Barbados

Buenos Dias!
Yesterday we went to Barbados. Our cruise compass says that it was offensive to wear any military or camouflage type clothing on the island. Interesting, no?
Grant and I slept in a bit, as we had no organized tour, and went to breakfast up in the Windjammer. After breakfast, we grabbed our stuff and left the ship. We grabbed a taxi and told the driver we wanted a nice beach with good snorkeling on the west side of the island. The beach he took us to was neat. We saw a turtle and lots of fish. There are lots of schools of fish here, which are fun to see. The beach we were at had a local kids camp there, so there were a lot of cute little rugrats…
After an afternoon on the beach we drove back to the ship. I saw plumeria growing. This is the first island I’ve seen it on. Barbados seems very different. We didn‘t see as much of it, but the part we did see seemed much more modern. Our taxi driver told us they just had a festival earlier in the week for Crop-ending, to celebrate the end of the sugar cane season. He also said that people party hop on the islands and go from Carnival to carnival.
Back on the ship, we showered and got ready for dinner….it was lobster night! Grant had a salmon appetizer, Cream of asparagus soup, a chicken entrée, and a sampler platter for dessert. (The platter had a fruit tart, a slice of cheesecake, and a small chocolate fudge cake. )
I had a cream of mushroom pastry, cream of asparagus soup, the fisherman’s platter, which consisted of a lobster tail, and garlic shrimp, and then I had… another lobster tail… hee hee, and then the sampler platter. Yummy lobster.
After dinner we played ‘Win a Cruise bingo” but we didn’t win a cruise. Then we watched tonight’s production show, which was called “Velvet Rope.” The theme was taking you behind the velvet rope and into the hottest nightclubs around the world. I really enjoyed Velvet Rope. I thought it was a great show.
After our show, we went down to see the rest of our pictures and bought a few more, and then we went to see the Adventure Quest. This quest had the whole studio b ice rink (turned into a dance floor) split up in to teams. There were four team captains for each team. The cruise director would ask for things, and the team captain would need to run up with it and their team number to get points. First team got 5 points, second got 4, and so on un till the 5th team…everyone past the 5th team that completed the quest also got a point. Things were like a guy wearing girl’s lipstick, a real tattoo, two bras, a contraceptive device (which was really funny, the second he said a contraceptive device the guy from our team had sprinted up their and whipped a condom out o0f his pocket…it was all ready to go!) It was pretty funny.
Today, we are at sea all day. And tomorrow our cruise is over and so we have to pack tonight! But I’m not feeling those “end of vacation blues” yet…