The Panama Canal-Ft. Lauderdale to San Francisco-20-night Voyage, May 6-26, Regent Seven Seas Navigator

Text by Snookums, Pictures by Filbert

Part Five

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May 11 (Tuesday, Day 7, At sea) -

Today was a slow day. Not much interested us on the schedule of activities. Filbert and Snookums were invited to the “Titanium, Platinum and Gold Members” Seven Seas Society gathering at 11:15 since we sailed at least 75 days and are Gold. 80 people were there and the ship has 500 guests on it. That’s a pretty high ratio of very frequent cruisers. We hobnobbed with various officers and Paul, the Cruise Director. Randy Cabral, the master of juggling and comedy, also gave a 5-minute performance for us so that was neat.. Snookums was hoping for some good food, like a light lunch, but had to settle for a dessert waffle bar with various sweet toppings. She actually didn’t have any but instead waited for lunch. Bill was part of the party, too, since he turned Gold on this cruise and was able to finagle an invitation to this event.

Snookums went to “Cardio Circuit” and managed to raise her heart rate a lot for 45 minutes and didn’t pass out. In the meantime, Filbert ate some bad seafood salad and paid the price later. (He didn’t go to dinner since he was sick but felt better immediately after ridding his body of the bad seafood salad.)

Mom, Dad and Snookums went to Randy Cabral’s juggling/comedy show after dinner and once again Mom had to use her inhaler since she laughed so much. Randy does some really stupid tricks and says some really stupid things but he’s hilarious.

May 12 (Wednesday, Day 8, Puerto Limon, Costa Rica; 510 Costa Rican colon to the dollar) -

A dreary start

We had an early shore excursion today. We met at 8 AM for a trip to Veragua Rainforest.

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The Panama Canal-Ft. Lauderdale to San Francisco-20-night Voyage, May 6-26, Regent Seven Seas Navigator

Text by Snookums, Pictures by Filbert

Part Four

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May 10 (Monday, Day 6, Cartagena, Colombia, continued) -

The galleon

We had a second shore excursion booked for today so everyone rested up for it. Around 4:00 we boarded a Spanish galleon for a 2-hour cruise of the Bay of Cartagena.

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The Panama Canal-Ft. Lauderdale to San Francisco-20-night Voyage, May 6-26, Regent Seven Seas Navigator

Text by Snookums, Pictures by Filbert

Part Three

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May 9 (Sunday, Day 5, At sea) -

Aerobics room

Snookums attended “Body Sculpt” which consisted of 8 different stations where you lifted free weights or did push-ups or crunches for 3 minutes at a time. Amazingly enough, a 5-pound weight in each hand gets very heavy after you do a million reps of one exercise for 3 minutes! Filbert walked around the deck for 45 minutes and had a great workout fighting the wind for half of every lap.

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The Panama Canal-Ft. Lauderdale to San Francisco-20-night Voyage, May 6-26, Regent Seven Seas Navigator

Text by Snookums, Pictures by Filbert

Part Two

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May 8 (Saturday, Day 4, George Town, Cayman Islands) -

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.

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The Panama Canal-Ft. Lauderdale to San Francisco-20-night Voyage, May 6-26, Regent Seven Seas Navigator

Text by Snookums, Pictures by Filbert

Part One

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May 5 (Wednesday, Day 1, Flying to Ft. Lauderdale) -

The traveling party in their usual positions: Snookums on the phone, Mom and Dad reading, Judy doing something mysterious and inexplicable (or at least not visible from this angle), and Filbert (not shown here) taking pictures of the foregoing . . .

We left our house at 8:30 AM and stopped at Mom and Dad’s to get them and Judy for the trip to the airport. Our flight to St. Louis was delayed since the co-pilot seat was broken.

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This is the front page for our dispatches from our "Bollywood to South Beach" cruise on the Regent Seven Seas Voyager, from October 29-December 18, 2009.

Here are the individual posts, collected all in one handy location for your reading pleasure. As we travel, we'll be adding posts so you can follow our journeys.

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The Bollywood to South Beach Voyage - Regent Seven Seas Voyager, October 29-December 18, 2009

Text by Snookums, Pictures by Filbert

Part Thirty-seven

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December 17 (Thursday, Day 50, Crossing the Tropic of Cancer) -

Doughnut

We both woke up around 9:30 and hurried upstairs for our last leisurely breakfast. Christiaan saw Snookums coming and immediately found her a chocolate doughnut and ordered Filbert’s two pots of hot water. There wasn’t much of a breeze and we were mostly in the shade but it was still quite warm so our breakfast wasn’t too long.

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The Bollywood to South Beach Voyage - Regent Seven Seas Voyager, October 29-December 18, 2009

Text by Snookums, Pictures by Filbert

Part Thirty-six

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December 16 (Wednesday, Day 49, Cruising the Atlantic Ocean) -

Snookums woke up and worked out and when she came back to the cabin Filbert was ready for breakfast. We emerged from the cabin to find the lower decks decorated for Christmas. The crew only had time to do part of the ship during the night.

Atrium holiday trim

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The Bollywood to South Beach Voyage - Regent Seven Seas Voyager, October 29-December 18, 2009

Text by Snookums, Pictures by Filbert

Part Thirty-five

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December 14 (Monday, Day 47, St. John’s, Antigua – amended to be a day at sea) -

Antigua--as close as we were going to get

Snookums woke up and went to Muscle Mix. While doing crunches the Captain made an announcement saying that since one of our four engines is broken we will not be stopping in Antigua today and will head directly for San Juan, Puerto Rico. We were originally scheduled to get to Puerto Rico at noon on Tuesday but now will arrive at 7 AM. We were not thrilled by this news since we haven’t been to Antigua before and have been to San Juan several times, but things like this happen on cruise ships. There won’t be any zip lining in Antigua for us today!

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The Bollywood to South Beach Voyage - Regent Seven Seas Voyager, October 29-December 18, 2009

Text by Snookums, Pictures by Filbert

Part Thirty-four

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December 12 (Saturday, Day 45, Cruising the Atlantic Ocean) -

Dr. Gay Culverhouse, former President of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Snookums woke up and started getting ready to work out and then diarrhea hit. She stayed in the room most of the day and ventured outside for lunch where she ate the two cinnamon rolls that Filbert brought her in the morning for breakfast. Filbert, on the other hand, had a full day and attended the enrichment lecture on Puerto Rico and the PBS Frontline screening of “Sick Around the World”. Later in the afternoon he went to a lecture that was given by a passenger. Dr. Gay Culverhouse is sailing on the Voyager and a few days before she boarded the ship in Mumbai, she appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on “Legal issues relating to football head injuries”. She is the former president of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Filbert said that her lecture said that if you get a concussion, you should sit in a dark room for 1 week (i.e. don’t let your brain do any work) and that will help prevent the early onset of dementia that is being seen in some athletes that have had multiple concussions.

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