Out Table Friends on the Grandeur of the Sea March 3, 2015 Cruise from Baltimore, MD

Jennifer and Rene

Mary

Glenn and Judy

Dan and Marilyn

Jay and Julie

Dennis and Mary

Our Table except for Dennis

Our Panama Canal Cruise April 18 - May 3, 2014

Lots of Photos of our cruise:

Julie on the Norwegian Pride in the port at Cartagena, Columbia

Jay

Container Ship Loading

Entering the First Lock on the Panama Canal from the Gulf of Mexico. We are in the right hand lock.

Turntable used to turn the electric locomotives that pull us through the locks

A closeup of the locomotive

A shot of one of the locomotives pulling the merchant ship through a lock

A view of the first lock we have just cleared

Looking back at a Merchant ship that will follow us in the left hand lock

Lock gates starting to close behind us

Our Friend Stan Oaks on the Aft Deck 

Looking back after transiting the three locks.  Later we will transit the three locks that take us back down to sea level to enter the Pacific Ocean.

Below the passenger Decks of the Pearl.

Beef being cooked for almost 4,000 people

Food Storage

Grinding all the ingredients for meat loaf at once.

Cooking meat in large ovens.

More bulk Preparation

All bread and rolls are made on the ship.

One of several types of trash compactors

A grinder for glass

Pressing thousands of pieces of clothing of crew and guests

Huge Washing Machine

Huge Dryer

This machines presses sheets

Sheet pressing machines continued

The other end of the pressing machine

Towel pressing and folding machine

Towels coming out all pressed and folded

Big Screen in the Center of deck 7

Another view of deck 7 and the stairways to deck 8 which was our cabin's deck

Houses and mansions are built on any available hill!

Typical small harbor

Typical coast line

An unusual tree in San Diego

Theater Casa del Prado

Photo inside the Casa del Prado of the San Diego Botanical Foundation. My favorite photo of the trip.

A plaster copy of a stature in the Casa del Balboa building

Another plaster copy of a column in the Casa del Balboa

The San Diego Zoo

Julie next to a fountain in the zoo

Zoo Animals Follow

The entrance to the main dining room on the Pearl

Sunset and moon on the Pacific Ocean

One of the nightly towel animals created by our room steward

Another photo in the main dining room

And yet another

One of dozens of paintings in the dining room.  The room is based on the Summer Palace of the Russian Czar and his family.  The painting is based on a photo of his three children.

Our last meal in the Summer Palace (Dave and Julie seen from the back)