Day 5 Cartagena

Good morning Cartagena! Everything is covered in salt spray from the rough seas last night. The tours were up and out early so we took our time and went to Lido for breakfast. It is nice when everyone is off the ship. At 9 AM it was already hot and hazy. We had turned in our tour tickets a couple days ago for both here and Colon since Kay has been a bit weak which is fine with me. We have taken our time and enjoyed the ship with just a few people on board. We got off and took the shuttle to the terminal. This is a very industrial port much like Buenos Aires. They don’t let you walk around to the terminal since there are cranes and trucks running everywhere. Debbie, you would have been in paradise. There is a tropical garden by the terminal building with peacocks, black swans, flamingos, monkeys, iguanas that were huge, and an owl, lots of parrots, bambi and Juan Valdez! I will post photos when I get home but I searched the entire Panama Canal cruise for Juan Valdez and he was here! I feel so much better now that I have found him, his burro and his coffee. He hasn’t heard about Keurig yet. It was stiflingly hot so we came back to rest and cool off. Our dinner was good but we have found that Mary of the pair of Mary and Richard does not have a sense of humor. The performers tonight were advertised as Emile and Marie-Claude who have performed around the world with their unique talents combining several different forms of entertainment into one amazing show! We couldn’t miss this show so we came back to the cabin and got our books and went to our usual seats in the showroom and read while we waited. Our table mates Mary and Richard were also there across the isle and chose to ignore our presence…that’s ok. The show begins and it is mildly amusing with the woman singing opera in this old fashioned hoop skirted dress.. You soon find that Emile is under her dress and it goes downhill from there. Kay said it was like a train wreck you just couldn't keep from watching. I kept looking at others thinking I was the only one who thought this whole thing was stupid and not even funny. It sat through it thinking it would get better but sadly it never did. It was so bad we needed a cocktail after the show. Yikes is all I can say. The captain had said we would have moderate to rough seas again tonight but it wasn’t bad at all….or maybe I was just exhausted from hanging onto the mattress the night before because we both fell asleep quickly.