Robyn is released from her isolation today. We got food, then exercised for quite a while, burning off all the energy pent up from her 48 hour confinement. We are still exercising almost all days, it seems to be helping on not gaining weight.
I finished the book. They did eventually decide to dam the big river, and thereby flood half of the isthmus into a huge lake. Then they're building locks to get up to the lake and back down on the other side. They never did finish the difficult area, it continues to have small slides, and needs to be dredged regularly to this day. However, the canal is basically working exactly as designed 100 years later. We also saw the 60 minute movie summary of the book (by same author), which was showing on the ship's cinema to give everyone background. It had most of the technical information, but not all of the political intrigue.
We did a Champagne and sparkling wine tasting event. We were sat at a table with a couple of 21-ish women (Brittany and Morgan, I think) from Arizona university. They are students in a tourism program, and we learned that they are taking the cruise as part of their studies. There are about 20 people on the cruise from their course, 16 of whom are women.
At dinner today, it appears that our James Bond isn't quite as suave with the women as his namesake is, as he's trying to get advice from Tara for how to successfully hit on one (or more, for all I know) of the girls in the tourism class. Not too surprising, as both Brittany and Morgan were fairly hot, and I assume most of their classmates were, too.
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