Santa Marta Columbia tomorrow

The sun rises earlier now.

Got to the destination talk

On a tender port in Nicaragua. Our next port, tomorrow, is Santa Marta Columbia. Since it is a Sunday, there won’t be muchgoing on. Next big event is transiting the Panama Canal.

Trivia: really pathetic today. But we had lots of company in the basement.

Lunch

Met some folks who know one of our UCLA friends of many decades. What a small world it is.

Wine tasting

With Frances and Ed who get a lot of the wine because I don’t like red wines and I pass the tastes on to them. But they did have one of my favorites: Asti Spumonti and a very mild chardonnay that wasn’t acrid as they usually are. And I like the candied ginger and cheese cubes they give you to nibble on in between.

Triva: pathetic again.

Dinner

I had discovered that it is possible to put your initials on the file name for all of the photos you take so I was busy annoying the folks in the photo dept. to help me figure out how to do this. They all know it is done on this camera too but can’t recall how to do it. For another time

It is getting hot and humid outside and the areas near the windows reflect this too so Frances and I are perpetually fanning ourselves.

Starlight

The big production show. We have the original dancers and singers back and they are very good but we all really miss the ones that were here for most of the world cruise. We had grown so fond of them.

On the way out: Basil was at the door. This guy never stays still for a moment. He’s always moving. So I went back and asked him if he also had restless legs syndrome. He said no it was just that he was born feet first. I told him my sister was born butt first so I wonder what that means. We were all howling at this image.

Yeah! We get another hour back tonight.

Everyone is making posters for the Panama Canal. We have the poster and some of the makings but haven’t started ours yet. We are however, collecting all the goodies to decorate it.

Panama Canal

There is a ship’s web cam and a Panama Canal web cam. The photographers and videographer get off the ship and follow us through the canal from shore side taking shots. So we flash the posters for them and the web cam viewers.

Ed’s birthday is coming up and after it’s over (because it is almost impossible to keep secrets from him.)  I’ll let you in on all the behind the scenes tales.