🎶 Panama! 🎶  I can't get that song out of my head.  You know, the song by Van Halen? Even though it has nothing to do with the Panama Canal.   I thought about titling this "The cruise that almost wasn't".  Let me explain.   My plan was to fly in the day before and stay on the Queen Mary.  I was almost as excited about the Queen Mary (now a hotel in Long Beach, CA) as I was about the Panama Canal.  Good ole mother nature had a surprise for me. Snow! Lots of it. At 5a