Day 9 - Kona, Hawaii

We arrived early again.  About 6:15, there was quite a bit of noise as the tenders were lowered.  Didn't feel much like getting out of bed, but we finally did, about 7:00.

Breakfast as usual.  No waffles today - I thought I would change things up a bit.  We spent about an hour eating and having coffee, and then returned to our room to get ready to go ashore.  When we were ready, it was down to deck 3 to board the tender.  Then off to shore and some more shopping.

View From the Ship

A Shop in Kona

Beautiful Flower

Hotel on the Beach

It was mostly overcast, but still hot - the temperature was forecast to be 28 today, and it felt like it.  It was also very humid.  We caught the shuttle to Hilo Hatties, walked around the store for a while, and then left to walk back toward the ship, and look at other stores that were around.  We looked at a few other stores, and found one we liked, closer to the dock.  Once again, we added to the local economy a bit, and then walked back to the tender, to return to the ship.

Excursion Boat

Once aboard, we got out our laundry to give it a washing.  It was fairly easy to do because the laundry was about 3 doors down the hallway.  We could use our ship card to purchase tokens for the washer and dryer, so we got enough to do a couple loads.  That took about an hour and a half, and we were done.

We lay around the ship for much of the rest of the afternoon, mostly reading and perhaps getting some sleep, too.  We are getting more and more lazy, and it is hard to keep our eyes open.  It is warm and humid outside, so we pretty much stick to the cabin, although I do enjoy sitting on our deck to read, if the sun isn't beating down on me.

Dinner was great again.  It is going to be tough to get home and have to do all the cooking and serving ourselves.  Of course, I always will cook and serve my queen, but she does get somewhat picky and sometimes won't let me in the kitchen (alright, my nose is getting longer, so I have to take some of that sentence back).

There wasn't a show in the lounge this night.  Instead, they were showing some movies.  We weren't interested in going, so went back to our cabin.  We were both very tired, and went to bed to watch TV and read.  Well, I couldn't keep my eyes open so closed my book and thought I would listen to the TV - not even a great show.  Dawn was a little testy the next morning because she had to turn the TV off herself.  I was sound asleep.