Laurie and Carol's Panama Adventure Updated 6/11 COMPLETE
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**chezp** · 05-19-2008, 12:04 AM

Sounds like another great day - shame about the excursion being cancelled though.

**lauriep** · 05-19-2008, 08:24 AM

Beautiful morning as we cruise closer to Acapulco. We're scheduled to arrive in port at 11:45am and will be departing at 10pm. I watched the sunrise from the deck 7 aft overlook and it was gorgeous. We had lots of flying fish leaping about this morning.

My room-mate, Carol, has been following the "Mystery Soap Opera" that the cruise staff is acting out and I went to see what it was all about yesterday. This started a few days ago and was listed in the navigator. After that one notice, though, you have to go to the meetings and follow the clues. You are given a small notebook to keep track of the clues. The crew members play different characters. From what I gather this all takes place on a cruise ship and there are many characters. You're trying to guess who stole a valuable painting. The script is very funny, and the ad-libs even funnier--very talented youngsters! Last night Carol got an envelope under the door with a note telling her to watch the TV, channel 11 for her next clue at 8am today. Very cleverly done.

I went to bingo yesterday. I know, it's a ridiculous way to throw your money away, but it was a lot of fun. The snowball jackpot is over $10,000!! The daily prizes are between $300-$500 per game.

Can you tell I'm totally into cruising?

**chezp** · 05-19-2008, 09:27 AM

It does sound like you're totally into cruising, yes!

**Colexis Mom** · 05-19-2008, 12:18 PM

Glad you're having a great time Laurie

**NanaTink** · 05-19-2008, 04:27 PM

Sounds like a wonderful time! That mystery sounds like lots of fun! Hope they do something like that for us too! I'm ready for some relaxing fun!!!!
The dolphins and flying fish sound like fun to watch as well! I've never been lucky enough to see any.
Thanks for all the updates. Sorry your activity was cancelled. Enjoy your time on the "empty ship"

**retiredkid** · 05-19-2008, 04:48 PM

I just found your report. Palo is fabulous, isn't it? Those are fabulous photos of the canal. I would love to do that someday, sigh.
We were in 7118 in March, and also had Rodolfo. Wasn't he great???

**lauriep** · 05-19-2008, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by retiredkid

I just found your report. Palo is fabulous, isn't it? Those are fabulous photos of the canal. I would love to do that someday, sigh.
We were in 7118 in March, and also had Rodolfo. Wasn't he great???

Rodolfo is wonderful! And I love the aft room location. So convenient to the restaurants. And we had sunrise from the veranda heading to the canal and sunset from the canal north to LA.

**lauriep** · 05-19-2008, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by NanaTink

Sounds like a wonderful time! That mystery sounds like lots of fun! Hope they do something like that for us too! I'm ready for some relaxing fun!!!!
The dolphins and flying fish sound like fun to watch as well! I've never been lucky enough to see any.
Thanks for all the updates. Sorry your activity was cancelled. Enjoy your time on the "empty ship"

I hope they do the mystery for you as well. It's called "Desperate Shipmates". Today in order to get the next clue we had to go to Rockin' Bar D and say to the DJ, "Mickey wants what Pluto has." What a hoot!

I had a wonderful day in Acapulco. Only got off the ship for about an hour and wandered around the shops in the sort-of-depressing terminal area. Right back on the ship for a smoothie at Quiet Cove, then I watched some of the Elvis movie "Fun in Acapulco" on the Ariel screen. The harbor at Acapulco is very scenic, so I walked about taking photos on deck 10. The ship was quiet and lovely.

**DyanKJ130** · 05-20-2008, 11:09 AM

The mystery soap opera and bingo sound like a lot of fun!!

**lauriep** · 05-21-2008, 04:25 PM

Last night we had the Mickey Mouse Club dinner at Animator's Palate. The kids (large and small) marched around to the Mickey Mouse Club march with Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Donald and Daisy. Our servers all wore white turtlenecks and mouse-ears. Great fun!

Today we woke up in Puerto Vallarta, docked right across the street from a Walmart and Sams Club! But the port is beautiful as are the surrounding mountains.

Carol and I went on the "Historic Towns and Tequila Making" tour. Although I had no interest in the tequila and went mostly for a glimpse at some of the old towns away from the more touristy ports, I really enjoyed the little family-owned tequila factory. They had a small gift shop and the description of the tequila-making process was very interesting. Those who tasted the flavored tequilas said they were wonderful. The little towns, too were interesting, though sometimes the most interesting thing was how the huge tour bus got through the narrow streets. We were supposed to have lunch next and headed off on a loooong trip down an unpaved path. After about 45 minutes, the tour leader announced we were LOST! The path was too narrow for the bus to turn around, so we retraced our journey in reverse! The air conditioning on the bus was not working and it was HOT. We finally got back on our path and the restaurant was fine, but we ended up having to skip the trip to the wood-carving studio that was supposed to follow lunch. Carol and I were singing ".....a three hour tour".

Very nice to be back home on the ship. Docked right next to us is the Carnival Pride,
making the Magic look even more elegant.

**Colexis Mom** · 05-21-2008, 05:38 PM

Another great day!! Sorry about the bus ride

**NanaTink** · 05-21-2008, 06:18 PM

Eeeek! Glad that's not the tour we signed up for in PV! Sounds like it was lots of fun and the Mickey Mouse Club dinner sounds a hoot! I remember singing that song when I was little during the 60's reruns!
Can't wait to hear more!

JoanW · 05-21-2008, 08:15 PM

Great updates and I love the photos!

**Grammy Grumpy** · 05-21-2008, 10:13 PM

Goodness, a trip in reverse!! What a challenge. Thanks for keeping us up to date on your adventures.

mcc0313 · 05-21-2008, 10:17 PM

The tour sounded very interesting...sorry about the hot bus and getting lost but glad you enjoyed the day....

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