have plans for tonight yet.  The next five days are open sea crossing.  

The Penquins are just so funny to watch.  Today was saw feeding time.  Some of them getting a seperate fish out of a snackle box.  Clearly meds for some of them.  So that was interesting to watch.  There are a lot of them and they all have names.  The keeper was funny chatting to them all.