15 - 10/16/2021 - At Sea to the Panama Canal - 4th Day

When I wrote yesterday that today would be quite different, I never dreamed how different it would be.

 

Our first view of outside was very low clouds and rain.  This would be interesting for photography.  But we made our way to breakfast a bit earlier than normal as we expected a full house at the coffee chat with The Alley Cats.  It was really good and that led to the Cruise Director's canned presentation on the Panama Canal which was quite good.

 

Afterwards I went out to see if photography was feasible, and it really wasn't.  So I gave up and we ate a quiet Lido lunch.  The afternoon was a repeat of the morning Panama Canal presentation followed by two Panama Canal documentaries: Panama Canal: Mountains & Mosquitoes and Big, Bigger, Biggest (a technical film about how canals work and are built). Both were quite good.

 

I tried to photograph more, but the conditions were poor, so I stopped by the Photo Shop and entered a few photos in the ship's contest.

 

After dinner, we watched Hyperion Knight give another clinic on classical piano compositions before we went up to the Lido to watch the Husky-UCLA football game. We gave up watching it there due to the poor picture quality and finished watching it in our room.

 

Tomorrow starting at 4:45am CDT we begin the northbound transit of the Panama Canal which will take until at least 3:30pm.



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