22nd August

22 August
Pago Pago which is pronounced Pango Pango. Cloudy with some showers Temp 27c
This is our third visit to this small island so we had not booked a tour. Instead after a late breakfast we met Coral and we all went for a walk ashore. The ship was docked almost in the Main Street. After we had walked a short way Coral decided to return to the ship as her back was aching.
I should mention that all of us also had our sleep broken by a call on the ship's PA at 2am calling the special response team to go to some area on the ship where smoke had been smelt. Then shortly after the Captain spoke to say a smoke detector had triggered and he was waiting for a report from the response team and he would keep us informed. About 15 minutes later he came back to tell us that no fire had been found so the response team have been stood down. I actually wonder why we needed to be so informed about just one detector going off until the problem was confirmed and why do they have to call for the response team via the cabin  PA when it seems every crew member has pager. Just another thing to take care of when I redesign the ship.
To continue, Betty & I continued our walk through a market selling mainly fruit and veg where there was a group playing some great music. I would have bought their CD if they had one. Further on down the street was a MacDonalds store with a McCafe so we had coffee there. Inevitably with so many clothing shops around we were going to find something that Betty liked. However it was actually me who encouraged her to buy a skirt and top which looks very nice. Around the wharf area stalls had been set up selling mainly clothes and jewellery, I left Betty looking here and went back to the ship just in time to miss a sharp shower.
Entertainment tonight was by one of our favourites Roland Storm who some of you will remember from Six O'Clock Rock and Bandstand. He certainly is no spring chicken but he still puts on a great show. Now that we are on our way to New Zealand we have the usual rough sea although so far it's not that bad.
I think I will make this my last report because we now have 6 sea days with just a break for Auckland in the middle and they will be pretty repetitive. For those of you who have followed us all the way round thanks for watching. Next year we will be touring Oz in our new baby.