December 20, 2024
Christmas Festivities on Ship
I taught a class on Origami Christmas Tree paper folding. I solicited a couple key friends to help me teach the group, especially those that paper folding challenged. We had such a positive response and so many inquiries from those who missed it - that I am having another class tomorrow during sea day. My friend Sarah memorialized the event with a meme.
We have an elf on the shelf who moves nightly, under the care of a variety of residents. Hopefully you will recognize my efforts to have the elf make snow angels!
Ternate, Indonesia, which is both the name of the city and island, and is part of the Maluku Islands in eastern Indonesia. It is a port that sees maybe 3 Cruise ships a year. However, they really made an effort to show us the best of what they can offer. It's mainly a Muslim country, and we knew we had to dress discretely, but we knew little else. We didn't have our typical port talk prior, due to a technical issue with the AV equipment. Ben a fellow resident, organized an island tour, with about 8 stops, for 90 of us residents.
Cebu greeted our Ship with a big warm welcome, despite having just been rocked by a major Earthquake, days before our arrival. The Minister of Tourism arrived with a motorcade and she proceeded to chat with the residents and thank us, for all our support.
Today we were Cave explorers! We went to the one of UNESCO newly classified 7 NEW WONDERS OF NATURE - The Puerto Princesa Underground River.