Today was the day. This is what is was all about! THE. PANAMA. CANAL! and it didn’t disappoint 😁

We were up at 5:00 a.m. to snag the perfect spot. We got a spot towards the back because we were told it was a great place to see the first set of locks. We got to see us go under the Bridge of the Americas. I got a great picture of it over us with the ship in the foreground. We got to see the skyline of Panama City. The sunrise and we got to see a bunch of super famous sites in Panama before we even made it into the locks.

Going into the first set of logs was super exciting. We had a commentation from the naturalist on board through the whole process explaining what we were seeing. It took us until about 10:00 a.m. to go through the first set of 3 locks. We were in the newlt built set of locks which allows a ship to go through its own power. These locks were finished in 2016.

After we emerge from the first set of locks in the series of three we relocated to this side of the ship on deck seven (in the shade). There they had cameramen on the shore taking pictures of the guest on board. I wore my MVP shirt that you could see MVP represent!

After we clear the first three set of locks we watched a little bit longer as we made it through the man-made area and I got some beautiful pictures of the cutouts on the side where they used explosives to dig the connection from the Pacific to the lake.

We took a break for about 3 hours in our cabin and watch the “Front of the Ship Show”. Once we could see that we were cleared for entrance then went back outside to see us go through the second set of locks on the Atlantic side. The Pacific side raised us from sea level to lake level then we traversed the lake and it took about 4 hours to get from lock to lock. Then the atlantic side has locks that lowered us to sea level. All in all it was an amazing and something everybody needs to experience.

As we’re leaving the final set of blocks a gentleman came running down the deck and pointed out to us did you see the crocodile. I looked on the side and short enough it was a crocodile and I got a picture. Unfortunately he went too far forward and didn’t get a picture

Wish you were here!