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Semester@Sea Fall 2005: Time on the ship between Japan and San Diego
with a stop in Honolulu, Hawaii (November 24 - December 6)

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Journal excerpt from Hawaii and our final stretches at sea
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My cabin #3304 down in the Pit on the MV Explorer. My home for 105 days.

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Rico, Dean John, and Chris at one of our last happy hours in the staffulty lounge.

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Jason and I felt left out when most of our friends were at the Captain's dinner, and since I'm always up for a good prank, we decided to TP Rico's room. Rico loved it, but didn't want to be wasteful, so he folded up all the TP and reused it.

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A beautiful Pacific Ocean sunset.

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Byron and I out on the back deck at sunset on one of our Pacific crossing evenings.

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A beautiful Pacific Ocean sunset.

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Molly and Amy at the Ambassador's Ball.

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Amy and Byron at the Ambassador's Ball.

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Byron and Amy at the Ambassador's Ball.

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David and Briana at the Ambassador's Ball.

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Krista, Jason, David, Chris, Tina, and Eric at the Ambassador's Ball dinner.

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The RD table - Michael P., Michael W., Megan, Shari, Karen, Melissa, Lisa, and Yas at the Ambassador's Ball dinner.

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Our posse at the Ambassador's Ball dinner - Jason, Chris, Amy, Byron, Beth, and Rico.

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The chef made an amazing assortment of super decorative and decadent desserts for the Ambassador's Ball.

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Another magnificent Pacific sunset.

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Amy and Byron taking in another Pacific sunset.

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Pacific sunset.

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Sunrise as seen from the ship the morning before we dock in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Beautiful calm blue Hawaii ocean as we motor towards Honolulu.

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Yas and Karen soaking up the Hawaii sunshine.

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Molly and Amy out on the deck watching the ship approach our next port of Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Coming into our final port of Honolulu, Hawaii.

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The sunset as seen from the ship as we're docked in Honolulu.

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Byron at dinner in Honolulu. We went to this great restaurant on the beach where we cooked our entree ourselves on the grill.

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Byron taking a nap on a beach at Kailua on the winward side of the island.

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Our last family dinner and birthday party. Three of my daughters, Courtney, Karina, and Alex are pictured.

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We were rewarded with an awesome sunset on one of our last days at sea as we sailed from Honolulu to San Diego.

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Our last Southbraz family dinner and birthday party. The fam from left to right: Kristen, Jacque, Courtney, Amy (the mom), Karina, Alex, Corey, Gwen, and David (the dad). Ron and Lisa Marie unfortunately didn't make it to our dinner.

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The Gamelan performance. Molly was in charge of starting everyone off with the downbeat.

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I had about 10 bags to get off the ship with. If that number is low, I know Rico will correct me - he still give me a hard time for all of my stuff.

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Everyone was out on deck enjoying our last sunset on the MV Explorer - at least for the Fall '05 voyage.

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The last sunset we got aboard the MV Explorer for our Fall 2005 voyage.

Journal excerpt from Hawaii and our final stretches at sea
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