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Day 4 - St. Maarten!
We meet up at the spa and I spent time on the bike as the ship headed into the dock. We had 4 ships total in port today including Liberty of the Seas that has someone I work with on it. Our plan for the day is simple, take the water taxi into town and do some shopping, we may or may not stay for the Carnival parade. After doing my workout I meet up with Mark who is on deck 10 taking some pictures of us docking. We then hear that the ship has been cleared and we can go ashore. We grab a quick breakfast at Topsiders and then head out.
The line for the water taxi wasn't too long yet (two of the ships hadn't cleared yet) and we made good time into town. Our first stop was Del Sol where we picked up 2 t-shirts for us and 2 jars of color changing slime for the Ohio kids. We also got free color changing lanyards and a free hat for Mark. Next was to Majesty where Mark had bought me a beautiful ring years before. Over the years a small chip happened in the opal and he was hoping to buy me a new piece. We were thinking of a pendant this time but everything was way out of our price range. No worries at all, the gold band on my left hand is my most important piece of jewelry. We decide to head back to the ship to relax and opt to miss the parade and the crush of people. After getting back to the ship we head to the mostly empty adult pool and relax there for a while, then a nice lunch at Topsiders.
For the afternoon we catch National Treasure 2 in the Buena Vista theatre. We rarely go to the movies at home but there are a lot playing on this cruise we want to see.
Dinner tonight is back in Parrot Cay and we get to watch us sail from Saint Maarten while at dinner. The show in the Walt Disney theatre is a movie tonight - College Road trip which we go see, cute movie! After that we say goodbye to the Ohio family, they are headed to the Pirate Party but we are opting to watch the fireworks from our verandah. There are no plans for a workout tomorrow as we report to immigration at 6:45 and our shore excursion at 7:15.
Day 5 - St. Thomas!
Up nice and early as we are heading into St. Thomas. A quick breakfast at Topsiders and then up on deck 10 for some pictures, we then make our way down to the Walt Disney theatre to check in. Immigration hasn't started yet so we are seated in the back center and wait our turn, once it starts it goes pretty quickly. We then go back to the room to get everything for our excursion and head down to the BV theater for checkin. The boat we are taking over to St. John, the Island Girl, is docked right next to us.
It is a beautiful ride over and we are soon boarding a taxi and making our way to Trunk Bay. Our driver stops right before we get there on an overlook to show us the beautiful beach!
As we enter the grounds we see the surf conditions are rough today and the visibility fair but it is a beautiful day and we are going to make the most of it. We spread out our DVC beach towel next to the lifeguard station in partial shade (we aren't beach and sun people). There are spikes that come with it to anchor it into the sand, nice! We then get our gear out (we bring our own snorkels and masks) and make our way into the water. There is a snorkel trail here that is marked with 3 buoys. I didn't think I would make it, but did pretty good once we got started. Mark took video out in the water and then went back for a second time to take some pictures. After resting a while we got our stuff together and headed up to the showers and spent some time after that just sitting and talking while waiting for time to leave. Like I said we aren't the type to lay in the sun for long.
We got back to the ship about 12:30 which gave us time for a quick lunch at Topsiders and then a change of clothes. We then headed out for a quick trip up to Paradise Point and them some shopping at the Havensight Mall.
Back on board we took our showers and relaxed until sailaway at 4 pm. We went to deck 7 aft as we were leaving port and who did we meet up with but the Ohio clan. They had listed lifestyle portraits in the atrium and we wanted one done so we headed down early. Well the lifestyle portrait they did was with a black background not the white one. These are more close-up ones and since we were there we decided to do one. Karen and KT showed up and their family was going to do one as well expecting the white background. We all agreed we'd have to dress twice tomorrow night. Once for the lifestyle portrait and once for semi-formal night. We also took pictures with Lilo and Stitch (since we were in our Hawaiian wear) and one as a group with Captain Jack Sparrow since he had no line.
Dinner was back in Lumiere's and I made Ivo very happy by ordering an appetizer. Well it was cheese sticks off the kids menu but it still made him happy.
There was a new show tonight. Alfred and Seymour a Hip Hop comedy show. We were beat and didn't go but I heard this morning from Karen and Mike that it was very funny.
We again agreed not to meet up in the morning as I planned to do some laundry.
We meet up at the spa and I spent time on the bike as the ship headed into the dock. We had 4 ships total in port today including Liberty of the Seas that has someone I work with on it. Our plan for the day is simple, take the water taxi into town and do some shopping, we may or may not stay for the Carnival parade. After doing my workout I meet up with Mark who is on deck 10 taking some pictures of us docking. We then hear that the ship has been cleared and we can go ashore. We grab a quick breakfast at Topsiders and then head out.
The line for the water taxi wasn't too long yet (two of the ships hadn't cleared yet) and we made good time into town. Our first stop was Del Sol where we picked up 2 t-shirts for us and 2 jars of color changing slime for the Ohio kids. We also got free color changing lanyards and a free hat for Mark. Next was to Majesty where Mark had bought me a beautiful ring years before. Over the years a small chip happened in the opal and he was hoping to buy me a new piece. We were thinking of a pendant this time but everything was way out of our price range. No worries at all, the gold band on my left hand is my most important piece of jewelry. We decide to head back to the ship to relax and opt to miss the parade and the crush of people. After getting back to the ship we head to the mostly empty adult pool and relax there for a while, then a nice lunch at Topsiders.
For the afternoon we catch National Treasure 2 in the Buena Vista theatre. We rarely go to the movies at home but there are a lot playing on this cruise we want to see.
Dinner tonight is back in Parrot Cay and we get to watch us sail from Saint Maarten while at dinner. The show in the Walt Disney theatre is a movie tonight - College Road trip which we go see, cute movie! After that we say goodbye to the Ohio family, they are headed to the Pirate Party but we are opting to watch the fireworks from our verandah. There are no plans for a workout tomorrow as we report to immigration at 6:45 and our shore excursion at 7:15.
Day 5 - St. Thomas!
Up nice and early as we are heading into St. Thomas. A quick breakfast at Topsiders and then up on deck 10 for some pictures, we then make our way down to the Walt Disney theatre to check in. Immigration hasn't started yet so we are seated in the back center and wait our turn, once it starts it goes pretty quickly. We then go back to the room to get everything for our excursion and head down to the BV theater for checkin. The boat we are taking over to St. John, the Island Girl, is docked right next to us.
It is a beautiful ride over and we are soon boarding a taxi and making our way to Trunk Bay. Our driver stops right before we get there on an overlook to show us the beautiful beach!
As we enter the grounds we see the surf conditions are rough today and the visibility fair but it is a beautiful day and we are going to make the most of it. We spread out our DVC beach towel next to the lifeguard station in partial shade (we aren't beach and sun people). There are spikes that come with it to anchor it into the sand, nice! We then get our gear out (we bring our own snorkels and masks) and make our way into the water. There is a snorkel trail here that is marked with 3 buoys. I didn't think I would make it, but did pretty good once we got started. Mark took video out in the water and then went back for a second time to take some pictures. After resting a while we got our stuff together and headed up to the showers and spent some time after that just sitting and talking while waiting for time to leave. Like I said we aren't the type to lay in the sun for long.
We got back to the ship about 12:30 which gave us time for a quick lunch at Topsiders and then a change of clothes. We then headed out for a quick trip up to Paradise Point and them some shopping at the Havensight Mall.
Back on board we took our showers and relaxed until sailaway at 4 pm. We went to deck 7 aft as we were leaving port and who did we meet up with but the Ohio clan. They had listed lifestyle portraits in the atrium and we wanted one done so we headed down early. Well the lifestyle portrait they did was with a black background not the white one. These are more close-up ones and since we were there we decided to do one. Karen and KT showed up and their family was going to do one as well expecting the white background. We all agreed we'd have to dress twice tomorrow night. Once for the lifestyle portrait and once for semi-formal night. We also took pictures with Lilo and Stitch (since we were in our Hawaiian wear) and one as a group with Captain Jack Sparrow since he had no line.
Dinner was back in Lumiere's and I made Ivo very happy by ordering an appetizer. Well it was cheese sticks off the kids menu but it still made him happy.
There was a new show tonight. Alfred and Seymour a Hip Hop comedy show. We were beat and didn't go but I heard this morning from Karen and Mike that it was very funny.
We again agreed not to meet up in the morning as I planned to do some laundry.
She mentioned this might be her last go however, she's married, her husband has been busy setting up shop in Cancun. Where she gets to visit when the Magic is on a Western, and is looking to settle down with him for a while to start a family.
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Have a wonderful WDW visit. 
