I was up a little earlier today and went out on the verandah to read. We were due into Cartagena around 8:00 so I was surprised that there wasn't any land visible. Around 7:30 I went up to deck 10 to see if there was land on the other side of the ship. There wasn't any but, guess what....it was raining when I got up there. I went back down to the room and Nikki was watching TV. Kelsie had come in after midnight last night and Regan around 2:00 so they were both s...

Today was the day the majority of the ship was waiting for, the crossing of the Panama Canal. I say the majority of the ship because Regan and Kelsie couldn't have cared less. I had warned everyone that we were going to have to get up early and go up on deck so we could get a spot to see the ship enter the Canal. People were planning on camping out on deck to get a good spot. Well, the alarm went off at 6 and nobody moved. I got up and showered. When I got out of...

I woke up around 6:30 again this morning and sat out on the verandah to read for a while. We had decided that we were going to get breakfast in Lumiere's because Nikki had seen peanut butter and jelly crepes on their breakfast menu when we took the galley tour. I knew that we were going to have to get the girls up around 8:30 so that we could get there around 9 as we had planned. Nikki brought the newspaper out to me after I had been out there for a while and we ...

I did sleep in all the way til 6:40 this morning but stayed in bed until about 7:20 when I got up and went out to read on the verandah. Ahead of the ship it was dark and cloudy and I kept hearing something that sounded like thunder. Then, out of the corner of my eye I caught a flash so I stood up and watched a lightning storm. We were headed straight into a wall of rain. It was a strange to be sailing right into the storm. It started to mist a little and I decide...

The alarm went off before 5 this morning so that I could go to the laundry room before the crowds got there. I wasn't the first but there were two empty machines. The machines weren't very good and so it was finished around 7:30. While I was at the laundry room I read and Nikki did get up and join me after a while. We arrived in Acapulco sometime around 6:00 am. It had rained all night long and was still raining. After finishing the laundry, we went back to the r...