Small World Photos

Today was another sea day as we make our way to the Maldives. This is a stop that was added after they had to cancel Dubai and Doha. The weather was stormy most of the day and so we mostly stayed close to our cabin. Conrad got to the Gym in the morning and Shawn did needlepoint. We sampled the afternoon tea again but didn't do much else. After dinner we heard a loud bang outside of our room and found that the wall that divides our balcony from the front of the ship was blown

Today we woke up to monsoon type rains on a day when we were scheduled to go to a resort to have some beach and pool time. The weather called for all day rain but since we had been on the ship for the last 3 days, we decided to go anyway. We got off the ship in Colombo Sri Lanka and took a 90 minute bus ride to Wadduwa. The bus was mostly empty since so many people cancelled due to the rain. The ride was through the main part of Colombo, and then some smaller towns and eventu

We spent the last 3 days at sea sailing over to Sri Lanka. There are lots of activities on board but mostly we relaxed and caught up on things. We have additional entry documents for India, we went through India immigration on the ship, and Shawn went to soe needlepoint and Origami classes. We also started to attend the 4PM tea time in the Galileo lounge which we are enjoying. Conrad has spent lots of time on our balcony watching flying fish and other boats.

Today we are back in Thailand, and taking an early, full day excursion to the Sea where we will take inflatable canoes into the caves. As we read the details of the excursion we realized that we will each have a paddler so we won't even be paddling the canoe - nothing like living in luxury. We took a bus to the pier where we loaded onto a speedboat that would take us to the caves. There were inflatable canoes onboard as well as a group of young men who would be paddling for u