Although I was cruising on a ship called the Conquest (a horrible name for a ship visiting former and current colonies), the theme of the decor was not conqustadors or femmes fatale, but impressionism. I'm not the biggest fan of impressionism, but fortunately, the ship did not strike me as at all hideous ( Read more... )

When I first got off the ship, walking on dry land did not feel unusual at all ( Read more... )

Before leaving on the cruise, I came up with several strategies for dealing with infinite food. This entry is about how that went ( Read more... )

I used almost every single thing I packed and wished I had packed more: fancier shoes and more necklaces. I looked around to see how everyone else had fit all their stuff into things they could carry themselves. I think the secret was a bigger suitcase. I had a carry-on suitcase and a large knapsack (plus Robin took three items for me in his ( Read more... )

Some of us went to an aerobics/strength building class on ship days at eight in the morning. Two of these days it was taught by this guy who felt that you need only six exercises to work all your muscles. I don't believe this, but still, it sounded like a good start. We only did four of these ( Read more... )

Today we visited Cozumel Mexico. I had planned to bicycle to a really cool park and walk around learning about plants and architecture, but I wasn't prepared enough and didn't find the bicycle rental place until later than I wanted to be starting that adventure. I just shopped along the main road with Robin ( Read more... )

We learned just a tiny bit about the Cayman Islands on our way to the boat that would take us snorkeling ( Read more... )

Today's tour was a lovely tubing adventure, followed by playing around in some falls with a rope swing and then lunching on jerked chicken. All of that was very pleasant and all, but not the best part of this trip. (Although Robin also added in a zipline tour, which was one of the best parts of this trip for him ( Read more... )

Today we went on a rather mediocre galley tour, but there were still some good parts to it ( Read more... )

Six of us gathered in the party cabin to watch "Premonition" on TV yesterday. I'd heard it wasn't that great because it didn't make any sense and there were plot problems. Actually it made adequate sense and we saw only one plot problem ( Read more... )