Costa Maya, Mexico

Today we had a full day excursion to the Kohunlich Mayan ruins. It took over 2 hours in a bus down some rather poorly maintained roads to get there, and over 2 hours to get back again, but it was worth it.  The more popular Mayan sites no longer allow tourists to walk on the ruins, but Kohunlich is one of the less popular sites, so we were allowed to walk around as we pleased.  I climbed 3 of the buildings but it was hard going. Each individual step is really high - especially for a short person like me.  Fascinating facts learned: the Mayans used to build buildings over the top of other buildings.  Some of these buildings are nested 7 layers deep.

Back on the ship just in time to set sail. Karl Urban came aboard here.  Quite a few of the celebrities had trouble making it on board due to the bad weather on the East coast at the start of the trip.  Bob Picardo and Ethan Philips had their flights out of New York cancelled and had to take a train to Washington to fly from there - literally arriving about an hour before we sailed.  Jonathan Frakes also missed the boat and had to join us in the Honduras. We were supposed to have a photo session with Karl in the evening but he got food poisoning from something he ate in Mexico, so it was postponed..
There was still, as usual, a packed night of entertainment. We saw "the liar's club" - a sort of "call my bluff" type quiz followed by "In Search of Lost Time".  This was Brent Spiner's show.  I had no idea Data could sing like that!  He must have been on Broadway at some point in his career.