Day 7 Panama & Carribean Cruise

Day 7 At Sea

This is our final sea day before we hit 5 islands in a row. I have finally figured this cruise out; all of the sea days are intended to allow us to build up our strength before the strenuous effort of exploring 5 islands, one after the other – the 24hr food helps as well!

I took in an excellent lecture in the morning; “Frozen in Time”. The lecture was given by the author and explorer John Geiger and presented his explanation for the loss of the 1854 British Artic Expedition, which disappeared without a trace. Included were some quite gruesome pictures of 3 bodies they exhumed from graves they discovered in the Artic. Post mortems revealed that the bodies had very high levels of lead in them; it’s believed the lead came from the canned food that the expedition took along – canning having only just been invented.

We all lunched at the Todd English restaurant – enough said.

After lunch I lazed at the Spa all after noon – I know it’s tough on this cruise. I even dozed off in the relaxation area – I hope I didn’t snore too loudly; otherwise they may have to rename this area.

Dinner was uneventful – you know, more great food served with impeccable style. It was however, another Penguin Suit night. More James Bond music.

The evening’s entertainment started with a great show featuring the 4 young resident singers and the entire QM2 orchestra. They performed songs from musicals as well as popular composers – a definite cut above the average cruise ship performance.

We then moved (via the bar) to the Buccaneer’s Ball in the Queens Ballroom. A Caribbean band was playing and it was “normal “dancing, so Sandra and I could strut our stuff, LOL. Many of the revelers were decked out in appropriate pirate attire, especially the Gentlemen Hosts – who really got into the swing of things. I noticed that a mini pirate kit could be purchased at the door for $10; I couldn’t resist. The kit consisted of a pirate hat, eye patch and bandana – not quite Johnny Depp, in fact not even close. The kit must have had the desired affect because when I returned to our table, no one recognized me – hard to believe isn’t? The kit was duly passed around the 4 of us for the obligatory pictures, are we cheap or what?

A good night was had by all.

We retired, thinking of the exciting days ahead; Curacao, Grenada, Barbados, St. Kitts and finally Tortola.