Fukuoka

April 20th
Fukuoka, Japan
Yet again, I’ve (along with everyone else) been grounded to the ship by the Japanese government, meaning I got to spend a lovely day aboard looking out over a city I’ve really enjoyed visiting. They did let 100 people off today though…I wasn’t one of them. But, the day ended up going fairly decently. Some of my friends who organize crew activities had a few events planned during the day, including ping pong and rock climbing, so you can bet I was there. I was the only one to show up for ping pong for about the first 30 minutes, but as I started playing, we got some more people to join in the bracket and soon enough had a full fledged tournament in play. I ended up taking second in this international ping pong tournament (should have been first, and I will blame the paddle I was using for all my short-comings) and got a few wonderful prizes out of it too, all of which are RCCL gear – Whoopee! Then, following the ping pong show down, I headed upstairs for rock climbing, something I haven’t done in forever. It went well and everyone who showed up (like all four of us), had a good time. I ended up having a really nice time on the ship despite being confined to it, so I guess everything worked out fine. But that aside, I better be allowed to get off next time or there’s going to be a mutiny, Arghhh!