Christmas day was especially exciting! We spent the day going through the Panama Canal - from the Pacific Ocean, all the way across the isthmus of Panama to the Atlantic Ocean. Panama was pretty hot, rainy, and cool, all at the same time. We drank a lot of champagne all day!! We started going through the canal around 6 am. Christmas night we had a nice dinner and professional entertainment. That was nice too. Perfect.
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| Most cruisers were up by 6 am to begin our passage through the Canal. You can see the tugs and pilot boats coming to help us through the Canal. |
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| We were up and being blown around by 6 am! Loved it. |
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| We could see Panama City over the forest as the sun rose. |
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| Entering the Miraflores Locks. |
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| We are in the first lock, watching the water fill in to raise us 28 feet. |
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| We just went through 2 locks to rise up to the Miraflores Lake. We will keep going through the canal to the next set up locks to keep going up. |
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| The locomotives (or mules) that guide ships through the canals, keeping them from bashing into the walls. |
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| Entering the Gatún Locks. |
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| The Century Bridge. |
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| We can see the digging of the new canal that will be operating in 2016. The new canal will allow the huge ships to cross through the canal. |
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| We had a lovely Christmas Dinner and a wonderful, professional Christmas show after dinner. |
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