It wasn't quite the experience that I had planned, though. We had avoided cruises for several reasons, but especially because of the risk of infections. And an infection swept through the ship just before and after the eclipse.  It was probably an E coli infection from contaminated buffet food at the resort hotel where the group stayed before boarding the ship, followed by further spread between the passengers.

I spent about three days sick in bed, getting out on deck to see the phase of totality, but not trying to get a lot of pictures. (Dale had taken all the eclipse photos I really needed anyway.) 

Recovery has been slow, but I'm out in our garden today, glad to see many flowers coming up and eager to get my strength and endurance back to normal.