Canal Day

Yesterday, 10/4/2012, the Infinity went through the Panama Canal on its way from Seattle to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  I was in rehearsal all day, so I didn't get a chance to actually go outside and see the (9 hour) process of navigating the locks and the lakes, but I do have a cool pic from a webcam as we passed through:

Celebrity Infinity in the Panama Canal - October 4, 2012

We'll pass through the Canal 4 or 5 more times before I leave, so I'll definitely find time to watch some of it... it's pretty amazing.  There's approximately 50 centimeters of clearance on each side of this ship as it passes through... that's not a lot of room.  As I was eating lunch that day down in the mess on Deck 1 all you could see out the porthole window was a stone wall... if there wasn't glass in the window you could reach out and touch it.  Insane. Some colleagues and I were comparing it to pulling into the garage... for a couple of hours at a time.

Okay that's all for the moment.  I have a 9am rehearsal for a guest talent show tomorrow.  AND it's one hour forward [AGAIN] tonight as we continue our eastward journey.  Ouch. 

Sweet dreams.
D