Choose Your Own Adventure

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all enjoyed yourselves and have now gotten 2007 off to a great start. We rang in the New Year (literally) with a big party in the lounge onboard. The oldest crew member rang the ship's bell eight times (the number of times the bell used to be rung during a standard 4-hour watch) to ring out the old year and the youngest crew member, after waiting for the 10-second countdown, rang in the new year eight times. We were in bed shortly after midnight, but I'm glad that Remko was able to be there because he had to wake up at 3:30 the next morning to go on watch. I apologize that I didn't take any photos of the festivities--everyone else had a camera and I haven't gotten their cameras to download just yet. I will post a couple photos of the great sunset last night.





Jared asked what the ship looks like on the inside, and after permission from the Hotel Manager, I'm going to request audience participation. I used to read those Choose Your Own Adventure books where you would come to a cliff and had to decide if you would go up or go around and then read on following your choice. I've decided to do something similar here. I'm going to give you a choice of three different places to go and you can vote by posting a comment. I'll then show photos of the place that gets the most votes and tell a little bit more about it. I'll post my photos every other day, starting on Thursday.

Today we are in Playa del Coco, a small city near a big river where you can go white water rafting or the mountains where you can go on 11 different zip lines (I hope to go on both tours shortly....). It's been a beautiful, sunny day and you might be tired. Tonight you have three choices:

A) It's Ladies Night in the Signature Shop onboard. Free chocolate and champagne and 25% off diamond jewelry.

B) Name that Tune in The Lounge with entertainer Brad Stevens

C) Rent a movie from the library to watch in your cabin—there's over 600 to choose from.

Vote for what you'd prefer to do (or what you want to see) and I post photos and let you know what happened when I went to take the pictures. Roving reporter Leah Anderson signing off. :)