South America Cruise Dec 2014 Day 10 Day Out From Lima

        We are on our last day of the transit from Costa Rica to Lima where we will be off ship for 3 days. We did manage to sleep in this morning – well until 8 anyway. We spent the day as a usual sea day on this trip. I think that we have been taking it easy for days! By the time we were up and had breakfast (no cronut today!) it was time for the enrichment lecture which we seem to look forward to every day. Today it was on the use of DNA analysis in anthropology. It was called the life and death of the Pharoes. He traced the search for the identity of some of the unknown mummies. Another interesting lecture that made the hour go quite quickly. After that there was a session with the singers and dancers and their journey to become part of the cast. This troupe is on a 3 term contract. 5 months on one sip, a month off and then another 5 months on another ship. It was very interesting to hear their backgrounds. Most have always wanted to be dancers.

        We decided on a walk around the deck – about 30 minutes worth. Surprising although we are not that far south of the equator, the temperature is getting cooler already. That may be a function of the cold current in the area. A British pub lunch followed – fish and chips, etc. Was a good way to have a different lunch. We are still trying to avoid the buffet as much as possible. Then it was packing for the 3 days ashore tomorrow! We are down to backpacks only which was our original goal. We head out tomorrow at around 7, as soon as we arrive in Lima. By then it was time for the wine tasting session. They really moved it along and we were out of there in about 30 minutes. It seemed that they just went through the motions but there many people around us who were talking all through the presentation. That probably contributed to the short presentation.

          We have signed up for the egg drop contest. You need to drop a raw egg from the 7^th deck to the 5^th deck. If it makes it then you may win something. We have been collecting balloons and other materials for the contest but we still don't know when it will be. We get the egg just before the drop. We have seen it done before and did it once on our way from China to Alaska. We will use a rain poncho, balloons a coffee cup and a paper bag! That is the engineering part of the contest.

      We have started to take out altitude adjustment medication. We are trying to prevent the 'sickness'

Packed!

that some people experience. It means that we must refrain from alcohol! The other thing is that we need to drink plenty of water . We know a few people going on this trip who may have a hard time of keeping that requirement!

    Tonight was country western night but we did not hurry dinner to get to it. There are more line dancers on this cruise than many of the past cruises e have been on. Every session is packed with people in the aisles and along the back of the room. Of course they always do the same dances!

      The Canadian comic Scott Harris also did a second show. Although we need to be up early tomorrow, we did attend. He talked about all the things we did as kids. Stuff like playing outside, toys we had, etc. A really good show. I will not be taking my computer with me tomorrow so it will be a few days before the next post. We hope that the weather is good for taking pictures although thunderstorms are predicted for the area. Needless I plan on taking plenty of photos anyway.