I can relate to the 40 and wearing shorts! And to think when we were at WDW this past NYE week where we frooze when it the hit 29 for a low and upper 40's for a high that one day. Now, I'd be in shorts. I do like the name Minne-snow-ta, nothing goes with Iowa.
My husband Dave, adult son David, and girlfriend's son (7yr) will be in tuxes. We will have to do the formal picture. The women will be in black cocktail dresses.
Shopping in St. Maarten, credit cards for large purchases are fine, (I have made several jewelry pieces from their, prices were outstanding even compared to St. Thomas.) We use US cash for smaller purchases such as T-shirts, drinks or food. I think-- when we rent the wave runners by the beach that you can see from the ship, I think my husband uses cash.
All be prepared for the women walking up and down the beach wanting to sell you hats, beach bags, jewelry (not the gold but beads), beach cover-ups, and t-shirts. You will say no thank you so many times that you will sound like a broken record. There are bars with servers who come to your beach chairs at that beach. You rent the chairs, the people in charge will approach you so you don't even have to look for them.
That beach also has quite a little drop depending on the tide. It is about a 2' shelf so watch little ones close. My family loves to rent the wave runners and surf on the incoming waves. They did have a trampolene and our daughter did that one year--not so much fun because it spins.
Getting to downtown from the pier in St. Maarten is easy. You could rent a taxi but we take the water taxi, it was $5 a person for all day use. I have bought items, returned to the ship and dropped them off, then back to the beach. It is so easy to do a beach at this port of call.
Today's high, upper 20's if I remember correctly. At least the sun is out. I still need to contact the school and let them know we are pulling our daughter out for one day! I forgot that at conferences last week.
I have 2 weeks left before we wake up and we board the plane. Husband Dave surprised me, I knew he booked first class due to this trip being a celebration of college graduation, but I didn't know we were able to get 1st class out of Des Moines to the hub! He was lucky. Normally we have a regional jet, tiny but it gets us to the hubs. We fly Northwest to Detroit then down to Orlando.
Kathy
My husband Dave, adult son David, and girlfriend's son (7yr) will be in tuxes. We will have to do the formal picture. The women will be in black cocktail dresses.
Shopping in St. Maarten, credit cards for large purchases are fine, (I have made several jewelry pieces from their, prices were outstanding even compared to St. Thomas.) We use US cash for smaller purchases such as T-shirts, drinks or food. I think-- when we rent the wave runners by the beach that you can see from the ship, I think my husband uses cash.
All be prepared for the women walking up and down the beach wanting to sell you hats, beach bags, jewelry (not the gold but beads), beach cover-ups, and t-shirts. You will say no thank you so many times that you will sound like a broken record. There are bars with servers who come to your beach chairs at that beach. You rent the chairs, the people in charge will approach you so you don't even have to look for them.
That beach also has quite a little drop depending on the tide. It is about a 2' shelf so watch little ones close. My family loves to rent the wave runners and surf on the incoming waves. They did have a trampolene and our daughter did that one year--not so much fun because it spins.
Getting to downtown from the pier in St. Maarten is easy. You could rent a taxi but we take the water taxi, it was $5 a person for all day use. I have bought items, returned to the ship and dropped them off, then back to the beach. It is so easy to do a beach at this port of call.
Today's high, upper 20's if I remember correctly. At least the sun is out. I still need to contact the school and let them know we are pulling our daughter out for one day! I forgot that at conferences last week.
I have 2 weeks left before we wake up and we board the plane. Husband Dave surprised me, I knew he booked first class due to this trip being a celebration of college graduation, but I didn't know we were able to get 1st class out of Des Moines to the hub! He was lucky. Normally we have a regional jet, tiny but it gets us to the hubs. We fly Northwest to Detroit then down to Orlando.
Kathy
We'll be seeing you on that semi-sub ride I guess!
