Good morning Maw and fellow jewels.
Well, yes.. we did the P@N@M@ cruise on the Coral Princess.
It is one of the most outstanding cruises I have ever done. Now growing up in England, my sis and I are very familiar with locks, they were pretty much over the place. And I have visited sis over the years and seen the Welland Canal. So I did not think that part of the cruise would interest me. I was SO wrong!
First.. the history is so amazing, and I LOVE history, it was one of the things I cot a certificate in when I "graduated" (we did not call it graduating) from school.
Then there were the ports.
They were so interesting. And the best part..... you bought stuff made by hand there. Not the SOS... 'Emeralds are us, linens are us".. and so on :grin Honey bought a lovely wooden place mat thingee.. Jack should take a picture of it and post it here.
They had paintings done on feathers, Lovely carved items, all kinds of things.
Then we came to the canal itself. I loved watching the mules going back and forth.
That cruise did not go all the way through the canal, so we took the all day boat trip that did go all the way through to the Pacific.
It was HOT! although the boat had A/C ask tobyn about going topside :lol we would pace ourselves between inside and outside.
And the whole trip was so interesting. We also did the white water rafting.
I am really looking forward to going again.
Einstein, finding out that you were related to Maw and paw would be a plus in my books.
maw, thank you for doing this.
The one thing about these group cruise boards is keeping the excitement going through the wait.
usually there is plenty to say, as questions are asked and information is posted, but then we hit that slow period.
A thread where we can chat is a great idea. Now we have to find someone on the HAL board who would also like to do this, That one is even further out there :grin
happy =sailor
