2010 Panama Canal Cruise, part 2
- Tuesday, May 11 2010 @ 04:58 PM CST
- Contributed by: filbert
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Text by Snookums, Pictures by Filbert
Part Two
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May 8 (Saturday, Day 4, George Town, Cayman Islands) -
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Snookums, Bill, Judy |
Judy, Snookums, Filbert and Bill went on the snorkel excursion this morning. This was Bill’s first snorkel experience ever and the water could not have been any better. It was very smooth, very clear and very warm.
More after the jump . . . And the fish were good, too! Our first stop was at Cheeseburger Reef (named for the Burger King on shore) and we saw a variety of fish and coral and even a sea turtle.
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Fish, possibly happy |
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Bill |
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Snookums making sure Bill doesn't drown or something |
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Judy swimming with the fishes |
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Filbert, doing "superman stretches" underwater (actually, just trying to stay beneath the surface for the photo) |
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Snookums always looks just a bit more intimidating under water |
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Stripey fish, and wreck |
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Bluish fish, and wreck |
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Fish swimming around in circles |
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Bill, playing tourist |
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Bill, wooden friend, flags, and Navigator, with world currently listing slightly to starboard. |
We had a nice dinner in Compass Rose and the wait staff was very attentive. The headwaiter came up and apologized for the chip in the lunch glass and so did the maitre d’. Towards the end of dinner the headwaiter asked if the head sommelier had spoken to us yet since glassware was her responsibility. We said “no”. Snookums doesn’t care about the chip in the glass. She just didn’t want someone to drink out of it. At this point, it appears that everyone in any kind of “power” position in the Food and Beverage Department knows who we are. That’s okay with us since it might get us an additional reservation at Prime 7 or something like that.
After dinner Mom, Filbert and Snookums went to Randy Cabal’s show. It was billed as “juggling, comedy and other useless skills”. We all laughed a lot and Mom even had to use her inhaler since she was laughing so much. Randy kind of did “stupid human tricks” and said silly things. His three-paddle-ball act is . . . well . . . hard to describe in strictly polite terms. It did nearly cause Mom to die of asthmatic asphyxiation complicated by uncontrollable laughter, however. He’s going to do one more show before he leaves the ship and we’ll go to that one, too. We'll put the ship's medical staff on stand-by.