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Sorry about the clarity on that picture. Anyway, our sea days were very relaxing. We did the usual eating, relaxing, reading, gambling eating, etc.
We did find out that the people who stayed at the Hyatt(all of them- 72pax) did not get their luggage. Rumors flew about how the luggage truck got hijacked, never got picked up, etc. Nobody knew really what happened until the 4th sea day. It seems that someone thought the luggage had left, but it hadn't been loaded. And it didn't leave at all. Those pax were given a $200 voucher to use on the stores ship. Or course, when toothpaste costs $4 and a comb is about $3, it didn't go far. None of those people were able to do either formal night. Some people didn't know enough to pack their meds on their carry ons so that was a problem, for a few of them. They were all given free laundry everyday as if that were any consolation. Most of them seemed to take it in stride and made the best of it.
For whatever reason, we opted not to go to any shows as they seemed like the normal song and dance that we had seen before, so can't comment on that.
Our first stop was in Lahaina. We had a tour through RC for the first day to go to Iao Valley.
The day before on our bed was a form from RC saying that the tour had been cancelled due to lack of participation and that we could probably get on another tour if we so chose. We chose not to. We wandered around Lahaina, went to Hilo Hatties( a place one should go to at least once!). We didn't buy anything but did see some stuff we would have liked to have bought at an art Gallery. But my wallet said no to a $15,000 bust of a Hawaiian ladie..it was beautiful but not affordable. I did buy a $4.40 single scoop ice cream cone. Kona coffee flavor! It was really delicious. The weather was not hot, mostly overcast from the VOG as they call it.
The Kilalua volcano has covered most of the islands in a haze for the past month or so.
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