It's been a wild ride from Panama to Costa Rica and now to Roatan, Honduras. Aunt Bette and John have both been seasick; Aunt Bette was the more serious. But we are now anchored off Roatan, in a calm spot and people are beginning to recover.
For those of us who don't generally get seasick, it's been kind of nice in that the ship is all of a sudden quiet and nice. To ride up in the 7th deck lounge, watching the horizon line appear and disappear, and playing games and reading, is pretty great if you're me, and I have enjoyed this as much as anything else really.
It has reminded me of another time, on another ship, the Queen Mary. Coming home from living in Paris, on the second day out from Southampton, as the Captain said: "Coming out from the shadow of Ireland...", and while everyone else on board got seasick, I bought myself a massage in the spa on board.
The massage itself was one of the better ones, rocking and rolling on the table with hot stones pressed into me. But it was followed by a time in the hot tub, which was really more like a small pool with a waterfall at one end, and a fountain in the middle, which I had all to myself. Swimming about in the hot tub with the water rolling and the jets gurgling, and the fountain spraying was about as luxurious as it gets, and I lasted about 45 minutes.
That will not happen on board here though. This is an adventure trip, sponsored by the Institute for Shipboard Education at the University of Virginia, and has been in general well-run, and fascinating, even after the "Arch" and his family left.Usually at each port we have a choice of going on an adventure expotition, a service trip or a cultural trip. Most of us mix and match, rotate, but there are some who just do one or the other. At the last two stops, in Porto Limon, Costa Rica, and in Cristobal, Panama, the service trips have been cancelled due to the POURING rain, so I've not been able to use my iguana puppet yet, but I will, somewhere...
PS I've had trouble loading images. Google says I have to buy more space in a Picasa album site, buit since I have no idea how to do that, here on board, the photos will have to wait until I get home and can figure this out. Sorry, as the Canal pics are quite interesting.
For those of us who don't generally get seasick, it's been kind of nice in that the ship is all of a sudden quiet and nice. To ride up in the 7th deck lounge, watching the horizon line appear and disappear, and playing games and reading, is pretty great if you're me, and I have enjoyed this as much as anything else really.
It has reminded me of another time, on another ship, the Queen Mary. Coming home from living in Paris, on the second day out from Southampton, as the Captain said: "Coming out from the shadow of Ireland...", and while everyone else on board got seasick, I bought myself a massage in the spa on board.
The massage itself was one of the better ones, rocking and rolling on the table with hot stones pressed into me. But it was followed by a time in the hot tub, which was really more like a small pool with a waterfall at one end, and a fountain in the middle, which I had all to myself. Swimming about in the hot tub with the water rolling and the jets gurgling, and the fountain spraying was about as luxurious as it gets, and I lasted about 45 minutes.
That will not happen on board here though. This is an adventure trip, sponsored by the Institute for Shipboard Education at the University of Virginia, and has been in general well-run, and fascinating, even after the "Arch" and his family left.Usually at each port we have a choice of going on an adventure expotition, a service trip or a cultural trip. Most of us mix and match, rotate, but there are some who just do one or the other. At the last two stops, in Porto Limon, Costa Rica, and in Cristobal, Panama, the service trips have been cancelled due to the POURING rain, so I've not been able to use my iguana puppet yet, but I will, somewhere...
PS I've had trouble loading images. Google says I have to buy more space in a Picasa album site, buit since I have no idea how to do that, here on board, the photos will have to wait until I get home and can figure this out. Sorry, as the Canal pics are quite interesting.
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