Cruisin' with the Nephews, Part II

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Around the Ship
	Each day's menus in the dining room offered appetizers, salads and soups, entrees and desserts--the desserts being beautifully presented and called out for having its photo taken.
We disembarked in Progresso, Mexico. We took a tour on top of a double-decker bus before continuing to Merida.
	Merida is a very large city that is also quite old. Its cathedral dates back hundreds of years. When we visited, a saints day celebration was in progress. The city has extremely rich and extremely poor people. Some of the homes are gorgeous mansions.
Belize City, Belize, is beautifully set around the seaport. The water is so blue! The ships are not able to come into port, but passengers are "tendered" into town. There we met Veronica, the tour guide Jim and the boys used when they visited before.
	Each cruise, the food staff prepares a Chocoholic Buffet--more chocolate than can be easily imagined. There are wonderful chocolate sculptures (and a few ice sculptures, too) as well as uncountable forms of cakes, candies, petit fours, etc.
Every night the ship's stewards created the cutest animals from towels and washcloths.