Travel Letters: Hawaii, 1933

{Top centre: "6"} a Miss Stark who is English & is tutoring four children of a wealthy New York family who don't look so wealthy but have three suites and each child a nurse.

I've spent a good part of the time in my deck chair reading, have seen a movie a day and taken part in deck sports en afternoon. that was yesterday when it was calmer and every one felt better. They had a turtle race, where you pull a string and make a turtle of tin or something. Then a nail driving contest when I did reach

{Top centre: "7"} the semi finals but bent a nail and was put out by the winner. they had a shaving contest where women shaved men with spoons. the lather made an awful mess though but it was funny. They also made the women give men baby bottles of milk but the men were poor suckers. One race was awfully amusing for the men. they had a chair for each person at either side of the room, and the race was to dash across, pick up a bean on the end of a regular straw by sucking through the straw and holding the bean by suction, then running back

{Top centre: "8"} and putting it in a saucer on the other chair. It was funny for they kept dropping the beans and had to get down on their knees to pick it up again.

Then they had a goose step where cushions are placed about two feetapart across the room, then the girls were blind folded and were to jump over the cushions and the person who touched the fewest cushions won. After they were blind folded the cushions were removed except the first one, and then the stewards took each girl by the arm and helped her jump. It did look funny to see them

{Top centre: "9"} hopping about and no cushions at all, and then their expressions when they saw it afterwards.

The roughest night of all we were given a special dinner at our table. (I'll send you the menus later) Mr Bowman and I were the only two who managed to eat everything, and instead of feeling worse I felt better. We began with celery filled with roquefort cheese then caviar on toast with {above the line:"hard"} boiled egg and all. Then New Zealand muscle {sic} soup (thick) called "Toheroa". Then Scallops in a cream sauce. Then Filet

{Top centre: "10"} mignon, Bearnaise sauce, corn & potatoes and then fresh strawberries in ice cream whip cream etc. & cakes. quite a meal. It took us two hours to eat it.

We arrive early tomorrow morning, docking at nine I believe. We had fun leaving Los Angeles. There weren't many on deck & Mrs Murr & I through as threw as many streamers as we could and I know I must have thrown fifty or more. The boats are so pretty with the sides covered with streamers and the bands playing and the