August 22, 2025

Tokyo at Night!

Tokyo reminds me a lot of New York City minus the grit, graffiti, trash, homeless, honking horns, sirens and crime.  It is amazing how clean the streets are everywhere!  Our hotel is in a lively Times Square kinda neighborhood. There are huge billboards everywhere you look. We went to a Samari dinner show and on the walk there we caught our first sightings of Godzilla !

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The Samurai Theater itself  was a calidescope of all things sparkly and glitter! WOW! The show was lively, loud music, strobe lights and neon and tons of moving parts. The dancers and musicians portray a ton of classic Japanese images, samurai warriors, geshi, dragons and lots of colorful images. We had seats right along the stage and ate a dinner of sushi and udon, while we watched the performance. Afterwards we strolled more of the neighborhood  and got to see the Cat in a Box billboard.

We squeezed in one more FUN excursion, in this long first day in Tokyo. We met up with ship friends (L to R )Theresa, her son Riley, his visiting friend Gavin, Me & Bosco and Alan to drive STREET KARTS around the City. This was a BLAST and a great way to see the city and sights all lite up at night! Plus we got to get in costumes! They supplied a variety of onesie outfits!

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A GREAT FIRST DAY IN A FUN TOWN!!! Really LOVING Japan !!!

PAPEETE - NIGHT LIFE- BACHLORETTE PARTY

By Patricia Patrick • January 19, 2026
I threw together an impromptu Bachelorette party for Angie tonight! Angie and Gian are getting married for a third time in Hawaii next week.They will be alone this time and it turns out she never had a Shower or Bachelorette to celebrate her first 2 marriages on the Ship, last May! Our girl deserved a fun night to celebrate her! So we took over a section the outdoor seating at Les 3 Brassuers, and their great band had us all up dancing! It's amazing what you can do with a bunch of WhatsApp messages to fellow ladies, some tulle, sparkles and always handy flower lei's ! One of the ladies even went and bought her some lingerie! I love our supportive community!

PAPEETE, FRENCH POLYNESIA

By Patricia Patrick • January 19, 2026
I got to go Sailing Again! We were supposed to head to the COOK ISLANDS after the lovely Rangiroa and the Tuamotu Archipelago, but due to stormy weather there, with all unprotected tender ports, they made the decision to head us southwest, back to the protected port in Papeeta (Tahiti). We got lucky and Holly ( pictured below) found us a sailboat available for charter.

RANGIROA, FRENCH POLYNESIA - Drone Shots

By Patricia Patrick • January 14, 2026
Since Janette Emerich is generous enough to share her drone photos with all of us on board the Ship, I have to share them with you all. This beauty is why I said we felt like we were in a screen saver the whole day in Rangiroa! I love the height perspective in the photos it really captures so much more. Blue Lagoon below: