Honolulu, Hawaii

Aloha Family and Friends,

A special call out and mahalo* to our dear friend who is housesitting while we're gone and got more than she bargained for. Apparently, the house is leaking like a sieve. Where is Al Hammond when you need him?

Many of our fellow passengers are getting cabin fever after a week at sea. One said he felt like Noah (forty days and forty nights). Not us! Love the floating life. If we were rich enough we'd be tempted to buy a yacht. But then we'd be worried about the price of gasoline, the cabin steward or, worse, the chef quitting. There's something nice about those being someone else's problems.

Today we went sightseeing in Honolulu. We've been here several times before. But we had never been to the Bishop Museum so we went there.

"Bishop Museum was founded in 1889 by Charles Reed Bishop in honor of his late wife, Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, the last descendant of the royal Kamehameha family. The Museum was established to house the extensive collection of Hawaiian artifacts and royal family heirlooms of the Princess, and has expanded to include millions of artifacts, documents and photographs about Hawai'i and other Pacific island cultures. Today, Bishop Museum is the largest museum in the state and the premier natural and cultural history institution in the Pacific."