Today we slipped through the Panama Canal leaving the Pacific behind. We entered the first lock at 6:45 and a representative of the Port Authority narrated most of the trip. The ship enters a lock, gravity pulls water from a man made lake, the lock fills up a gate opens and the ship moves to the next step. It is a slow process, but the canal allows people and millions of dollars of product move from east to west and west to east in a economical method. The canal in heavily industrial on one side and wooded and full of wild life on the other. We watched from the deck, and also from our stateroom. It took nearly six hours to move the ship and suddenly we were out to sea. Think how this engineering feat changed the world. Tomorrow Columbia.