A full day at sea lies ahead. Overnight we have cruised along the coast of Cuba and the Caribbean islands. It's a clear sunny day. After a trip to the gym we shower and go to breakfast. At 10am Dean and Lee from PHT have organized a ship orientation tour followed by a visit to their room for a glass of wine and a chat with others from the group. After a coffee we return to our room to watch the movie 'The 33' about the 33 Chilean miners trapped in a collapsed mi...

Today we board the Island Princess for our Panama Canal cruise. We have breakfast at the hotel and prepare for our transfer to the ship. We meet with Robyn and Bruce on the bus to the port. Check in is easy but the most exciting part is that when we receive our cruise cards they are Platinum which means we have gone up a level with our cruise loyalty program and this means we get 250 minutes of free internet each! On board our cabin is on deck 10 port side. The r...

Open the curtains this morning to see the sunrise over Fort Lauderdale. We have to wait til 10.30am to disembark but we need to be out of our room by 8 so it's just shower and go to breakfast. It's a beautiful day, sunny with a nice breeze. We will get a transfer to our hotel (which we can see from the ship) this morning and then decide what we do from there. There is a water taxi that's a Hop on Hop off trip up and down the waterways so that's one option or a tr...

It's not so humid today so I chose to walk up on deck 17 and Glenn went to the gym. After showers we go to the dining room for breakfast. We are seated at a table for 2 next to the 'Red Hat Ladies'. Not sure if I have mentioned them before but the Red Hat Ladies is a worldwide organization of women over 50. They dress in predominantly purple clothing and red hats. Their philosophy is to enjoy life to the fullest. This is group consist of about 35 ladies from all ...

We have 2 full days of cruising now to get back to Fort Lauderdale. Awake around 7 Glenn is on the job to get to the laundry, it's the highlight of his day I think and he always comes back with a story or two. While the clothes are drying we both go to the gym and surprisingly there are available treadmills. It's quite nice walking on the treadmill and watching out the window at the rolling sea. On the morning TV show we find that Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton ...