"Live" - 29 Nov - 15 Dec 2018 Panama Canal on Vision

[travelgoddess1]

20 hours ago, PCWalton1 said:

Trying to figure out how to go to the Top Tier event tomorrow night at 7:15. We could eat about 5:30 but that is much earlier than we normally eat.  We could eat after around 8 but Marie would kill me so that is definitely out. 

 

So I suppose it's early.  Sigh 

 

 

 

Last cruise we went to the WJ at 6:15 or so, and then to the party at 7:15pm.  We didn’t see any other option that made sense.  

 

Thanks for the food tour and ship photos!

 

Missed you at the M&M luncheon today.

[Clarea]

3 minutes ago, travelgoddess1 said:

 

Last cruise we went to the WJ at 6:15 or so, and then to the party at 7:15pm.  ...

 

Exactly what we do, and WJ dinner can be quite nice.

[PCWalton1]

15 minutes ago, travelgoddess1 said:

 

Last cruise we went to the WJ at 6:15 or so, and then to the party at 7:15pm.  We didn’t see any other option that made sense.  

 

Thanks for the food tour and ship photos!

 

Missed you at the M&M luncheon today.

Thanks for the suggestion of WJ ad were could not get a decent MTD reservation. 

 

We thought the lunch had fallen through and didn't go to breakfast till 9:30.

[PCWalton1]

Well not much to post today so far. We got up late, missed the M&M lunch. Marie did get a belly dancing lesson in the Centrum while I was enjoying time with my Kindle. 

 

Tonight we are going to eat dinner in Windjammer so we can make it to the Top Tier event then catch a comedy duo in the theater

[PCWalton1]

Enjoyed dinner at WJ

 

 

[PCWalton1]

The Top Tier event was this evening and it was a big crowd.

 

Mario is our top cruiser with over 7000 points. 

[PCWalton1]

We stayed in the theater to watch the headliner show,  a comedy duo Alfred and Seymour.  Google them,  they are hilarious. 

 

 

[PCWalton1]

Another nocturnal visitor, this one I get. 

 

 

[Coralc]

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[JamesEM]

Super Mario does get around, I sailed with him on the Harmony this past Fall.

[Merion_Mom]

Numbers given out at the Top Tier Event:

 

1960 passengers

1475 C&A

407 Gold
237 Platinum
130 Emerald
360 Diamond
250 Diamond Plus
92 Pinnacle

Mario has 7717 points

[PCWalton1]

4 hours ago, Merion_Mom said:

Numbers given out at the Top Tier Event:

 

1960 passengers

1475 C&A

407 Gold
237 Platinum
130 Emerald
360 Diamond
250 Diamond Plus
92 Pinnacle

Mario has 7717 points

Thanks Carol. 

[LUVINMYHUBS]

Following. We will be on her in 17 days, but almost feel like I'm on her now with all your pics 🙂

[PCWalton1]

1 hour ago, LUVINMYHUBS said:

Following. We will be on her in 17 days, but almost feel like I'm on her now with all your pics 🙂

Thank you, much appreciated

 

[PCWalton1]

Hello, today is our port visit to Puerto Quetzal, Guatemaaa and we changed from our original ship tour to one called "Antigua in your hands with village". This consisted of a drive out to a village area to see tortilla handmade, coffee roasting & grinding, cloth weaving. We had a good time and even saw smoke coming out of one of the volcanoes.

 

On the road first for about an hour & 15 minutes.

 

sugar cane

 

First look at Fuego volcano, we do get closer

 

Water volcano

 

 

Better view

 

 

 

Can you see the profile of the Mayan princess in the rocks?

 

 

 

[PCWalton1]

You can see how there is less vegetation  on the slopes due to the recent activity

 

A little smoke

 

 

Even more smoke.

 

This is some of the area devastated by the major eruption back in the spring.

 

The trees are all bare

 

Rebuilding is underway

 

 

 

[PCWalton1]

We passed by coffee plantations on the way to Antigua

 

 

Potty break

 

 

 

 

 

 

First stop as mentioned an indigenous village group 

 

 

 

fresh cooked tortilla with cheese, beans and sauce

 

I am sure many of you know the name of this drink but I forget. It's made from rice, very sweet but tasty.

 

 

 

 

[PCWalton1]

Coffee being roasted and ground

 

 

Marie trying her hand at grinding and roasting

 

 

 

 

much clothing on display

 

Hand weaving

 

 

 

 

 

[PCWalton1]

The it was on to Antigua and it's cobblestone streets where first we had a bit of a driving tour before getting out to walk.

 

 

 

 

San Jose Cathedral

 

Palacio de los Capitanes Generales

 

 

 

[PCWalton1]

These are floats that are paraded during Lent

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[PCWalton1]

Next up was lunch, I don't recall the name of the restaurant but it was a lovely setting and the food was good. We had a hibiscus iced tea, bread, chicken and rice.

 

 

 

 

Sorry no food pictures. You should know by know my cameraman is not good at that.

 

Last stop was the jade "museum" for a 20 minute  stop that of course ran closer to an hour as there are always those that don't start their shopping till the end of the 20 minutes. 😜

 

 

Raw jade

 

They used five different grades of sandpaper to bring out the shine of the jade

 

 

That's it. Hope you enjoyed our excursion, I know we did.

[PCWalton1]

A couple of lunch pics from my phone. 

 

 

[PCWalton1]

See, this is what happens when I try to photograph food. I got the appetizer and completely forgot the main course and dessert By the way that was a tasty crab cake 

😂

[PCWalton1]

On 12/3/2018 at 8:07 PM, PCWalton1 said:

Need to ensure Marie plays you usual $20 in the casino.  So fast for three nights she has cashed in $60, $197, $97. I on the other hand have spent my twenty in record time.  😥

Role reversal today. Marie lost her $20 in about 5 minutes and I spent about 45 minutes turning my twenty into $450 😎

[pengu1n]

23 hours ago, PCWalton1 said:

We stayed in the theater to watch the headliner show,  a comedy duo Alfred and Seymour.  Google them,  they are hilarious. 

 

 

 

 

We have seen Alfred and Seymour on 2 of our previous cruises.  Wonder if they'll still be there for our trip coming up in a couple weeks!