Cruising week 1

I'm back..yes, long delay in posts but I have had some internet issues...once it froze up on me and another time I almost finished an entry and the computer spontaneously re-booted itself and I lost everything...the ship ate my homework.

So.....Day 6 on the cruise ship.....Here is an amusing sampling of the daily itinerary..there are many exciting options for activities:

8:00am - Brainwaves quiz
10:30am - Table tennis Get-together
11:30am - Brunch-time trivia
2:15pm - Pictionary
3:15pm - Shuffleboard
3:30pm - Afternoon tea served in a musical atmosphere
4:30pm - Afternoon trivia quiz
5-9:00pm - Pre-dinner music with Anatolie and Pawel
7:30pm - Fine Arts

I know you think I made that up...I SWEAR I didn't.....I don't even HAVE that good an imagination. In case you are curious...I chose option B: drink margarita's by pool, work on tan, win epic battle with Fatty McFatFat for last chocolate chip cookie at the buffet.

There's not really anything fun to do for anyone under 50 here. Last night's evening activities were:

A) 1950's Sock Hop (again, I swear I didn't make that up)
B) Hokey musical review with the princess dancers(I went to it the other night and hmm..where do I start. It would be great to go to with a friend so I would have someone to mock it with. The two leads were actually singing but the Chorus was lip-sincing...BADLY. This one guy didn't seem to know the words to the songs and it looked like a kung Fu movie where you hear the English but the actor's lips are moving to different words ..only he would join in late whenever they held a note...and then look so proud, like he thought no one noticed... which made it funnier, the poor boy, he tried so hard I felt bad laughing at him.)
C) Piano bar

Again, in case you're curious I chose option D...go to bed..try to read but to drunk from sunbathing with margarita's and too tired from 5-course plate service force feeding and am sleeping by 10:30pm...Whose the old person now?!

We have visited 3 Islands so far. St. Vincent, Granada, and St. Lucia.

St. Vincent was really dirty...I was very unimpressed by it..it was reminiscent of Tijuana, but without the shopping...We arrived about 5 hours late due to strong headwinds sailing and only had a few hours before the ship left so not really time to head out to anywhere nicer on the island. I'm sure there were nice beaches or something away from the downtown slums. Funny though...for a tourist place there was little to no shopping, 5-10 stalls by the boat selling beaded necklaces and T-shirts but nothing else, not even a restaurant or bar to sit in. We just walked around for an hour and headed back to the ship.

Granada was really pretty. It's still a poor place that was hit hard by Hurricane Ivan a few years ago but not slummy and dirty...it was nice...tons of little houses built into the cliffs, lots of lush rain forest, little kids everywhere playing, waterfalls, rivers ect. Their main trade there is spices...especially nutmeg, so most people are spice farmers. We took a couple hour bus tour of the island which was nice to see...nice to get away from the tourist crap that surrounds the ship! Our bus had some rude ignorant Americans on it, which was unfortunate, but I had fun anyway. Did a little shopping...bought some spices, and some nutmeg syrup.

St.Lucia was a bigger more city-like island. Has a really nice harbor. Didn't do much here...I wanted to go on this really fun sounding tour...A rain forest trip with a 3 hour canopy ropes course...how cool would that be?? The description said an active action adventure...so I assumed it was something fun and athletic and the pictures of it looked cool. However, the trip was cancelled due to lack of interest. That sucks...There was a tour I wanted to do in St. Thomas(2 days from now) and it was also cancelled due to lack of interest..it was a bike trip down a mountain into a beach for snorkeling. I did manage to book a 2 hour hike with swim/beach time on a nice white sand beach for St.Thomas...they needed 4 people so they wouldn't cancel the tour and 3 others had already signed up..so yeah! Hopefully it is fun!

Tonight's entertainment consists of:

A)C'est Manifique the French musical review...
B)Name that tune
C)Island night tropical deck party....this is a quote: "A night to remember; Games, Prizes, Surprises, Limbo, Congo and more..." Well, if there's congo....Also: "Our chef has prepared an amazing buffet you will have the opportunity to take pictures of it from 11pm and 11:15pm"
Oh, there's more..." Disco on deck!! DJ Dan keeps the party going"

Haha!

They also take pictures of you doing everything here and then print them of with a corny background and sell them to you at $15 a pop. Every time you leave the ship, every time you have a formal night at dinner, around the pool, at your dinner table...I'm expecting them to set up at the bathroom door any day now. I could buy all the photo's of me and use them like a flip book.