Okay…. We have been bad. We have been enjoying our cruise and have not gotten to posting much on the blog up until now. Bad cruisers! Bad!
Well, today we are going to remedy that to some extent.
The weather has been really pretty amazing (no, not snowing like it was in Seattle when we left). It has been in the high seventies or low eighties since we landed in Miami. We had a very short rain shower today, but it was the kind that actually felt good since it had been so warm. Sorry, if we seem to be rubbing it in, but when you can sit by the pool and lounge in the sun for most of the afternoon, it’s a good vacation.
The town of Samana (we were there on Sunday) is a fairly undeveloped port; and for an undeveloped port, things were very hectic. The traffic was insane – it seems that dodging motorcycles and taxis as you walk across the street could be an Olympic-class event. We walked through town in the morning and ended up spending the afternoon up on the deck by the pool.
In Tortola we had an excursion that took us on a short scenic trip across the island and ended up on a beach where we rented a couple of chairs to lounge in for the early afternoon. The beach was one of the more renowned (in other words “crowded”) beaches, but was very beautiful. After making it back to the ship, we somehow ended up back by the pool for a few more hours of lounging.
Antigua was very a very busy port. There were 4 large ships docked by 8:00 AM. This stop was a very “traditional” stop where the port opened up to a large shopping district that had many small jewelry or t-shirt shops that all sold the same thing for roughly the same price. It becomes impossible to remember which shop you found that cool little magnet in because by the third one you have visited, they all have blended together into one. The really distinguishing factor of Antigua was that it was sunny and warm – oh wait… Anyway, we decided to close out the day by doing something a bit different from the past couple of days. We went up to the pool deck and lounged out in the sun for a couple of hours.
Anyway, tonight after dinner we walked down to the casino where we played some penny slots. Lori was at a game called “It’s a Blast” where the theme seems to be something about sheep and explosives. Anyway, on $20 Lori ended up playing somewhere closed to two full hours! I am sure that she will be blowing up sheep in her sleep, but we had fun anyway.
Tomorrow’s port is Barbados and we have a snorkeling trip planned to go swim with some green turtles after doing a bit of cruising around town. Tomorrow is supposed to be somewhere around 81 degrees.
Oh… and down in the casino there is a betting line that is posted that has it a 2-to-1 favorite that we will ended up some place lounging in the sun. My advice is to not bet against.
