Not much happening here. We went to see Chocolat (which neither of us had seen) and quite enjoyed it. At dinner tonight, we sat with four other Canadians, two of which even spend time in Saskatchewan regularly. It was quite interesting sitting at a table with 6 Canadians, and 2 Americans, the Americans kind of seemed left out a bit. Not to worry though, they outnumber us in general. Interestingly enough, it was the first dinner where no complaints were heard. I’m not sure if that’s a function of the fact that the table was Canadian dominated or what, but the past two dinners we had at least one complainer at the table. It’s kind of funny actually, we have noticed a lot of the old ladies on the ship are prolific complainers.

Last night was the first Formal dinner, which was nice. The food was quite good too. Despite what you may hear, the food isn’t overwhelming copious. The three course meals for supper may sound daunting, but each course is relatively small, and it adds up to a nice dinner. Don’t get me wrong, if you want to eat a lot of food, the 24 hour buffet is there with as much food as you could ever want, but it doesn’t compare very favorably with the meals in the dining room.

After the formal dinner, Erin and I tried to go to a show - “C’est Magnifique” which was too full a half hour before curtain, so we ended up going back to the cabin and watching Bedazzled on the laptop. It was neat to be laying in bed watching a movie on our laps. After the movie, we went out for a stroll on deck, and ended up setting up a couple of deck chairs and staring at the stars. It’s too bad the ship is so overly lit, because it really reduces the amount of stars that are visible.

Oh, yeah, that sunset thing - apparently they don’t have sunsets here - at least not ones that can hold a candle to the ones back home - just another one of the things that I take for granted I guess. Basically the sunset was a big orange dipping below the horizon. That’s it. No fanfare, no cool colours. Oh well, can’t have everything I guess, it is quite warm here in January after all.

Speaking of warm, the humidity is killing me. It’s 95% all day every day. It’s definitely nice to come indoors to the airconditioned parts of the ship to cool off. Don’t get me wrong, we’re still spending lots of time on deck, or in the pools, it’s just nice to cool down every now and then.

Anyway, tomorrow is Cartagena, so we leave the ship at 8:00 and go on a tour of the old fort. I think it should be fun at any rate. We’ve got the camera all loaded up and ready to snap lots of pictures, so hopefully I’ll be able to post some of them here.