Day 04 - 10/10/23 - At sea to Puerto Límon, Costa Rica

 Today was my kind of day:  lots of free time and a couple of key lectures and presentations.


We got up at 7:15am in order to participate in the interdenominational devotional at 8:30.  Jeremy presented a canned EXC talk on the Panama Canal that was pretty good.  Tom Goltz followed it with a history of the Panama Canal that was very good.  And with that I was done for the day except to read, lounge, walk the deck in the heat & humidity, and help fellow passengers with excursion questions for those I'm leading.


Tonight was a dressy night (formal) but we ate once again in the LIDO.  One thing we're really liking is that with only 960 passengers out of a capacity of 1,400, it's really easy to find seating in the LIDO or most any venue.  We had a Captain's toast before Ashley York returned to the main stage as the evening entertainment. She performed a lot of powerful opera songs. We also checked out the mix pianist who was pretty good.  


I should comment that the seas are still very flat, very few clouds, and that it's very hot & humid.  The Lido pool area is quite oppressive to walk through.  While doing a mile around the Lower Promenade, I found a stowaway bird.  There's no way it could fly the distance back to land.


There's been no word yet on a possible room change so we've still not unpacked.

After we came back to the room we received a number of Grand voyage gifts: a heavy shopping bag, a travel case, a sun hat, a wallet and a 7,000 Milli-amp battery.




Tomorrow we have an excursion in Puerto Límon for most of the day, and we have a 3:30pm on board time.


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