Hi Everyone!
Today I’m back in Acapulco which marks the end of another cruise. Only two more cruises to go now til Mum and Annette get on. I’m really getting excited now.
This cruise seemed to go slow. After all the back to back ports we had the cruise before around the Caribbean Islands, all the sea days back on this run has made it seem slow. I’ve really started to feel homesick now and am looking forward to coming home. I’m so glad Mums going to be on soon.
After my jellyfish sting in Aruba at the beginning of the cruise we then had three sea days… one of those being the day we go through the Panama Canal, which to us is like a sea day as we don’t get off. There were meant to be some brand new tours that day that have never been available before, but they were cancelled due to our delayed transit through the canal. There was a lot of traffic that day.
In Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Dave and I did a rafting tour. As it was a wet tour I didn’t take my camera, however we’ve ordered a CD of photo’s the tour company took which should arrive soon so I can show you some of those photos then. On the rafting tour we went through rapids before paddling up stream to find some crocodiles. We found two. One was about two metres long that swam on the surface of the water about 5 metres away from our raft. All up we were on the water for about an hour. It was a lot of fun.
After another sea day we then arrived in Puerto Quetzal, Guatamala where we finally spent the day at the water park. Nipples organised it for us…. The reason I say we ‘finally’ spent the day there is that this is our third attempt to go. Each other time it’s always been closed. We had such a fun day together. There were about a dozen of us racing each other down the slides and basically being big kids. I’ve included a couple of photos…. One of me on one of the slides and a group shot of all of us.
Yesterday we arrived late into Huatulco, Mexico due to bad weather which meant all the tours that day had to be cancelled. We only ever spend about 5 hours there so we ended up with only 3 hours this time. The beach is right at the end of the pier so we were able to make the most of it in the short time we had. It was really rough yesterday afternoon when we left Huatulco and rumour has it that the ship was dented on the rocks. Actually the first rumour was that we had two wholes in the hull then we heard it was dented. It was really rough, some were surprised we sailed. I remember looking out my port hole last night surprised at how close to the rocks we were. Later there were waves smashing against my port hole. Apparently we limped to Acapulco which made us late into port and we've heard some people from LA are coming to assess the damage. Rumours run rife around a ship as you can imagine. The latest we heard was that if we needed to go into dry dock for repair we could end up in San Francisco.... I doubt it though. Stay tuned I'm sure I'll have more rumours for you on this on my next update.
Last night I organised a girls night. We went for dinner in the pizzeria followed by drinks in the night club and then a movie in my room. I introduced them to one of my favourite movies called ‘The Pirate Movie’ and old eighties movie filmed in Australia based on the Pirates on Penzance. It’s a comedy and they loved it.
This cruise we celebrated Valentines day. I’ve included a photo taken that night of Danielle, John and myself. John and Danielle are the two singer dancers in my cast. I really wasn’t in the mood for celebrating (for obvious reasons) so didn’t stay down stairs in the crew bar for very long.
Overall I didn’t take too many photos this past cruise so I thought I’d put in some show photos. I haven’t put any of the production show photos in for a while. These are some of the ones that Tom Fletcher the comedian that was on a couple of cruises ago took.
I’m looking forward to coming home soon. Only ten more weeks to go!!
Today I’m back in Acapulco which marks the end of another cruise. Only two more cruises to go now til Mum and Annette get on. I’m really getting excited now.
This cruise seemed to go slow. After all the back to back ports we had the cruise before around the Caribbean Islands, all the sea days back on this run has made it seem slow. I’ve really started to feel homesick now and am looking forward to coming home. I’m so glad Mums going to be on soon.
After my jellyfish sting in Aruba at the beginning of the cruise we then had three sea days… one of those being the day we go through the Panama Canal, which to us is like a sea day as we don’t get off. There were meant to be some brand new tours that day that have never been available before, but they were cancelled due to our delayed transit through the canal. There was a lot of traffic that day.
In Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Dave and I did a rafting tour. As it was a wet tour I didn’t take my camera, however we’ve ordered a CD of photo’s the tour company took which should arrive soon so I can show you some of those photos then. On the rafting tour we went through rapids before paddling up stream to find some crocodiles. We found two. One was about two metres long that swam on the surface of the water about 5 metres away from our raft. All up we were on the water for about an hour. It was a lot of fun.
After another sea day we then arrived in Puerto Quetzal, Guatamala where we finally spent the day at the water park. Nipples organised it for us…. The reason I say we ‘finally’ spent the day there is that this is our third attempt to go. Each other time it’s always been closed. We had such a fun day together. There were about a dozen of us racing each other down the slides and basically being big kids. I’ve included a couple of photos…. One of me on one of the slides and a group shot of all of us.
Yesterday we arrived late into Huatulco, Mexico due to bad weather which meant all the tours that day had to be cancelled. We only ever spend about 5 hours there so we ended up with only 3 hours this time. The beach is right at the end of the pier so we were able to make the most of it in the short time we had. It was really rough yesterday afternoon when we left Huatulco and rumour has it that the ship was dented on the rocks. Actually the first rumour was that we had two wholes in the hull then we heard it was dented. It was really rough, some were surprised we sailed. I remember looking out my port hole last night surprised at how close to the rocks we were. Later there were waves smashing against my port hole. Apparently we limped to Acapulco which made us late into port and we've heard some people from LA are coming to assess the damage. Rumours run rife around a ship as you can imagine. The latest we heard was that if we needed to go into dry dock for repair we could end up in San Francisco.... I doubt it though. Stay tuned I'm sure I'll have more rumours for you on this on my next update.
Last night I organised a girls night. We went for dinner in the pizzeria followed by drinks in the night club and then a movie in my room. I introduced them to one of my favourite movies called ‘The Pirate Movie’ and old eighties movie filmed in Australia based on the Pirates on Penzance. It’s a comedy and they loved it.
This cruise we celebrated Valentines day. I’ve included a photo taken that night of Danielle, John and myself. John and Danielle are the two singer dancers in my cast. I really wasn’t in the mood for celebrating (for obvious reasons) so didn’t stay down stairs in the crew bar for very long.
Overall I didn’t take too many photos this past cruise so I thought I’d put in some show photos. I haven’t put any of the production show photos in for a while. These are some of the ones that Tom Fletcher the comedian that was on a couple of cruises ago took.
I’m looking forward to coming home soon. Only ten more weeks to go!!
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