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Voyager Pool Deck

Today we're at sea, enroute to Cabo San Lucas, our last stop in Mexico. Sometime during the night or today we'll pass by Ixtapa and Puerto Vallarta. With continuing mild weather, the Pool Grill area has been turned into a "Pizza and Pasta" extravaganza. They have placed huge (maybe 4 feet around) pizza pans around the grill area where several varieties of pizza, create-it-yourself pasta and wonderful salads are presented.

The ship is still asleep by 11am, everyone must be enjoying relaxing in their stateroom except for a few ambitious guests doing laundry. The Voyager has self-service laundry facilities on each stateroom deck. Complete with irons and all necessary detergents, the machines are getting a workout on this sea day. Many of the passengers joined the ship from Ft. Lauderdale so for them, this is day number 13. For those of us that joined in Puntarenas, it's day 6 which marks the half-way point of our voyage. The sailing from Ft. Lauderdale was the kick-off of the World Cruise for 2011. From San Francisco the Voyager is headed down-under to New Zealand and Australia, then north to Bangkok, Dubai, through the Suez Canal to Rome and ending in early June, 145 days later, in Southampton, England.

In the US, this is wildcard payoff weekend. It's unusual to have NFL football available on cruise ships. It seems that the last time we watched an NFL game was on the Disney Wonder which included an ESPN club. The first wildcard game is shown on a very large projection screen in the ship's main theatre accompanied by typical stadium fare, beers, hot dogs, nachos and popcorn. A great distraction for this day at sea.

After the games have completed we enjoy dinner in the main Dining room, Compass Rose and retire to watch a movie or two from the on-demand library. We'll be in Cabo by 7am tomorrow - and off the ship for another "included" excursion.