Travel: Carnival Panorama makes a big splash in Long Beach

Burly dudes strutted in women’s clothes to win the poolside Hairy Chest Contest. Outgoing ladies did their best Tina Turner and Lady Gaga to be Lip Sync Battle champion. And children, even those not named Sam, happily ate green eggs and ham.
All this fun would sound typical for a Carnival cruise if not for one big thing: the ship itself. Carnival Panorama, the largest in the 27-vessel fleet, raised anchor Dec.14 for the first of at least two years of 7-day Mexican Riviera cruises out of Lo