Fun day hanging out with people mixed with some photo editing and trip planning along the way. Capped off with a new show and starting to train for the Halfling Marathon.
Photo Gallery: https://pics.mattichan.com/-uwc082/gallery
Bar Crawl
Just happened to be awake, and found out about the bar crawl that was starting, so headed out after a bit to go and say hi and join in a bit. Started at 11am at Lattetudes before heading to all the bars on the ship. I hopped in and out, because I also had a ton of stuff to get caught up on before leaving the ship for a bit.
Really good times to hang out with people that we’ve gotten to know for 80+ days at this point, lots of really good, fun conversations throughout the day.
Had a couple glasses of Strongbow, but really should’ve had some food, since I don’t normally eat until dinner.
Errands
Got all the photos from Mo’orea and Tahiti finished, and started on the snorkeling videos from Mo’orea, the footage is so clear from the GoPro, very impressive.
Then sat down to finish booking / cancelling tours and some of the itinerary in New Zealand and Australia. Ended up doing a bunch of research and figured out that I could also catch two sporting events during my time in Australia. So I’ve now got an Australian Rules Football match and a Rugby match booked. So excited (will explain why when they happen)!
Kings and Queens: A Life Story
We went to the Kings and Queens show by Daniele Arbisi, one of the featured singers in the Royal Caribbean Productions onboard. I generally don’t really go to the shows, because I don’t really go to entertainment onboard all that often (choosing to be away from crowds), but had met Daniele at a couple of the random spots around the ship and on ports, so I knew he had been working on this for awhile, and there was talk about getting them to let them all do this production.
Really cool to be on the ship for such a longer period of time and get to know crew more than just a passing 7 day cruise. Others know him much better, but the whole bar crawl group went and it was a blast. I hung out in the back of the theater, cause as usual…people. But I also had a blast walking around, getting different angles and trying to capture a little bit of the show. Here are just a few of the pics, the full gallery is linked above.
Food
Grabbed dinner real quick after the show, and had a great truffle burger and some really outstanding fruit (go figure).
Afterwards, we caught the Stars vs Stripes game show again where the crew played some charades…good times were had.
Moon and Running
After the show, I ended up hopping off the crawl again to go get a longer run in and caught a little bit of the moon before I went inside to change. Super nice outside, and had a nice cool breeze.
Vibe Check
5 parts joy
Feedback
Leave a comment or question if you have any thoughts! Anything you want to know about as we go around the world? Any things you want to share as feedback, or any images that particularly spoke to you. I’ll try to read all of them as time permits!
Matti 
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