At Sea on Thursday 22 August

Beautiful day to relax - flat sea, full sun and back up into the 30'sC.
This cruise was primarily sold into Australia as a single 17 night cruise, but for the rest of the world (including Queensland), it seems to have been sold as two individual cruises. As a result, tomorrow we have about 40% of the passengers turning over in Yokohama. This required the rest of us to attend a briefing this morning on what was happening - to summarise what took 30" to say was "you will get an envelope before 7pm today and it will tell you"!!!
As normal, off to breakfast, as a single, before time at the top around one of our pool areas.
Should mention here that I received an overnight letter to tell me my credit card had been rejected - very strange as it has plenty of credit and seemed fine for purchases in Tokyo and even in Busan, South Korea, just a few days back!!! No messages from CBA before losing WiFi access after departing Aburatsu late yesterday, and naturally a call to CBA told me all their operators were busy and the queue was long!! I will see what tomorrow brings when we are in Yokohama, but I always seem to have credit card issues with Princess once on board.
I went to a wine tasting after lunch - 5 wines, France, New Zealand, Argentina, USA & Portugal. Quite enjoyable, but they were all from the lower end of the ship's cellar.
More time relaxing and back up the top. Then time on our balcony - we have never had so much value from our balcony on any previous cruise. The weather is so hot, the seas so flat and the atmosphere so balmy.
Off to an early show tonight as show times have changed to accommodate those who leave tomorrow.
The most "Princess cruised" passenger on the ship at present is a woman from NSW with 945 days!!!
Very good early show with a night club type singer, and when he performed Mr Bojangles he had with him a tall slim negro dancer who was just so flexible. Another excellent dinner and an early night.