Tuesday, March 16th
We arrived in Curacao this morning. The day was warm with a high of around 98 and 91% humidity. We were off on our tour, which took us around the downtown area and business area. Our first stop was the Curacao Museum, which had the engine from the first KLM that flew to Curacao in the 1930’s. The museum is an old residence and has period furniture from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. The tour continued to the Hato Caves, with a view of some flamingos in the local lake on the way. At the caves we climbed up many stairs to get to the entrance and then into the caves. Very interesting, however, not cool inside like in the states. Our next stop was at Choboloblo where the original Curacao liqueur is distilled with a brief stop for tastings of three of the liqueurs. Our tour guide, WaWa, was great. She was quite knowledgeable and provided lots of humor throughout our time together. Then onto to downtown for a walk across the pontoon bridge, Queen Emma, which crosses the canal and has been in operation since the late 1800’s. When ships need to transit the canal a ferry is in service to carry people across. We checked out the local shops and made a stop, for Rick, at the local police station. Met the chief and several other officers. The Chief, RS Simmons, was gracious and obtained one of their police patches for me from another officer. We then boarded the ferry and headed back to the ship to relax and cool off before dinner and another show with a singer, Sonia Selbie, originally from England and now resides in Nashville.
We arrived in Curacao this morning. The day was warm with a high of around 98 and 91% humidity. We were off on our tour, which took us around the downtown area and business area. Our first stop was the Curacao Museum, which had the engine from the first KLM that flew to Curacao in the 1930’s. The museum is an old residence and has period furniture from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. The tour continued to the Hato Caves, with a view of some flamingos in the local lake on the way. At the caves we climbed up many stairs to get to the entrance and then into the caves. Very interesting, however, not cool inside like in the states. Our next stop was at Choboloblo where the original Curacao liqueur is distilled with a brief stop for tastings of three of the liqueurs. Our tour guide, WaWa, was great. She was quite knowledgeable and provided lots of humor throughout our time together. Then onto to downtown for a walk across the pontoon bridge, Queen Emma, which crosses the canal and has been in operation since the late 1800’s. When ships need to transit the canal a ferry is in service to carry people across. We checked out the local shops and made a stop, for Rick, at the local police station. Met the chief and several other officers. The Chief, RS Simmons, was gracious and obtained one of their police patches for me from another officer. We then boarded the ferry and headed back to the ship to relax and cool off before dinner and another show with a singer, Sonia Selbie, originally from England and now resides in Nashville.
Tomorrow is a sea day and the ship is having something special for St Patrick’s Day. We will also be attending a cocktail party with the new Captain, who arrived yesterday. Then we will have our second formal dinner night.
Monday, March 15th
We arrived in Aruba! It was to come back to the one place on this cruise that we have been to before. We elected not to take any tours, so just walked around the downtown area looking at some of the shops and exploring part of the local area away from the main tourist places. Of course, Aruba was very hot (82-84 degrees with humidity at 92) as it is so close to equator. We, especially Chris, are not used to this kind of heat. Sure felt good to get back to the ship and cool off in the pool and relax reading. We found some local beverages to bring back and enjoy on our deck for the sail away! At dinner, we all shared stories of our day. After dinner, the show we went to was a pianist, Ryan Ahern from Las Vegas who grew up idolizing Liberace. He was very good and we really enjoyed his performance.
We arrived in Aruba! It was to come back to the one place on this cruise that we have been to before. We elected not to take any tours, so just walked around the downtown area looking at some of the shops and exploring part of the local area away from the main tourist places. Of course, Aruba was very hot (82-84 degrees with humidity at 92) as it is so close to equator. We, especially Chris, are not used to this kind of heat. Sure felt good to get back to the ship and cool off in the pool and relax reading. We found some local beverages to bring back and enjoy on our deck for the sail away! At dinner, we all shared stories of our day. After dinner, the show we went to was a pianist, Ryan Ahern from Las Vegas who grew up idolizing Liberace. He was very good and we really enjoyed his performance.
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