Earkid’s Excellent Panama Canal Cruise Adventure May 10-25, 2008

[Earkid]

May 15
Breakfast in Lumiere’s by a porthole.



Meeting Captain Thord



My birthday dinner in Lumeiere’s.


What the savvy cruiser wears..........blinged out flip flops.


I love this light fixture.


My birthday cake


We’ve arrived at Cristobal, Panama. Tomorrow is the day we’ve been waiting for!

[Earkid]

May 16
Our first view of all the activity around the Canal




The sub that made us late into the locks.




Old French canal on the right, current canal on the left




A closer view




Into the lock with the help of a waving Mickey hand




The ships are lining up for their turn




Heading under the Centennial Bridge




We caught up to the sub at the Pedro Miguel Lock.




The lock beside us rapidly filling up




So close to the walls. The view from a deck 3 porthole.




Resting on the way to the final set of locks, the Mira Flores locks.




Panama City




Under the Bridge of the Americas and into the Pacific




Yea! Our Ducky Williams litho was waiting on our beds after dinner

[kelly]

shayne I love it so far

[WheresMickey]

Nice report, I always wanted to try a Disney Cruise.

[Earkid]

May 17
Today was going to be a recovery day since the trip through the Canal was long and hot. But I’d do it again in a heartbeat. We woke up to find the sea was like glass.



We went to Ducky William’s presentation. He has got to be the nicest, most generous man on the planet.



As usual he had drawings to raffle off at the end. I wanted the Tinker Bell drawing so bad but didn't win.




Later we were able to have Ducky sign our litho and some of the lenticular postcards.



It was Prince and Princess, semi-formal night. The tiaras were everywhere.




The chocolate slipper wasn’t what we expected…..but still good.

[Earkid]

May 18
Another lazy sea day.



DH went to the Captain’s Q&A and said it was very interesting.



A great dinner deserves a great Thank You



Gotta have another chocolate something



We call him “Mayan Dude”



We took a late night tour of the ship and found a beautiful moon above a beautiful stack.



The ship is kind of neat when it’s deserted.

[pratt55]

I love this picture of you!!

[Earkid]

May 19
Hello Acapulco!



Oops, it’s not Acapulco, it’s VW-land.



This is where we start our hike to view the Petroglyphs of Palma Sola



Petroglyphs



The view from the top, the Magic is over Kevin’s shoulder. OMG it was sooooo hot and humid.



We visited Tequila land



Minnie entertained us with a Mexican dance. Who knew she could move like that?

[Villains Fan]

I'm just loving reliving all of this Shayne! I love the picture of you in the porthole, that was one of my favorite spots too.

The chocolate something dessert ...we had so many of those!

Keep posting pictures...maybe we can just keep our threads going until the next cruise .

[Earkid]

Originally Posted by Villains Fan

I'm just loving reliving all of this Shayne! I love the picture of you in the porthole, that was one of my favorite spots too.

The chocolate something dessert ...we had so many of those!

Aw, Jo I miss you so much. It was so much fun to have dinner with everyone every night and chat about our adventures. I think I will stay away from the chocolate somethings on my next cruise. They were all kind of disappointing, except for that rich chocolate thingy at Palo.

Keep posting pictures...maybe we can just keep our threads going until the next cruise .

I'm trying!

[Villains Fan]

Hey, I've got hundreds of more pictures I could post

[Earkid]

Originally Posted by Villains Fan

Hey, I've got hundreds of more pictures I could post

Post away. You won't get any argument from me. You could post a "cruise pic of the week". That would keep us going for years! Wheee!

[pratt55]

Shayne, my postcard just got here from Castaway Cay It was postmarked the July 16th. I guess it was on the slow boat. So you were thinking about me while you were sailing away.

[alphabassetgrrl]

Great pictures! The cruise was so much fun, thank you for bringing those memories back so clearly!
**hugs**

[Earkid]

Originally Posted by pratt55

Shayne, my postcard just got here from Castaway Cay It was postmarked the July 16th. I guess it was on the slow boat. So you were thinking about me while you were sailing away.

See, I told you I was thinking of you guys. I handed those postcards over to DCL to be mailed on May 11th and they get postmarked July 16th. I'm just glad everyone is starting to get them. A nice little surprise.

Originally Posted by alphabassetgrrl

Great pictures! The cruise was so much fun, thank you for bringing those memories back so clearly!
**hugs**

Thanks Kerry. Miss you. I guess I should finish this puppy up, huh?