More Barbarous

These photos below are some of the things we saw. The first one is our view on arrival.
Then the next one is of the front of a big plantation.

Then a resident goat, which they have many!

Then the next was a chattel house. They are almost all gone.

Then is the rocks that look like mushrooms. Now if I could just remember how to use the Blogger, we would do this better.

We are off to dinner at the crown grill tonight, to celebrate John and Carol's anniversary.

Later

Barbarous

We have spent a windy beautiful day in Barbarous, this is a beautiful island, and we saw parts of it that we has not seen before.

We took the tour to the other side of the island, called the Scotland District known as the Highlands. With a locally famous photographer Ronnie Carrington. We had a great driver and with the roads we went over I'm glad. We were defiantly off the Beaton path. We visited the the quaint fishing village of Bathsheba, and Bathsheba beach where wind waves and time have managed to sculpt giant mushroom shaped rocks. I think I got some good photos, and I will try to post them in a minute.

I just bought some high speed minutes here at the port and if I had been thinking I would have logged in on the computer, and not the iPad, but I wasn't thinking😜. So I will see if I can use that. Not sure.

Feb 19 2014

Today it was Antiqua, and it was a good day.  We got up early and had breakfast thin it was off to the tour to the Nelson Dock yards.  The Photo above is of the Dock Yards.  Today they have lots of sailboat races there, and there are some HUGE sailboats.  It was an interesting place and a interesting drive in the little bus.  The ride wasn't much to see, lots of very poor areas, but the people on the bus, were almost all from Austral and they were a real kick!

We got back to the town early and found some postcards and got caught in the rain, but had fun then it was sail away before we knew it.  John and Carol joined us on the balcony to say good-by to Antiqua, and Ed and I went up to the Crab Shack for dinner talk about good!  But the internet is giving me fits so that will be another day.

Tomorrow Barbados and a Photo tour,,, himmm

St. Thomas

Feb 18, 2014  St. Thomas 

We arrived St. Thomas, this morning about 7 AM, it was a beautiful sail in, LOTS of sailboats in the harbor.  We docked at Crown Bay, this was a fist for Ed and I.  The Celebrity Reflection, and the Carnival Inspiration were docked at Havens Gate so there was no room for us.  That was ok as we had a nice breakfast and then headed out to do some shopping.  

We took one of the little buses, to town and started walking.  We didn’t shop very long, as having been here so many times in the past, there wasn’t much to buy, if you didn’t want to buy alcohol  or jewelry!  And I was keeping Ed out if Imperial Jewelers!  We will be back next January!  Any way we came back to the ship about one and we have now had room service on our balcony.  Now Ed is playing with his new toy, he bought the Go Pro.  He has been looking at it for some time, and the price was right here, and they through in a nice 36 GB card to go with it.  So now when we get home we can boar everyone with videos.

The last couple of sea days have been very relaxing, except for the part of our personal trainer Monica!  That was NOT relaxing, but good for us, we will be working with her for the rest of the cruise.  We had a grand time at formal night with John and Carol.  Participated in the Champagne waterfall and Lobster dinner.  Then last night Ed wanted to see the new Jack Reacher movie, at MUTS,,, Movies Under The Stars.  I managed to stay through two bags of popcorn, then it got TOOOOOO intense for me and I went back to the room.

So tomorrow we will be in Antiqua and going to the Nelson Stockyards, tour, this was NOT high on my list, but Ed didn’t want to do the Catamaran that we had booked so we will do this and some shopping.  Not sure what shopping there is in Antigua, but we will find something to do I’m sure.

Later

First Day at Sea

Feb 16 2014   Day #2

Today is the first day at sea and it is a beautiful day indeed, 75 degrees and calm seas.  We both awoke about seven and dressed for breakfast up at Sabatini's one of the real treat of having a suite. It was wonderful as usual, starting with Mimosa's, and then Eggs Benedict, yum.  We can't do that for 48 more days or we'll be a big as a house when we get back.  So with that in mind, we went and scheduled our personal trainer, she is a very attractive girl from Slovakia, so you know Ed will go at least this once and probably more. :)

We had a wonderful dinner last night at Sabatini's with John and Carol, they seemed to really enjoy it, and once again great conversation, went with dinner.  After dinner, we were all tired so we said our goodbye's about 10 and retired for the evening.

While reading the Patter at breakfast we realized that it is formal night tonight! Boy they don't give you a couple of days to get used to it all before you have to dress up!  Oh well it will be fun,,,,  Ed made reservations for dinner for the four of us, this is John and Carols first Princess cruise, so we will watch the champagne waterfall, and have a glass of free champagne.

So we will try to let y'all know about the evening later if I can stay awake, if not we will see you tomorrow.