We took lots of photos through the locks today. I'll probably get around to linking to them here. The Panamanians are are building a new set of locks to the North, to handle even bigger ships. I'm not sure when they are supposed to be finished, but Robyn assumes it is the 100th anniversary, in 2014.
After the locks, we had a 2 hour stop at Cristobal Pier (spelling probably incorrect). We didn't actually get to go off the pier area, but we still managed to do a bit of shopping for tacky tourist souvenirs. I managed to get what I planned to bring back from Panama. We also saw a bunch of aboriginals wearing beads and tattoos, and almost nothing else. They were selling hand-made handicrafts. Robyn really liked a basket-weave cheetah mask, and I got a couple of necklaces. The young man who sold us the mask said it was made by his mother (who was also there), so we got a picture of him, and his mother with the mask.
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