Panama Cruise 2025, Day 15 & 16 , Nov 11 & 12 Sea Days

Today was Remembrance Day and the Cruise Director arranged a ceremony in the theatre. It started at 10:30 am and it began with a short film with images of WWII and live action of peace keeping efforts around the world by Canadian Armed Forces. It was actually a nice tribute to our military. They had four ships officers who each did a reading, including In Flanders Field as well as two minutes of silence and Reveille. It was a very well attended ceremony and very well done.

After the ceremony we went a took part in a game show in one of the lounges and in the afternoon we went to the last enrichment show about history and travelling in time.  The one thing that I really like about Princess Cruises is that they are very big on the enrichment talks. We found all the speakers to be well informed and very interesting. 

The show tonight was Jared Freiburg & the Vagabonds, they were a trio who specialized in Rock a Billie and piano music. Jared actually stared as Jerry Lee Lewis in the Million Dollar Quartet Musical. He could definitely play the piano, I am sure he had to ice his hands after his performance.

Our last day at sea started off a little bit rocky, so I took a sea sick pill and was fine for the rest of the day. It got so rocky that they closed off the outside Promenade deck, the waves crash up and the deck gets slippery.

The weather improved for the afternoon so we took in the last movie under the stars and our last chance at suntanning. Tonight was our last formal night so it was Surf & Turf and we took a picture all dressed up with our dinner mates. 

Salmon Carpaccio, Crab Salad and Shrimp Appetizer

Steak & Lobster and Double Stuffed Potato

We finished up our evening with a performance from a comedian called Gary Delena, he was absolutely hilarious.  All the comedians on board were fantastic, I am glad that we got to see more of them on this cruise.

 We docked in Ft Lauderdale on time and we were able to get off of the ship first thing because we kept our luggage and walked off with it so we got off by 8 am and we didn't have to wait for our bags. We got right through customs, caught and Uber and made it to the airport in time to check in and get to our flight two hours early. We flew United and lucky for us they were on time and they got us to Colorado only a few minutes late. The United airlines app is very good it gave us directions to hour next gate and told us how much time we had to get there, even told us that they were holding the plane for us because we had landed late. We got into Vancouver right on time. caught the sky train and took it all the way to Coquitlam Town Centre where our friend Carole and Don were waiting to take us home to Maple Ridge. We took a day in Vancouver to catch up on our sleep from our travel day, go to Costco and then on Saturday we headed home to Creston.  All in all it was an amazing trip and I would recommend taking this cruise to anyone who asks. Now were are in the process of booking our next cruise from Buenos Aries to England and then England to Norway for 36 days.