Thanks so very much for all your concern about and good wishes for Gary's mom. We appreciate it more than you can know. This is one very special community, and we are honored to be a part of it. She is heading home today, so she is over the worst of it.

The ballet of Mariner and Voyager was so spectacular last night! The two ships had coordinated the music, but because we were a short distance apart, it was like hearing it with a seven second delay. It was a first class sound and light show.

Marcie and Joanna, we sent you guys a message on the bottle. Now you'll have to find it when you get onboard Mariner. Marge has been losing at bingo so she laughed when I told her you had seen her win.

The canopy tour was every bit as much fun for us as two years ago. Seven of us went along on the trip. Along the way, we saw about 30 crocodiles lying in and around a sandbank in the river and lots of birds. We even saw a scarlet macaw in full flight on the way out to Chiclet's and another one on the way back. There is little risk any of us will introduce harnesses as part of our personal dress style. Getting one of those things strapped on your body will certainly get your attention.

We were hooked up to the first zip line and started whooping it up. The howler monkeys started protesting at us. I think we are now known as the "howler humans". Thankfully I wore my Margaritaville shirt and went first. We could all remember that there were 11 zip lines between us and Margaritas. Suffice it to say we as a group introduced a few new techniques for zipping down those cables. After laughing so hard I cried when telling people about it, it was decided "what happens on the zip lines, stays on the zip lines".

After our zip line adventure, we all trickled in at the pool bar for a late lunch. Burgers, chicken, cold sandwiches and the biggest bowl of communal steak fries I have seen in some time were devoured.

A needed shower ensued and Gary ran off to get some genuine Costa Rican coffee. After that, we headed to the laundry room and up to the hot tubs to see the sun set during sailaway. Dinner was turkey in Compass Rose and then some went to the "lullaby of broadway" show. Others of us trooped up to await the Mariner meeting.

We invited our next door neighbors to breakfast this morning after asking us what our door sign meant. They are second-time Radisson cruisers. They were trying to figure out how we are traveling in a group that we sort of know with a travel agent who has a national following. You had to be there, but it sounded like an Abbott & Costello routine.

We celebrated lunch with long-time friends of ours (he turned 75 today) and now I'm getting my mind around trivia in another 45 minutes. Very lazy day today, indeed. I should head to the gym & get 20 minutes in on the bike ... but that is a low probability event.

Scaraoke night is tonight. I've got to get ready. The Scarlett dress is a must do, I think, for this event.

Cheers, Anne