A little before Easter

A week or so before Easter, Providence Point had it's 2nd annual Easter Egg hunt for the young folk. Kaylene took to the activity like a duck to water and collected quite a few eggs. She even shared a some with a little boy who didn't get too many. Way to go Kaykes!

Easter

Martha and Zach were here for Easter. I think this is a very cute picture of both kiddos!

Easter

We celebrated Zach's birthday while everyone was here. Key Lime Pie, yum!

Gail and I after the Jungle cruise.

Jungle Cruise in Costa Rica

I know it's been a while since I've posted, but life has been pretty busy and I just haven't found the time. Costa Rica was our last stop on the Panama Canal cruise. It's very hard to show just how lovely this little river trip was. You really must experience it yourself. Lots of birds and a few animals, hard to photograph. It was just very serene.

Heading towards the locks......

The whole reason for this trip, was to experience the Panama canal and traverse the locks. I remember as a young person reading about the canal and thinking "I'd like to see that". So here we are. It was worth the whole trip. It takes quite a while to go through. You get up at 5:30am to get a good spot to watch and it's sort of like a fairy tale. It's dark and the locks and the ships going through are all lit up. They have coffee and rolls for you and the whole atmosphere is party like. I don't remember the actual amount of time it took to go through, but it is hours.

Another Holland America ship going through the lock on the right, we went through the lock on the left. Fascinating experience.

These little train cars somehow keep the ship from bumping into the side of the lock. It's hard to figure out how, but they do it. These men run by saying, Welcome to Panama and waving.

Into the lock we go......

And we're out......

Gail and I drinking coffee and watching the whole process, quite an event and certainly worth the trip!