This morning - after eating at Topsider’s, we went to a presentation on crossing the Panama Canal by Captain Ken Puckett, 16 year Senior Pilot and Port Captain on the panama canal. He has transited the Panama Canal almost 2,000 times. We learned that the Disney Magic would be paying the most tolls any ship has ever paid to cross the canal - almost $340,000 - the highest fees paid previously was also by the Disney Magic in May, when it crossed on the westbound repo. The lowest toll that was ever paid was 36 cents, paid by a man who swam through the canal. The tolls have gotten really high because American tax payers no longer pay for the canal. Our ship is also one of the largest that can travel through - we’ll have about 2 feet of clearance on each side.
Next, Grant and I went to do the “Art of the Theme” ship tour. This was cool because it showed us a lot of those little hidden details that were interspersed throughout the ship areas. I love knowing those little details...
After that, it was time to get ready for dinner. Dinner tonight was the Island dinner in the Parrot Cay. After dinner, we went to see the show - which was Ron Lucas, the ventriloquist we had seen the night before. I was very disappointed, because over half of his show was a repeat of the night before. Seriously? No new material?
We went to bed early because we had to get up early for our Acapulco city tour.
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