Hello!

I've finally managed to log onto LCT! The Internet is very slow especially if one usually connects with broadband. I purchased the Jumbo Internet package so I can "load and post" to my heart's content - but patience is not one of my virtues!

As all past Navigator passengers well know, this is a lovely, intimate ship. Smaller than the Voyager and Mariner but large enough to give you most of the activities that you can't find on the really small ships.

We have 320 passengers on this cruise - a bit fewer than expected. Some had quite a time getting to the port on time. We heard some grueling travel stores this morning around the pool.

Our first surprise of the cruise was the cancellation of Grand Cayman as one of our ports of call. Belize will be visited instead and they are offering some great shore excursions there. I am a bit sorry not to visit Georgetown, especially since I was going to deliver a "care package" for a friend to someone in Grand Cayman. I'll just have to carry it home again and find another way to get it there.

Our first and only formal night is this evening. It will be fun to be elegantly dressed for Thanksgiving. The menu includes the traditional offerings of Turkey etc. but there are also some of the usual formal night entrees as well.

Joe and Heather Raad are our Cruise Directors. I haven't met them yet, but recall many nice remarks from other LCT members about them. Captain Alfredo Romeo is our master and I look forward to meeting him as well.

We are still exploring the ship but find everything to be well maintained, and ship shape. The weather is beautiful and life is grand! What more can I say?

PS: Wes.... there seems to be plenty of Champagne and Caviar - we'll leave some for you!