A Very Warmer Friday

Good morning friends. Mary Lou & I went for breakfast in the Blush Restaurant. Since we were now platinum. we were given an opportunity to have a drink in the dinner room. Ordinarily, we wouldn't do this but what the heck. Amazingly Mary Lou ordered a Bloody Mary and me a Pina what ever you call it with no alcohol. It was good. After breakfast we went down to the gangway to get off the ship to visit St. Maarten.

 It was a multitude of bodies here. There were 6 ships and many of them were the larger ones, The Allure of the Sea, The Regal Princess, of course ours, Carnival Breeze. If you were total the guests on this island you could say about 24000 people had landed on St' Maarten. 
Since we had bee here many times, we didn't take the water taxi this time. We just stayed near the ship and walked around. Even this area has changed. There are many other new buildings that have been built since I've been here and it wasn't that long ago.

                                               My goodness, this Allure is gigantic. 

 Even though it was sunny with blue skies with some billowing clouds, as you can see where were walked was  wet. All of a sudden and large black cloud emptied itself with a great deal of water. We were lucky because we were inside buying something. When we came out it had finished but there were many wet people but they were still smiling.

I took this photo that was on a wall and it sort of explaned the enjoyment of the islands.

  
Back on the ship  cruise director  Mike was preparing for the guests to watch a block of ice to be sculptured.

The cruise director informed us that the man who sculpturing the block of ice was taught in his country how to sculpture out of wood so ice was just the same idea.
                                                        
                                                      The final piece of art work is

                                                   An American Indian Chief. They have to figure out another type of thing to sculpture. This is our 10th cruise and on every cruise one of the workers is sculpturing a block of ice and guess what? It's an American Indian Chief. Dah!

Later Mary Lou went to dinner with Mary Anne & Judy. I wasn't feeling very well and all I wanted was to watch my movie, " San Andreas ". Before we left I took my last photo of day. It was of the Regal Princess and the Allure of the Seas leaving St. Maarten. After them we left.

After the show I felt very sick and at 8:30 I went to sleep. Oh what about the towel animal. Here it is for the night.

 I think he wanted a drink of wine. Frogs don't drink .......... wine. Good night friends. See you tomorrow on our way to Miami and home. See ya.


 

 

Very Cold But A Sunny Thursday

 

Good morning everyone. As I woke up this morning, I looked out my balcony and noticed the mountains of the island of St. Kitts. It meant that we close to the pier. Ten years ago, on our first cruise we docked on St. Kitts. At that time it looked like this.

2007

2016

Today it looks like this.

 This photo with Amy Lou and where she sat wasn't even there 10 years ago.

 I was so excited to go back to this island. Lets  looks back 10 years ago and and bounce to today. We might enjoy this.

2007

 

2016

One thing I noticed, was the size of the ships. In 2007 I thought my ship, the Carnival Legend was gigantic. The cruise ships of today are double and triple in size..

2007

  

2016

Lets see more about St. Kitts today.

These men were dancing throughout the streets and of course one of the dancers was carrying a can for people to put money into it.

 

 This section hadn't even been built in 2007. Look at the sign, Harley Davidson. To the right was the shop. Straight ahead was a bar. You'll notice that there are many bars around.

 Mary Lou started our tour our St. Kitts and now that we are going back to the ship, I end our tour. Maybe it 10 years, we'll go back to St. Kitts to see if there are any changes.

2007

 Carnival Legend

2016

 Carnival Breeze

Here are two  unusual photos of the past and the present

2007

2016

 

Many more things took place during the rest of the day & night but I'll wait until tomorrow except the following.

 You can see in the foreground their is cruise ship heading out to another island.

Also, Ari didn't forget us. As we entered our cabin after another interesting day and night, surprise.....

 This little animal wanted to have a photo with my watch. OK I said and this little shmuck almost tried to steal it from. 

Have a great night my friend and we'll see you tomorrow.

 

 

Light Snow Wednesday

 

This is the old fort as you enter the bay to San Juan. It's a gigantic area as you will see.

Once we were at the pier I took a photo of downtown San Juan. We decided that we wouldn't get off the ship this time. We just wanted to rest and enjoy the warmth of the sun.

 You can see the old fort in the background.

While on board the ship after lunch the cruise director was doing fun things for the guests. One was the hairy chest game. Really the winner doesn't have to have the hairy chest, it's just how crazy you can do what's asked of you and who the crowd applauds for. It's just a great deal of fun. Here are a couple of photos.

 and the winner is

 The man in the black hat won but I thought he might have a heart attack soon. He was in his high 80's and he was bouncing on the ground, dancing around with beautiful women. They had to separate him from this blonde because he had planted his face in her breasts. Boy was it funny.

Later they had another game where they took a group of men & women and they had to plan a pool dance. Here it is as we saw it.

                   Here are the ladies showing us their dancing moves in the pool.

 Here is CD Mike asking the crowd who they think is the winner and here was the eventual winner. Figure out who won.

THE MEN!

Later we went back in into the Lanai  and the Ocean Plaza for some cooling drinks. Time goes slowly on the ship which is good for me. Later we went for dinner with Romano and I was so lucky taking this photo of the sunset. I think it is one of my best picture. What do you think.

Once again Mary Lou went to take a show and me, a movie, Jurassic World. I wasn't able to see it went it came out and now I saw it. It was great. After meeting again at the Ocean Plaza for a coffee, Mary Lou & I decided to get some sleep. Entering the cabin we saw another friend on our bed.

I think my friend was warning me about something for the next day I started feeling ill. Good night everyone.