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Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
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It's time to move on and move forward.
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Your formal night photos are wonderful and your timing for getting them was perfect. Dinner seems to be going a bit better this evening, but I'm wondering what next will need to be changed out.
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It is funny how that happens to us too. Once in a lifetime gets addicting.
Oh tell me about it! Hawaii and Aulani were also going to be once in a lifetime. I think at the moment we have two plans in mind to go back there as well....
Your formal night photos are wonderful and your timing for getting them was perfect.
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Dinner seems to be going a bit better this evening, but I'm wondering what next will need to be changed out.
My memory may be failing me, as it was a while ago now and until I go back and add the photos into the trip report, I won't know for sure, but I don't remember anything else having to be changed out that trip.
Wednesday 2 September – part six: why is it constantly giving me an error message?
After about half an hour or so on deck four admiring the view, I figured we might as well drop our waterproof coats back at the room, as we really didn’t need them now, it was such a pleasant day. On the way, I checked out the laundry, as I figured that most people would be out watching the scenery, and I was right. Only one washer and one dryer were in use, so I went back to the room, rounded up the dirty washing, and loaded another washer up.
We headed back to the room, and waited 20 minutes for it to be done.
When I got back though, it was flashing up an error message, and didn’t appear to have finished, even though I’d left it longer than the prescribed 23 minutes. What the heck? I pressed the start button and it told me it had one minute remaining. Ok, so maybe it just hadn’t finished spinning then… phew!
When it finished its spin, I got the same error message, and the door was still locked, so stupidly I pressed the start button again, and we went through the same one minute message. This was not good. I went back to get Mark, and found a room steward on the way, so I reported it. Mark came back with me, and in the end, I thumped the door when it finished, then it opened.
We loaded up a dryer, and now one was out of action, and of the remaining four, three were in use. In fact, the fourth was in use, but there was a mad taking his laundry out of it as I’d been struggling with the washer. Now that’s what I call timing!
We set it on its way, and headed back up to deck 10 to get some photos as we got our first glimpses of the glacier.
Again, it was mobbed up there, but in all honesty, it didn’t seem to be as bad as it had been earlier, which was a bit ironic, given that the views were so much better now.
We also headed to see the photographer located up there on three separate occasions. Well, heck there’s no limit as to how many photos you can have taken is there? I figured the more we did, the more chance there was something would come out well, and my hair was having a bit of a party, as the photographer had to be located at the only spot on deck 10 that was now windy!
Some seriously frisky hair!
After a while, I said to Mark I’d head back to the room. I’d got a fair few photos already, and I didn’t want to stand any longer. Given it was a nice day, I knew I could sit out on the veranda and just watch the world go by, which suited me. Here are some of the photos Mark got from deck 10:
After a while, I did go and have a check on the washing, but 45 minutes in the dryer had been nowhere near enough, and everything was still damp, so I put it on again.
Such a gorgeous blue in the glacier!
Some of the pictures seem to look like the glacier is about the calve! I would have loved a shot of that as it happened.
Such a gorgeous blue in the glacier!
Some of the pictures seem to look like the glacier is about the calve! I would have loved a shot of that as it happened.
Sadly if it did happen, we didn't see or hear it. I would love to see that too!
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Dinner seems to be going a bit better this evening, but I'm wondering what next will need to be changed out.
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Hawaii and Aulani were also going to be once in a lifetime. I think at the moment we have two plans in mind to go back there as well....
I pressed the start button and it told me it had one minute remaining. Ok, so maybe it just hadn’t finished spinning then… phew! 
I went back to get Mark, and found a room steward on the way, so I reported it. Mark came back with me, and in the end, I thumped the door when it finished, then it opened. 
I figured the more we did, the more chance there was something would come out well, and my hair was having a bit of a party, as the photographer had to be located at the only spot on deck 10 that was now windy! 
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