Spring 2016 – Day 11

This is our second from last sea day and we would normally sleep later than when we are in a port; however, that didn’t happen and we both woke up early.  Ed ate breakfast while Barb got ready and we were both on the deck in wonderful sun by 8:30am.

By 11:00am Barb realized that maybe we were close to burning and so we went in, cleaned up and walked around until it was time to meet everyone in the AquaSpa for lunch at 12:30pm.

After lunch, while Ed was talking to the future cruise sales office about a cruise/tour that included Africa, Barb hit a nice jackpot in the Casino!!

At 2:00pm we went to see a singer/comedian who had preformed earlier in the cruise and she was fantastic.

Then we all went to the casino as they were holding a drawing at 3:00pm for cash prizes.  We didn’t win any of the prizes; however, we all had a huge run at the blackjack table and after 1 hour all of us got up from the table together with nice winnings.  That is the first time we think that has ever happened to all of us.

The 7:00 pm show was a show called “Reckless in Vegas” and it was a terrible show featuring songs of the 1960’s by a trio of performers and they attempted to sing the songs as if they were rock songs.  They were very bad. Jeff said they were talented but there was no excuse for poor taste!!

As usual, we went to dinner and then to the casino.  Dinner tonight was excellent and in the casino, Barb broke even and Ed had a great run.

Tomorrow we arrive at Georgetown on the island of Grand Cayman – our last stop and second to last day of the cruise.

Night for now.

Going out for the afternoon

Time to go to the Casino

Going out for the evening

Spring 2016 – Day 10

For the second day in a row we woke up in the port of Cartagena, Colombia as we had stayed overnight in the port.

We left the ship at 9:00am by ourselves and took a taxi into the Old City, were we proceeded to see the sights that we had missed yesterday.  We particularly wanted to visit the churches of the city and there were three very old Catholic churches that we visited. 

One of the churches was built in the 17^th century and they all were in amazingly good shape.  We happened to walk into one of them as they were having mass and saying the Lord’s Prayer to a packed church – what an experience.

In another church we followed a stairway up to the third floor and came upon the organ which again was from the 17^th century.  In several rooms behind the organ were the restoration rooms where they were working on restoring a number of items from the church.  They let us walk through and it was amazing to see what they were doing.

We finally made our way to the opposite end of the city where we met Jeff, Vera, Tim and Barbara for lunch.  We ate at the place we were going to go to yesterday but it was closed on Sunday.  We all agreed that the food was very good, but probably in 3^rd place of the three restaurants we ate at in town,  but still very good.

Following lunch, we took a cab back to the ship at 3:00pm as the ship was leaving at 4:30pm.  We then had the chance to go to the helicopter pad on the front of the ship, as Jeff and Vera had an invitation and asked us to join them.  We had a chance to see the ship leaving port from the very front of the ship which was interesting.

The show tonight was a piano player who was very good, playing like Jerry Lee Lewis, Victor Borge and Liberace.

We ate at 8:00pm tonight so that the ladies could get to the casino as there was purse give-a-way and none of them won.  As a matter of fact both of us lost tonight in the casino.  The good news is that we are still ahead for the trip.

Tomorrow is a sea day and a great chance to just relax and we heading north for the first time.

Night

At the entrance to the old city

17th century organ

Another great shop!!

Right in the walkway from the port