St. Martin, my favorite place on Earth!!!!
Aubrey on the tender going into St. Martin, and the ships we passed that were docked on the other side of the bay. We always had to take tenders (little ferries), into the islands, our ship went too deep to dock.
This was when we were just coming up on St. Martin. I tried to get a good shot of the whole ship but it's so big, and the tender was in the way, oh well.
The dock at St, Martin, the sign for the Reggae Cafe is just barely visible, great place, hung out there again after our tour, got a drink, had fun. This was along the beach at the side of the tender docks, we could have just hung out here all day but only spent a few hours after our tour hanging out.
For our tour, we took a bus ride across the island to the French side, (we had landed on the Dutch side), to Orient Bay Beach, the same place I came last year on our cruise. It's pretty, fun, and the weather was great.
The cactus were blooming, strange to see them in such a tropical place. Mom and Aubrey enjoying the water.
Ok, yes there is a para-sailer out there, trust me. We came to the Waikiki resort beach club this time, it was a different place last time. They're all about the same, restaurant, shops, massages, beach chairs and umbrellas, showers and a bar, can't forget the bar.
I was ready for the sun, I took my top off, and went European style. Put it on for lunch and cocktails, but sunbathing is topless all the way, hate those tan lines. The drinks were very good, they had us feeling pretty good, pretty quick.
I offer my body to the sun!!!!! Last year I did the naked thing on the nude beach, didn't make it down there this time though. Hey dude, no videos of the naked people!!!!
I love the water here, like I said, it's my favorite place, I could live here forever.
Mom is such a great model, which she did do for a while when she was younger.
Gotta love those palm trees, this one has a coconut too. Well, after lots of sun, drinks, food, they rushed us off in the buses to take us back to the Dutch side, so we could shop and relax before getting back to the ship.
This is me on our way back to the ship, I didn't want to leave.
Next up is St. Thomas.
The sign says it all.
This is Eric Clapton's personal Yacht. Name fits, don't you think, gotta love that man, don't know who that guy is on there but it's not Mr. Clapton!!!!
We get a shot of us everywhere we go. We split up for a while, mom went shopping, we went to lunch, then did some shopping before we had to get to our tour that day.
We found a nice outdoor cafe on the second story of a very pretty building. The food was good, and it was Aubrey's birthday too, so we celebrated it with a toast of water, for the time being.
I like this shot of us, it has great color and we're all so colorful.
Can you see the family resemblance, I can.
Ah, this was our tour boat. The "Wild Thing", it was wild alright, it was fast, like hold on to your lunch, fast, but alot of fun too.
It took us half way around the island to Magens Bay Beach, which was mostly just a deserted beach except for all the tourists laying on it. The ship got close to shore but not all the way so you had to swim in, or wait for their dingy to take you in and pick you up. I sunbathed topless on the boat for a while, I needed to warm up before attempting the cold water swim into shore. They had snacks and lots of rum punch, way too much rum punch actually. Aubrey drank like, alot, I could never keep up. I danced to the music they played and just drank up the sun.
I finally swam into the beach, the water wasn't bad when the sun was out but clouds kept moving in and making it cold. I picked up lots of seashells and some cool rocks too. Watch out for the coral though, a got a small piece in my toe and had to have it very carefully removed.
Mom looked great in her new bathing suit.
Right at the end of the tour it started to rain, so we all hurried back to the boat and they took us back to the tender docks. We pretty much got right back to the ship and I headed right to the hot tub. Mom and Aubrey came up after a bit and we met some very nice people, hung out with them for the rest of the night.
That's Chip, he looks like he's got a serious attitude in this picture mom took, but honest he was so laid back and nice, we had a great time with him and his friends.
Caught the sunset again, not as spectacular, no clouds, but still cool.
This is the night we were supposed to go to the special dinning room and celebrate Aubrey's birthday, but unfortunately after we took these pictures I felt very seasick and had to go lay down. The ship was really rocking and with all the alcohol, sun, lack of food, and stuff, my stomach had had it.
Mom and Aubrey stayed and enjoyed a great dinner. I slept great and a bit after dinner they came and woke me up and had a visitor for me. They had run into Chad and asked him to come and help cheer me up because I wasn't feeling well. Well, it was nice having everyone worry about me, but being awake didn't help my stomach. I felt sick all over again. Once I felt good enough we went upstairs to a second room the ship had given us for free because of the problems we had with our air conditioning and stuff, it had a balcony, which was very cool. It helped being out in the fresh air. We all hung out and talked, I ordered some room service, HUNGRY!!! Food was a good thing. After a while everyone left and I passed out in the bed, it was nice and quiet, sleep was a good thing too.
The next day was at sea again, heading for the cruise lines private island, Great Stirrup Cay.