After breakfast we attended the 9am coffee chat with Joep, the Cruise Director and Florian, the Hotel Director. They answered a wide variety of questions including many related to the just completed 9 day dry dock. In summary, the dry dock was used for a complete recarpeting and reupholstering of the Crow's Nest, the Lido Market, and the Showroom at Sea along with major engine room repairs especially focused on the cooling system. The zodiacs were added and lifeboat twelve was taken out of service and repairs to it are on going as we sail. All the while the crew lived on board with no hot water or toilets and 600 contractors did their work all over the ship. Some work continues to be done, but it's transparent to me as a passenger. They do need to wash the windows in the Main Dining room. I look forward to more of these coffee chats on future sea days.
The seas continued to be flat and the weather warm and after dinner Angela and I enjoyed watching the planets in the clear night sky which we also did a couple of weeks ago while camped on the Pacific Ocean. The moon, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars were in clear view and we helped other passengers identify the planets using our App.
Rather than regurgitate the daily program, let me summarize by saying that it was another full day of lectures and demonstrations on topics like our upcoming ports of Santa Marta, Colombia and the San Blas Islands, Panama, History and Politics of Latin America, Columbus' explorations of the Caribbean, and strange undersea creatures of the Caribbean. The evening was finished out with the Colombian folkloric dance troupe being the evening entertainment and the daily movie which was about a tailer who was a spy in Panama after the transfer of the Canal back to the Panamanians in 1999. We are really liking this new format!
We had a very pleasant dinner in the Lido with another couple from Western Washington talking about a wide range of topics mostly revolving around travel.
I heard back from the event manager that I will be leading the interdenominational worhship service on Sunday.
Tomorrow will be our first and only Port of call in Colombia. Stay tuned.
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