Happy holidays to all of you! We are at sea today and making good progress towards entry to the Amazon River. We had a short visit to the French island of St. Barths, and it smells alot like money! The harbor was packed with very large yachts and beautiful people. Chris found a wine shop that was open as most shops were closed as it was Sunday. Does anyone remember when businesses actually stopped the process of making money for one day each week?
Anyway....scored what we hope is a great bottle of Antonori and two decent bottles of Bordeaux. Angie and I also did a quick trip through Tiffany's but could not decide for sure if we would actually wear a tennis bracelet since we are both golfers! P.S. Tiffany's is really behind times as they have not created a unique bobble for us golfers!
Our next stop was much more interesting and the island of Barbados is still not totally overcome by tourist. Although, we did learn from our taxi driver that Queen Oprah has arrived and established a small kingdom...so who knows how much longer it will be until it resembles Cancun! We hired a taxi and managed to see most of the island and learn a bit about their history and how their way of government is tied closely to ours. George Washington spent 6 weeks in Barbados prior to doing some major brainstorming with Thomas Jefferson in writing some of the island's guiding principals into our Constitution. Pretty cool.....
We are having another rough day and we also all began taking our malaria meds this morning. So far, nobody has gone crazy which is one of the side effects of the meds. The big question is "How will anyone know if Chris has gone over the deep end since she pretty much teeters there daily!"
Sorry about not including any of the nine zillion photos we have taken but Ms. Smarty Big Pants (new name that Blaine made up for his wifey) can't seem to figure out how to do this on the ship computers. So will have to get Mark to help us with this task sometime soon.
Blaine's luggage was finally located at the airport in Nassau and so it is supposed to be waiting for him in Trinidad. Meanwhile, we bought him an awesome tropical shirt with Santa's on it for his Christmas Day outfit! Hope all of you are doing great and ready to have a joyful holiday with your loved ones. Ciao......Chris and Angie
Anyway....scored what we hope is a great bottle of Antonori and two decent bottles of Bordeaux. Angie and I also did a quick trip through Tiffany's but could not decide for sure if we would actually wear a tennis bracelet since we are both golfers! P.S. Tiffany's is really behind times as they have not created a unique bobble for us golfers!
Our next stop was much more interesting and the island of Barbados is still not totally overcome by tourist. Although, we did learn from our taxi driver that Queen Oprah has arrived and established a small kingdom...so who knows how much longer it will be until it resembles Cancun! We hired a taxi and managed to see most of the island and learn a bit about their history and how their way of government is tied closely to ours. George Washington spent 6 weeks in Barbados prior to doing some major brainstorming with Thomas Jefferson in writing some of the island's guiding principals into our Constitution. Pretty cool.....
We are having another rough day and we also all began taking our malaria meds this morning. So far, nobody has gone crazy which is one of the side effects of the meds. The big question is "How will anyone know if Chris has gone over the deep end since she pretty much teeters there daily!"
Sorry about not including any of the nine zillion photos we have taken but Ms. Smarty Big Pants (new name that Blaine made up for his wifey) can't seem to figure out how to do this on the ship computers. So will have to get Mark to help us with this task sometime soon.
Blaine's luggage was finally located at the airport in Nassau and so it is supposed to be waiting for him in Trinidad. Meanwhile, we bought him an awesome tropical shirt with Santa's on it for his Christmas Day outfit! Hope all of you are doing great and ready to have a joyful holiday with your loved ones. Ciao......Chris and Angie
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Despite the mishaps, so glad you are enjoying yourselves- your pictures look great and I cannot wait to hear about more of your adventures!
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