Saturday, January 4, 2025

Santo Tomas de Castilla, Guatemala

            Thursday, 7 Dec 2023 – We docked at Santo Tomas at 8:00 AM.  Guatemala is a central American country south of Mexico.  It is home to volcanoes, rainforests and ancient Mayan cities.  Santo Tomas is a port city in the Izabal Department, Guatemala, and lies at Amatique Bay off the Gulf of Honduras and is administratively a part of Puerto Barrios.  The seaport of the city was built in 1976, after an earthquake had severely damaged the port of Puerto Barrios.   Today it is among the busiest in Central America and currently expanding.  In 2006, a cruise ship terminal was completed and Santos Tomas started receiving cruise ships, which have been a tremendous boost for the Guatemalan tourism industry.

We enjoyed our usual breakfast in the Terrace Café.  We saw Keith and Carol there for the first time since the Captain’s Cocktail Celebration.  Sally’s cold had gotten a lot worse, and she had developed a fever.  Jesse gave her medication to bring down her fever and she slept most of the day.  It was raining hard all afternoon, so Jesse decided not to go ashore.  He ordered soup and tea with honey from room service that afternoon, hoping that might help Sally to feel better.  Later, he ordered dinner from room service.   Sally didn’t have much of an appetite, but she ate a little.

Jesse continued watching TV and work working on his laptop while Sally was napping.  Again, we skipped dancing for the night!

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