Travels: Central American Cruise

While in Fort Lauderdale we took a Central American cruise on the Carnival Legend. You can get some really great prices on cruises if you're flexible and don't need to fly to the port. A couple of days before we sailed they were selling inside (no view) rooms on our cruise for $299! That's for an 8 day cruise with all of your food and entertainment included. We had booked earlier and got a balcony room. The only trouble with a balcony room is that it's hard to consider an inside (less expensive) room for future cruises!

Our cruise visited the ports of Colon, Panama, Puerto Limon, Costa Rica and Belize City, Belize. We usually don't take shore excursions on cruises but this time we did one in each port. In Panama we took a ferry boat ride through part of the Panama Canal. In Costa Rica we visited a banana plantation. And in Belize we visited the Belize City zoo. On board we spent a lot of time sitting on our balcony reading and watching the ocean. We also attended several triva contests and won 2 of them. As a prize we received lovely plastic award trophies which we left in our room with a note asking that they be reused so they wouldn't end up in the land fill!

We really like going on cruises. If done right they are quite affordable vacations. This year we went on 3 cruises. We have another one book for the end of February out of LA (we'll be in the area then) visiting Mexico. And yes, we did book a balcony room.

	The Carnival Legend.
	Entering the Miraflores locks on the Panama Canal. The second ferry boat of our tour group is following us in.
	Banana plantation in Costa Rica. After the tour we knew more about bananas than we ever thought there was to know!
	Toucan at the Belize City zoo, one of the many fascinating animals they have in this zoo.
	You can eat all you want on a cruise. Some of us eat all that we can! The caption of this picture is "time to eat again!"