Day 09 At Sea Eat, Eat, Eat.

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Eating again? What else is there to do? Hey, go easy on the mayo, lots of vegetables.

  
Why pick a Sea Day to fix the pool?

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Day 08 Grenada, The Spice Island.

We came to this beautiful Island last year on the Grand Princess. Wendy still has the spice necklace hanging by or kitchen window.

 "I guess you'll have to sit on my lap." "No problem!"

Barry is turning darker by the day. People are now thinking he is a local. 

  

Dorset (the owner of the Lazy Days Bar) chats with Barry. You may remember we spent some
time here last year when we came to Grenada on the Grand Princess last year.
Dorset,  has won money in Canada, not once, not twice, but three times. The first time he won a lottery prize of $50,000.00 and he put a down payment on a house in Windsor.  Later, he won two more prizes, $50,000.00 and $300,000.00 (in a slot machine jackpot) all tax free. The latter amount he divided amongst his children. No wonder he loves Canada! He put his daughter through law school and she works for a prominent law firm in London (Lerner and Lerner).  He lived and worked 15 years in Windsor and commuted to Montreal by car almost every weekend.  A few years ago he moved back to Grenada and opened his beach bar.  His daughter continues to commute from Windsor to London (2 hr each way).

  

Cheryl finds a friend on the beach.

 
The comedian /magician tries to embarrass audience volunteer Howie from Calgary. 

  
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Day 07 Barbados, Like coming home.

We've been to Barbados so many times, both by ship and by air since 1977 that it feels like we are arriving home. I think I mentioned before that we first flew down here when our son Tim was first born. Well he's 35 now. Where does the time go?

 As soon as we got off the ship we met our old friend Curtis.  Back when I started this blog we took a cruise on the Princess Sun .  I had arranged to hire a city bus since there was fourteen of us.   Click here (or go to the "time machine") to read about that trip, nearly six years ago when Curtis was our driver.

 There was two other ships in port as well as the mega-yacht Serene. 

Walking out of the cruise terminal we passed dozens of taxis , finally settling on a nice air conditioned van driven by our driver "the Original Chris". Holly and Barry suggested  we go to  Blue Monkey Beach .  Chris advised us that the Blue Monkey no longer existed (although Barry

already told us that) and that in fact the beach was called Payne's Bay. This is where the cruise ship tours take you to watch and swim with the turtles.

We agreed on a pickup time of 3 pm but before Chris left us he made sure we met a man named "Marvelous" who looked after our every need and took us to a place on the beach where there were rental chairs and umbrellas, and even change cabanas and rinse down showers with a bar serving cold beer.

 Even the hawkers were very well-mannered. They were not persistent or pushy.

  

Another mega-yacht "Iatapa" was waiting for the cruise ships to leave.