San Juan Bay

Not fancying our chances of finding tasty plants to eat ashore, we headed to the windjammer cafe for lunch and virgin coladas. Between the heat and the late nights we were feeling pretty sleepy, so we followed that with coffee and a look at some of out fellow travers’ door decorating efforts. After that we tried heading up on deck for some air and a view of the bay, but it was no substitute for sleep and we spent a good chunk of our time in Puerto Rico napping, emerging around 18:00 (about an hour before we were due to leave port).

A little before 19:00, and after a quick trip on deck or some last pictures of San Juan, Kim was kind enough to join us for dinner again. This time dinner went off less like a Fawlty Towers sketch and we were on time for the evening’s show: John Delancie’s Dover Trial play. Its a court room drama based on real court transcripts concerning the teaching of ‘intelligent design’ in science classes. Stopping back in our cabin to into our outfits for the evening’s heroes and villains party we found another gift from the organisers: cruise baseball caps.

For the party we both went with Original era Starfleet uniforms: a Science division commander for Dan, and an Operations division lieutenant or Alex. There was an another amazing array of costumes, every flavour of Starfleet uniform was joined by Ghost Busters, Storm Troopers, the Fifth Element and Ursula from Dinsney’s Little Mermaid among others. Dan said “what’s shakin’ Dix” to a passing Dixon Hill, and was pleasantly surprised to be offered their business card, which they had made as part of their cosplay. We met back up with Kim to people watch and nibble party snacks, before retreating to the quieter Q bar a few decks up for a drink and a chat.Read more