Our two week land and sea adventure! W/ LOTS OF PICS!!!(UPDATED 6/17 pg.16 post 227)

[Girldreamer02]

Evening attire: formal

Drink of the day: Golden Start (alcoholic )

Coco ball (non alcoholic)

Today we woke up around 9:45 and I finally got up and got ready. We had lunch at the top siders buffet, which was Italian themed on this day. After lunch we decided to take a walk around deck nine before heading to the dvc presentation. (We had gone to the dvc presentation at ssr while in Disney, but remember the lady told us to check out this presentation because at sea incentives are different and also we were still very much on the fence at this point. ) So we sat through the presentation and found out the incentives and also won a dvc blanket for answering a question correctly. Gotta love free stuff!


After filling our minds with more to digest we headed for the promenade lounge where they were having everyone make their own little scrapbook. It wasn’t a big ordeal, but it was fun since I like that type of thing and matt didn’t mind sitting with me while I tied mine together and such. I still have yet to throw some pictures in mine, but its pretty cute!

I’d like to take a moment to point out the fact that I still was feeling sea sick on this day and my sinus’s were acting up horribly, but dh was trying to keep us busy so I wouldn’t be sitting still thinking about it in the room, which did seem to work for quite some time until my cold caught up to me (yep it was a full blown cold by day two) and sucked the life out of me.

We headed to bingo after I made my scrapbook, but since we were early there was a triva game going on so we sat and watched that, which I have to say was pretty entertaining! There are always a million things going on, which is why I love cruising! And if you don’t want to do any of those things you can go swimming or lay in the sun!

When it was time for bingo dh went up and got us the electronic boards since they fill in for you. Trust me…its so much easier! Esepcially for me since I don’t really like to pay super close attention to those little cards you have to poke. I have a hard time keeping up. Is it just me? Sometimes they go way to fast! The lady that sat behind us won twice! Lucky duck! If you haven’t played bingo on a Disney cruise…seriously you don’t know what your missing out on. The staff is hilarious and it’s a really great time! After bingo we headed back to the room to drop off the stuff we had collected throughout the morning/afternoon.

I decided that I was worn out and took a nap. I really wanted to get up and go to the golden mickeys at 6:15, but I think I slept till about six and by the time I got up and got ready there was no way we were going to make it down in time. It takes me forever to get up and get around, but they were playing them on a certain channel on the tv so we decided to watch the golden mickeys from the room. I know its not the same, but we saw the golden mickeys in july on our honeymoon cruise so I was fairly confident that I could live with only seeing them on tv.

After we were finished watching the Golden Mickeys it was time to get ready for formal night! I was super excited because if I have an excuse to dress up I love to do so! Not to mention we didn’t bring clothes for dress up night in july and I really regretted it! This time we were prepared and I was super excited! I even tried to coordinate dh’s tie to my dress. Cheesy I know, but I didn’t want to be totally mismatched!

On the way to dinner:

We had dinner at Luminers on this night and were happy to be reunited with our tablemates (Kimberly and garth) and our servers ester and Dario! They said they missed us the night before and we let them know that I was having sea sickness issues. They weren’t having any issues at all because we came to find out that they live on a boat so they were used to being on the water. Lucky them! Dinner was really great and the chocolate dessert was delicious!

I don’t remember what we had to eat and I didn’t write it down. Sorry about that! Garth said he didn’t expect to see us at dinner because he saw(they had a room down the hall from us) that we had the privacy please sign on the door(we had it up because we were napping of course! But it became a running theme throughout the trip that they’d joke about our sign always being up. Lol)

these pictures were taken at dinner:

We were going to get pictures taken in the lobby before dinner, but we ended up doing it afterwards so we wouldn’t feel rushed and the lines weren’t as long either after dinner.(either dh didn't scan these or we didn't buy them due to his glasses glare b/c I don't seem them on our flickr page)

After pictures we went to see the adult only cabaret show by John Charles. I mentioned he was in the show that was performed in the theater the first night of the cruise. Dh and I were having a wonderful time, but my stomach started to bother me (I have a super sensitive stomach) so after being there about 40 minutes we said goodbye to Kimberly and garth (we were sitting with them) and then headed back to the room. Dh said John charles waved to us as we were leaving, but I was just concentrating on my stomach hurting so I had my head down and was walking as quickly as I could b/c I wanted fresh air. I really wish that we could of stayed the whole time…he was very funny!

We took this pic in the room with the tri pod ( the wind was blowing dhs tie and my dress...you can see my dress poofing out hehe) :

This was waiting for us when we got back to the room:

I love that she made it look like either steam boat willie is giggling at the swan or telling him secrets hehe so cute!

Once we got back to the room of course the ship was rocking pretty bad again and I didn’t have anymore dramaine and the gift shop was closed so dh called guest services to see if they could help us out. They said come down to the front desk and they’d give dh some packets of this pill called sea calm, which was basically the same thing as the Dramamine. So I took that and relaxed on the couch and watched tv for a little while until we were ready for bed. I just want to say though I wish dh would of known about the sea calm at the desk instead of paying like three bucks for dramaine in the gift shop because the sea calm was free. I know they just try to get ya where they can and it works, but had I known I would of just gone to guest services in the first place.

Bridge report:

Speed: 16.1 knots

Distance traveled from port Canaveral: 985 miles

Distance to St. Croix: 113 miles
Arrival time: 7am
Departure: 6pm

Partly cloudy/71% humidity/75 degrees

All pools were 84-86 degrees and the wind was from the east with a moderate breeze.

Sea condition: moderate 4-8 feet (it felt worse than that let me tell ya!)

Coming up next: We FINALLY get to get off the ship at our first port of call...st. croix!

 

[kmab00]

I love the towel animal! that's so cute!

Your dress is adorable and I love how you guys matched so well! Sorry again that you were sick. It's such an awful feeling!

I can't wait to hear all about St. Croix!

I'll start a Cruise TR soon....I've just been very busy latey!

 

[KristinAnne]

Your dress is so pretty! I hope your stomach starts to adjust soon. I am really not sensative, but it's one of my concerns about going on a cruise. Sometimes I think I'd love it and other times I'm not so sure.

 

[Girldreamer02]

I love the towel animal! that's so cute!

Your dress is adorable and I love how you guys matched so well! Sorry again that you were sick. It's such an awful feeling!

I can't wait to hear all about St. Croix!

I'll start a Cruise TR soon....I've just been very busy latey!

I thought it was super adorable too! Thank you!!! Eh...its a normal thing for me to get sick when I'm away from home. I think I just get tired and my immune system starts to break down on me. Plus all that recycled air on the ship...I'm sure that didn't help. St. Croix was pretty!!! Aww yay...sorry you've been busy I can relate to that! Thanks for reading!

Your dress is so pretty! I hope your stomach starts to adjust soon. I am really not sensative, but it's one of my concerns about going on a cruise. Sometimes I think I'd love it and other times I'm not so sure.

Thank you! Well..it wasn't so much the waves that were bothering my stomach (well that was part of it), but my stomach is sensitive to some foods to and we eat pretty healthy while at home so to be eating foods I don't typically eat was really throwing it for a loop. Cruises are awesome you should try just a 3 or 4 day to see if you like it...thats what we did for our honeymoon and fell in love with cruising! Dh wants to go again very soon, but I want to try to go to charleston, s.c. if he feels better and we have time off. Thanks for reading!

 

[Girldreamer02]

been a busy weekend, but I'll be updating tomorrow at some point! Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

 

[Lynn5700]

OOOH I love your dress so much!! So cute!

The towel animal is adorable. I love how they set it up. Aww!

 

[Girldreamer02]

OOOH I love your dress so much!! So cute!

The towel animal is adorable. I love how they set it up. Aww!

Thank you! I love that dress too...I had it laying around so I decided I'd wear it on the cruise! Yes it is to cute! Thanks for reading!

 

[Girldreamer02]

Evening attire: pirate or casual

Drink of the day:

Pineapple moijito (alcholic)

Purple basil lemonade (non alcoholic)

What we woke up to(I believe we were in the docking process):

I can't get over how amazing this water is...so beautiful!

I love all the little houses in the hills...how cute!

This morning we took our time getting ready because my head was so stuffy and congested I thought it was going to explode! How annoying! We’re on a Disney cruise in a beautiful port of call that I haven’t been to since we only went to Nassau on our honeymoon cruise and I feel like death! Seriously dh made fun of me because my nose was so stuffy that I was breathing through my mouth. At one point he asked me if I was catching flies? Um no and your def not helping the situation lol.

We grabbed some lunch at topsiders, but it was an asian theme and I wasn’t very hungry so I just picked at my food. We took a few pictures since we were facing St. Croix and sitting on the deck already and then we decided to get off the ship and look around Fredericksted, which was the town we were in once you got up the walk way from the ship. On the other side of the island was Christansted.

Let me just tell ya…we never made it over there.(sorry karen I know you wanted to hear all about it) Lol. I was saving all my energy for St. Thomas in two days! I knew there were a ton of jewelry stores in St. Thomas that were highly recommended! I know there were some in Christanstead too, but we didn’t want to take a taxi over there and have to walk around and expend my precious energy. (such a downer I am lol)

We mostly just walked around and took pictures. I was having a very hard time between having sea legs and having a cold. I was dizzy the whole time we were on land and felt like we were still floating (I expected this bc I had this issue when we cruised in july.) I just hate it b/c it makes feel yucky!

the water was so clear you could see straight to the bottom...it was deep and i was freaked I was going to fall in

this pier felt like it never ended:

I love old stuff like this...very awesome!

Love this pic!

Our first stop was the drug store…I’ve never been so happy to see a drug store in my life! We bought some overly priced cold medicine and a bottle of water so I could get a little relief! Then we walked around. I’m wondering if Christanstead looks like Frederickstead because if it does then it looks semi run down and really old and historic. Some of the buildings were in bad shape. I realize their economy isn’t the best and that for quite some time they weren’t getting much tourism because ships stopped going there…something about drugs being smuggled. I forget who told me this, but rest assured it was a credible source. Even though the buildings look old and kind of run down I still think it was pretty. That’s just my opinion though and I like that kind of stuff. So it might not be everyones cup of tea!

We bought a few magnets…I know your thinking how incrediably cheesy, but seriously these weren’t just the cheesy magnets. They were brightly colored fish. In the shop where I bought these fish magnets the guy was telling me all about the hand crafted stuff he had in there. There was lots of cool stuff, but anything I looked at he had a story for. I appreciate it, but I start to get flustered and pressured when they do that to ya. Know what I mean? I’m not sure what the magnets were made of, but they were really pretty and I bought them for my mom because she loves fish, lighthouses…basically anything with a nautical theme and my dad compliments her nicely since he likes ships! We didn’t find him a ship, but its just as well b/c the few he does have take up most of the room they have for displaying.

What I loved about this little town was that everyone was super friendly and would say good afternoon to us as we were walking around. So sweet and friendly! There were a bunch of tents set up right by the gate you have to walk through when you walk from or to the ship. They had anything and everything you could think of. Tee shirts, home made jewelry, knock off purses, etc etc. I love looking at the jewelry people make…its so beautiful! I saw something I liked, but I was worried I wouldn’t wear it enough and it would collect dust so I passed. It was pretty though! Not to mention I was secretly hoping to find a necklace or ring in St. Thomas because when we went to Nassau I got a hearts on fire necklace. So pretty!

Once we were done walking around we decided to sit by the water in the shade and just hang out a little. We saw a gecko while we were sitting there…not really a fan, but he was kind of cute. We sat and watched the maintenance guys for the ship drive around the lifeboat for a little bit. Not that exciting, but we were trying to figure out exactly what they were doing. After we had enough people watching we decided to head back to the ship.

Since it was still rather early in the afternoon and there weren’t any activities we wanted to take part in we decided to put our suits on and head for the adult pool. We were in there about an hour and the water was the perfect temperature. When we got out we headed for the bar, but only had non alcoholic drinks. Lol. We aren’t huge drinkers…especially when I don’t feel good! I had some strawberry/vanilla smoothie thing (it was freakin’ delicious and numbed my sore throat so I was happy! Dh had the drink of the day, which I guess I lied…he did drink after all. Lol We sat on deck ten where it was pretty deserted and quiet and just looked at St. Croix (frederickstead) and sipped our drinks. A cm (are they still called cm’s on the ship? Lol) came by and saw our water camera sitting on the table and offered to take our picture. How sweet! Yea, still haven’t gotten those developed. Oppsie! Need to get on that so I can post them here!

On the way back to the room we stopped at plutos dog house to grab some food to take with us. I ate and took a nap. I wasn’t super hungry since the smoothie filled me up. After I woke up I took a shower and got ready for dinner. We were going to go to the show, which was Twice Charmed (we hadn’t seen this on the wonder b/c the shows can differ between ships.) I was a little bummed that we couldn’t make it, but I settled for watching it on tv of course! Very good! I liked it a lot!

I"ll post more pics in the next post...have to many for this post and I'll work on part two of this day tomorrow or weds! Thanks for reading everyone!

 

[Girldreamer02]

Customs house:

Love the little bird...to cute!

You can see them lowering the one lifeboat:

I love the shutters for some reason...very cute!

I liked all the bushes climbing all over the wall to the right:

See the yellow lifeboat out there...they were driving that thing around forever...guess they have to test it or something?

not sure why we took this pic, but I like it anyways lol

Up next the second half of our day and some firework pictures from the pirate and princess party!

 

[kmab00]

Hehe It's ok! I liked your update! You told a lot about St. Croix! Sounds very nice! I'm sorry you didn't make it to Twice Charmed! What a FABULOUS show!!! I still think my faovrite is Disney Dreams! Glad you at least got to watch it on TV!

Can't wait to hear more!

 

[Lynn5700]

OOOH awesome update!!! I love the pictures! Look at that water! It's gorgeous!!!!

 

[Girldreamer02]

Hehe It's ok! I liked your update! You told a lot about St. Croix! Sounds very nice! I'm sorry you didn't make it to Twice Charmed! What a FABULOUS show!!! I still think my faovrite is Disney Dreams! Glad you at least got to watch it on TV!

Can't wait to hear more!

It was super nice! I just wish we could of gone to the other side, but there is always another time I suppose! The show was really awesome even though we only watched it on tv! Thanks for reading!

OOOH awesome update!!! I love the pictures! Look at that water! It's gorgeous!!!!

Thank you! Yes, the water is so gorgeous...can I go back right now?! I'd be in heaven! Thanks for reading!

 

[KristinAnne]

Love love love the Carribean water!! I miss it so much anytime I see pictures of it! Your pictures of the island are great.

 

[Girldreamer02]

Love love love the Carribean water!! I miss it so much anytime I see pictures of it! Your pictures of the island are great.

Thank you very much! Yes, I miss it VERY much too! That water is like a dream its so pretty! Thanks for reading!

 

[scottny]

great updates and pics.

sorry you weren't feeling well.

that water is gorgeous. it looks so pretty there.

 

[Girldreamer02]

great updates and pics.

sorry you weren't feeling well.

that water is gorgeous. it looks so pretty there.

Thank you!!! Yes, its beautiful! I love cruising!!! Thanks for stopping by!

 

[Girldreamer02]

After watching twice charmed on tv we went to bingo and I won a pirate skull filled with goodies, which I had no need for. Lol.(we actually ended up leaving it in our room the day we disembarked) I also won 100 dollars, go me! And I won the raffle prize, which was a DCL photo album so it was a pretty lucky night for me at bingo! Claire from England brought it back to me (loved her accent by the way!) and said that the pixie dust was with me today. Indeed it was! If anyone has cruised with Claire on their cruise staff she is truly a delight! Natalie was our bingo queen and jen was also on the bingo staff and sometimes Trevor would join in too. It was always a great time at bingo and I look forward to doing bingo again next cruise no matter who the bingo staff is! I was one number away from winning the last game, but someone else got it. Darnit! There is always next time!

After our excitement at bingo we headed for animators palate as it was almost time for dinner! We were walking through shutters to get to animators palate and I look behind me and there was pirate Minnie! (the door they go in and out of is right by shutters) I said hi to Minnie and she gave me a kiss. How sweet! We stopped to look at our pictures at the kisosk and chip came up behind us and was checking out my pirate skull that I had won. I think he was worried about who it might have been so dh told him not to worry it wasn’t anybody he knew and that we won it at bingo. Lol. He seemed happy with that and was able to move on. Some of our best character interaction was just bumping into them like that. Good times!

We are saying arrgg per the photo persons suggestion lol:

At dinner our table mates were a little intoxicated to say the least. Actually Kim was more so than her husband, but it was hilarious. Apparently they had rented a car in frederickstead and drove to christanstead where the Cruzan rum factory is and they went on the tour. They did some sampling and they also made mention of the fact that just walking anywhere near the factory could make you drunk off the smell alone. I was rather amused and entertained through out dinner. Dh and I had a good laugh. She made mention of the fact that we had our privacy sign up more than them…wasn’t sure where she was going with that, but I had a feeling and quickly changed the subject. Lol. Didn’t need to hear to much info coming out.

I forgot to say that when we sat down at dinner there were bandanas sitting in front of us and our assistant waiter (whatever their technical term is) tied the bandanas on to our heads so we were all pirates, which is fun! We weren’t really dressed the part otherwise so at least we were a tiny bit festive. They were also offering kids cups with a glowing tinkerbell in either green or red. I got red since pink is my fave color and it’s a cousin of pink as I like to say.

So after dinner we’re on the elevator taking it to deck eight and this little girl was talking about tinkerbell and made some mention about mine (I had clipped it to my hoodie string) and she was like you have red and I was like yep because it’s a cousin of pink. Lol. So I showed it to her because she wanted to see it and then her mom shrieks OH MY GOD, can I see your wedding ring?! I thought she was going to grab my hand off lol. Like as soon as she saw it her hand flew up. So I showed it to her and she told me that she loved it. It caught me off guard. This wasn’t the only time I about had my left arm pulled off this trip. The next time is coming up later in the TR. So I told her about it (it’s a princess cut, but its turned on its side, which is called a compass setting.) she had asked otherwise I wouldn’t of bothered. So she asked to see it again and showed me hers (its was beautiful as well) and she acted like it wasn’t. She was like mine is so small,which it wasn’t as small as she made it sound. It was very pretty!

Her daughter was telling me she liked hook better (I guess they had hook glow in the dark things too…maybe I did have hook now that I think about it) b/c he was red and she liked red. Me too! She was super adorable! Her mom was very sweet too! We went to the pirate and princess party and saw the fireworks and then headed back to the room. We didn’t really care about anything else. I’m pretty sure we went to bed when we got back after watching tv for a while. I also didn’t write down a report from the bridge so I must of crashed pretty fast.


Pirate Mickey:

Its no Wishes, but its pretty darn awesome to have fireworks out in the middle of the ocean especially since disney is the only cruise line in the industry that does fireworks.

This was waiting for us when we got back...a sea turtle...how cute!

I like that she sat the skull there too (apparently we returned it to the room before we went to dinner. Didn't write that down. No biggie.

Up next: Our day in St. Thomas (I mentioned earlier that it wasn't for two days, but I misled ya'll. Sorry!) Will I find the jewelry I'm looking for?

 

[scottny]

great update and pics.

I love they do fireworks on the cruise.

the rum factory sounds like fun.

 

[Girldreamer02]

great update and pics.

I love they do fireworks on the cruise.

the rum factory sounds like fun.

Yea I wish we could of gone to the rum factory...perhaps another time. thanks for reading!

 

[Girldreamer02]

Port of Call: St. Thomas

Evening attire: Cruise Casual

Drink of the day: Alcoholic (sunken treasure)
Non alcoholic (purple basil)

Today we got up around 6:45 and looked outside only to be greeted with just about the most beautiful site I’ve ever seen! It was so beautiful! I was in awe…I swear if it was at all possible for me to live on the island of St. Thomas I’d jump at that chance! It was so pretty! There were little sail boats in the water everywhere and the ocean was so amazingly blue and I could see straight to the bottom…well maybe it wasn’t the bottom, but I could def see down into the water, which was awesome! There were little houses on the hillsides, which were so cute! I felt like it wasn’t real and that we were in some movie or something. It was just so awesome!

We got showers and headed off to breakfast. Neither of us felt the best, but we didn’t want to waste our vacation especially since we were at St. Thomas for the day! We got off the ship and both of us were swaying back and fourth…of course we had our sea legs when we needed our land legs. It was like this for most of the day. I think that’s how the locals distinguish people. Lol. We looked in some shops, which were all mostly jewelry stores, but there were a few tee shirt shops too that we checked out. I saw a ring that would of matched the necklace I got in july while we were in the Bahamas, but I decided I’d wait on a purchase since we had just started our day on the island and I was sure I could find something else just as pretty at a better price! I am always worried that I am going to have purchase regrets. I was worried after I bought my wedding dress that I was going to have dress regret so I wouldn’t let myself watch davids bridal commercials or look in to many bridal magazines. Lol. Turns out there were no regrets, but I digress.

All the shops were starting to look the same after you go in a few, but its still fun to look. We went into a store that sold a lot of tanzanite. For anyone who dosen’t know (because I didn’t until I visited the Bahamas in july) tanzanite is a stone…blueish in color it can range anywhere from a very light blue all the way to a very dark blue or even some are purpleish in color. There aren’t many tanzanite mines so its not sold in the u.s. supposedly (I’m not sure if I believe this…I think they might tell you this to make you buy more of it on the islands.), but at any rate since there isn’t a huge surplus of it the value of it goes up every year that you own it thus making it a valuable piece of jewelry to own. Also the darker the stone is the more valuable it is said to be.

With that being said we stopped into this store called Jewels and diamond jewelers. We were looking around and I checked out the tanzanite. Keep in mind I wasn’t expecting to get anything on this trip since dh had spoiled me on our july cruise. I see a white gold tanzanite ring that has a pretty darkish blue stone and dh saw it too and pointed it out. He asked me if I liked it…um hello? I’d like to introduce myself…I’m your wife and I love jewelry especially tanzanite! Lol. So long story short after checking out a few rings I ended up with the ring. Its so pretty!

We also got a hoodie for me because it was raining, but of course it stopped shortly after that. Go figure! That’s okay I didn’t buy it solely because of the rain. After our purchase of the ring, which I was super excited about we looked in some more stores! We went in this store that sold black coral just to look around because they had some cool sculptures amongst other things and I had never seen black coral so I thought it was pretty awesome. Well we left pretty quickly because everywhere we went in the store a sales lady was following us and telling us about pieces and then she was trying to sell dh and I both matching rings. We don’t matching rings not to mention the black coral ones were uglier than can be! Not to mention expensive! No thanks lady! Someone else came in and they distracted her and we ran! Haha…not literally, but we did get the heck out of dodge.

That’s the annoying thing about going in these stores, sales people follow you around like a lost puppy. I understand they are trying to get sales, but I get annoyed and start to feel pressured and just leave. The lady that sold us the ring was very low key and polite, which is why she made the sale!

After the irritating black coral lady we went into Cardow, which I knew from hearing the shopping talk on the ship was a pretty good place to find good deals and really great jewelry so I was pretty excited even though I knew my chances were slim since I had already scored a ring! I once again started looking at tanzanite and found two necklaces. I was trying to be nice to dh and I told him I liked the necklace that had the smaller stone because honestly I really could of gone either way between the two and would of still been a happy camper. I left the decision up to him and he told the lady that we would take the necklace with the bigger stone. The lady was very nice and didn’t hassle us and was also very informative about the jewelry and trying to work deals with us and all that good stuff. She also hummed a lot, which I found very cute. You could tell she was really into her job and enjoying life and I like that!

We looked in some more shops, got harassed by some tour bus guys (expect a lot of that when in ports of call), and we had lunch at Subway. Now I know your probably thinking your on St. Thomas why didn’t you eat some place local? Because we didn’t feel good and I knew my stomach would tolerate subway because that never bothers me. It was very humid on this day especially after the rain so I felt very yucky like I was going to pass out so dh ordered for us and I sat down. I swear if I would of stood in line I would of passed out. I felt that bad. I hate feeling so bad on vacation! Once I started to eat and get some sugar and food into my system I was okay. We chatted and enjoyed the a/c and just relaxed. I think my blood sugar was low, which sometimes happens to me. It’s the worst feeling ever!

While we were in subway there was a lady on her cell phone while trying to order and she wouldn’t get off. The girl asked her what kind of cheese she wanted? The lady said any kind. She said do you want it toasted? No answer so she asked again and the lady says yea sure. Then she says put everything on it like she couldn’t be bothered to get off the phone to let them know specifically what she wanted. How rude! The people were talking about her after she left. I can’t believe the girl taking her order didn’t lose her cool. I would of!

After lunch we headed across the street to the bank to get some cash so dh could pay the taxi driver because we were going to head downtown or whatever they call the part of st. Thomas we went to. Lol. On the way in we got hassled by some more tour guys, dh had to practically beat them off which a stick lol. How many ways can you say no? Dh kept saying no thank you, we’re not interested. Etc etc.

We headed downtown on the taxi, which is all open air and looks more like a little bus, but there was a nice breeze and we enjoyed the ride aside from it being a little bumpy, but who cares at least we weren’t walking! It was $4/per person to go downtown in case anybody wanted to know. I didn’t think that was to bad and I think dh even tipped the guy as well. We took pictures and used our flip along the way.

We looked in a few stores once we were downtown. As we were walking down the street there are guys standing outside saying come in my store and I’ll show you the best diamonds on the island. No thanks. If there are several of you saying it then it can’t be true b/c all of you can’t have the best diamonds on the island. Am I right or am I right? Lol.

I forget what store we went into, but the sales girl followed us from case to case and kept asking what can I show you and we told her more than once we were only looking and I finally whispered to dh lets go! We went to the other side of the road and went into tiffany and co. I have a bracelet from there that dh bought me when he lived in Washington for work a few summers ago, but I had never been in a tiffanys so I was excited to look around. I didn’t find anything, but they had some pretty stuff.

In one store I did find another tanzanite ring that was white gold and had a little wave in the band…it was so pretty, but they were going out of business and wouldn’t come down in price. So we said we were going to look around and come back. We never did go back, but that was ridiculous that they wouldn’t come down on the price. I’m sure they could of at least a little bit and she wasn’t even willing to ask the boss, which made me think it was kind of suspicious. Maybe not, but I was skeptical. She asked dh if he was going to let me have the ring and telling him it looked beautiful on my finger. Basically guilting him. Sorry…that dosen’t work on him.

We went in a store that sold a little bit of everything…I wouldn’t even know what to call it, but they sold electronics and that kind of thing. Dh ended up buying a zoom lens for our camera and he looked it up online when we got back to the ship to see if he actually got a good deal and he did, which he figured he did, but you never can be certain. I was happy that dh bought the lens because I felt like he hadn’t got anything on the trip and he really loves to take pictures (as do I), but it was mainly for him since he takes most of our pics. He told me he didn’t mind because he just likes being on vacation and spending time with me and he likes to do the pin trading and that is his thing, but seriously…I got a ring and a necklace and he pin traded. How is that fair? Lol. He has lots of toys at home though so no worries on that front. In fact he is getting the new iphone in a few weeks when it comes out!

I'm going to stop here because I have kind of a long update from this day, but I'll try to update again tomorrow.