Panama Canal Cruise 2013:
Day 9 - At Sea
Day 9 - At Sea
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Saturday, January 26, 2013: The problem with a Diet Coke addiction is that you have to feed it even on a cruise ship, so we took care of it, $2/can at a time. |
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On at-sea days, we made it a habit to leave our cabin for breakfast, then linger a while over a Diet Coke somewhere. Today, we chose the Pool Bar. |
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We were way off-shore of Nicaragua, but having been there before (just barely), it was fine that we couldn't actually see the shore. It was a little more disappointing to not be able to see El Salvador when we passed it in the night. |
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Time to take you on a tour of the ship. Here is the Martini Bar, home of the awesome martini sampler. |
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The Martini Bar features a frozen bartop. It is called an ice bar, but being ice bar snobs, we'll call it a frozen bartop. |
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Here's the big atrium, where they keep all of the duty free shops. |
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Oh, how Debbie wanted this necklace, but at $3,000 "on sale," it was a little too pricy for her taste. |
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But back to the tour. Here's the grand staircase in the atrium. |
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Yeah, this is a picture of a pole. But it is the very pole we posed next to for a formal portrait in 2002. |
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These beautiful glass sculptures are in the center of each staircase. |
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The ship is covered in art, including a series of 3D line drawings on one of the stairwell landings. |
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This set of artwork caught our eye, ... |
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... and as usual, we both had the same favorite: the figure expressed as a series of digits. |
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This colorful mosaic is in the Islands Cafe. |
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Chicks dig seahorses, and these three glass displays in the Rendezvous Lounge (or was it the Crystal Room?) were filled with them. |
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This sculpture is titled Life on Galápagos, and it is easy to tell why. We would eventually see for ourselves four years later. |
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We spent the afternoon as usual, with Tom reading and Debbie processing the pictures taken so far. |
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Zenobio stopped by to dispense sandwiches, pastries, and tea as always. |
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We always tried to catch the sunset, and here is it setting over the Pacific Ocean. |
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We like sunsets! |
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At dusk, things got very quiet on the pool deck. |
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At dinner, we ordered the drink of the day: mojitos! Yeah, we were drinking mojitos like Sam Axe. |
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Our appetizer was a spring roll filled with rice noodles and shrimp. It was so incredibly delicious that we asked our waiter for seconds and he was good enough to oblige. |
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