FRIDAY, MAR 12TH--HONG KONG DAY 3

I just discovered that I left out one day’s posting to the blog. That was our sea day after Xiamen, March 8th. Well, nothing exciting happened I guess. I probably spent all day uploading the Shanghai photos, So today was our last day in Hong Kong (HK). We cancelled our scheduled tour as just wanted to do a little more shopping and relax. As it turned out I have spent several hours writing blog posts and uploading HK pictures for you. I am so glad I had taken lots of pictures the first two days as today was overcast with some fog and a little rain shower in the afternoon. They took another passenger off the ship this morning and headed for the hospital. I think that is #8 to remain behind in the hospital. We left our dock at 5pm and was sailing out of the harbor and I was out on our balcony and saw a boat that was attempting to cross our path in front of the ship. I could see it was going to be very close. The Captain reversed the azipods to stop the ship and sounded our ship’s horn. Now we have stopped and dropped anchor in the harbor. Captain Dag came on PA and said he wanted to do “an inspection” before continuing. Knowing him, I think some damage has been done to the ship. I am not sure if we did hit it or if the azipods (propellers) were damaged when doing the emergency stop. The ship was really shaking during this time. It is 6:30 now and have been doing the “inspection” for half hour now. As I was watching us sail out, it seemed to me that we were going too fast for so much traffic in the harbor. I have a really bad feeling that our world cruise may be over. Now 7pm and going for cocktails and dinner. I’ll post this now and make another post tomorrow with what is happening.