After we updated yesterday’s Blog, Anne Marie returned from last evenings show with rave reviews. The show is called My Favorite Things, A Tribute To Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Musicals. The singers and the dancers were excellent and everyone seemed to enjoy the show. The show included songs from The Sound Of Music, South Pacific, Carousel, The King and I along with many others. There were ten entertainers. The singing, dancing along with the costumes was quite a treat.
The ship arrived in Ocho Rios, Jamaica about an hour later than the scheduled arrival time due to the engine problem that we mentioned yesterday. We enjoyed a leisurely morning on the ship. After breakfast we went to the fitness center to exercise. Once again, Anne Marie went on the treadmill while Keith worked out on the Elliptical Machine. Then we spent some time in the laundry room where Keith did the wash and Anne Marie did ironing. It turned out to be quite a social gathering as many of our fellow passenger’s had the same idea. It turned out to be an unusual way to meet many new passengers. I guess it turned out to be a laundry hour rather than a cocktail hour. ☺
Later in the morning we went to the Bistro, which serves regular, and specialty coffees along with food to get some coffee and we ran into Val and Ernie who we first met on this ship in 2005 and who are also on the full World Cruise with us. We have been e-mailing with them since that cruise and it was wonderful to catch up with them.
After lunch, we took a complimentary shuttle bus provided by Crystal into town with the thought that we would take a long walk. However, with on again and off again rain showers and not much to see in the town, we decided to go back to the ship so that we could walk on the promenade deck. The Crystal Serenity has the best promenade deck of any ship we have ever sailed on. A walk of about 3.3 laps around the ship equals one mile and it is a true wrap-around promenade deck.
Later in the afternoon we met with the fitness director for our one-and-one sessions on the weight machines. We’ve been utilizing similar machines back home for about 13 months and we want to continue with this program during the World Cruise. The fitness director did a wonderful job in establishing which equipment we should utilize along with the level of weights that each of us should use. He also had us stretch in between the lifting and do pushups, and pull-ups and lunges. He will give us our plan the next time we work out at the fitness center.
We had a wonderful dinner this evening and afterward we sat with two other couples that we have met this week and had a wonderful talk with them. We look forward to spending more time with them during the course of this voyage.
Tomorrow we will spend a full day at sea before we transit the Panama Canal the following day. We have never sailed through the Panama Canal so we are really looking forward to this.
Keith & Anne Marie
1 comment:
Hi. It sounds that the WC is off to a great start. The evening before you go through the Canal, check Reflections for the times you will be at certain milestone locations (the three sets of locks, Centennial Bridge, American Bridge, etc.) and go to watch from the front of the ship. The Gatun Lake may be viewed from anywhere. Your naturalist is GREAT. He was on our Harmony Alaskan voyage in 2005. Enjoy. Judith
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