Happy Birthday to me! I am celebrating a milestone birthday this year, we don't need to talk numbers, so I wanted to splurge on something special. Actually first, my bestie Janet told me she was doing something spectacular for her birthday day we are just 20 days apart from each other. I thought what a great idea, ya know we deserve it making it this long is life! Soooooo.....We just got back from a glorious 2-1/2 week vaca cruise thru the Panama Canal. San Pedro to Fort Lauderdale. We also celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary in Cartegena, Colombia. The weather hot, & very humid so I spent more time on our balcony than ever before. My favorite past time was watching for turtles. even though they are about the size of a hubcap,  the ship is cruising about 19 knots (about 22 mph) so it is fast for trying to catch a good picture, never did get a good one. We stopped counting how many turtles we saw after 50. Some of them poor dears are being whirled out from the ship and do look a little disoriented, others look like out on a leisurely stroll, just  passing by. I am and always have been an animal fanatic, happy to say on this cruise we saw more wildlife than ever. Crocodile's, macaws, parrots,a monkey, dolphins, whales and turtles. The biggest disappointment was that we weren't allowed more time in each port to do a little more exploring,

but every cruise is definitely different.

This is one of the on board pools, when the ocean was a little rough, and you were swimming, it felt as though you were a salmon trying to swim upstream.   

My fav selfie of us with the Panama Canal behind us. Mark has long arms that make selfies possible.