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Birthday Cows
Today my friend gave me these adorable salt and pepper shakers for my birthday ^^
Happy Birthday
Today I celebrated my birthday by going out to dinner with friends and having birthday cake 🙂
Birthday Gifts
Tonight I went to my Korean Language group where I got birthday gifts from some of m friends. Seasonal Lindt chocolates from my friend Elissa, and a really pretty scarf from my friends Alice and George ^^ Yay birthday weekend!
Birthday Package from Korea
When we got home from our trip and I had a package waiting for me! A Birthday package from my family in Korea. There isn’t much about this brand online, but it’s a really nice brand that is made in Korea. I think it is sold there and in Italy.
I also got two boxes of these lovely rose shaped soaps, and really sweet notes also.
Last Stop: Nassau
We arrived in Nassau and we all did the ‘Sea and Sea’ Excursion. We had a somewhat 10 minute brisk walk to our first boat for a 15/20 minute boat ride with a bit of a tour on the way where we saw celebrities homes and yachts on paradise island.
We then shimmied up to a second boat that had a bottom that had seats and windows. They called it a “glass bottom boat” so I was expecting something else, but this was a neat experience too. It was like being in the aquarium but with a better view. We saw a lot of fish varieties, corals, and a sea turtle. Our underwater tour was about 30 minutes. Back on the other boat to transport us back to land where we got on a van/bus for the “see” part of the tour.
We saw government buildings, plants, rocks, statues, etc. (above)
We went to the top of a hill and saw the water tower in the first picture above on the left. The images to the right were taken of a fort there across from the water tower. It was $1 to go in, but we only had about 20 minutes there. Mostly we were brought to some shops there with expensive prices.
After the tour we went to the straw market that was near the cruise ship where there were hand made goods. We got a few things, my dad got a hat.
Back at the ship, we had to pack so we could leave our bags outside of our rooms for the next day and leaving. We saw a ‘Legend of the Stars’ show where other cruise-ers dressed up as stars and sang. The best performance was of the cruise director dressed as dolly parton doing the song “nine to five”. It was a great comical skit.
this towel animal was actually from another night, i dont remember which. The last day we got a seal, but this was definitely the coolest one we got.
It was fun having live music to listen to, and just doing nothing but read, nap and relax. Spending time with my parents, making a memory that will last, and seeing new sites is something we should all do 🙂
note: the airport is about 5 minutes from the cruise ship.
Day At Sea
Today we were at sea on our way to our last stop.
We had the sit down breakfast in the morning, and a Galley Tour in the afternoon.
Afterwards we had the sit down lunch. There was a line for the Chocolate Extravaganza, so Gary and I went to our room to read and relax or napped. Later, we went to the Lido and got a few things from the Chocolate Extravaganza before it ended.
We had a couple photo shoots before the elegant evening sit down dinner, afterwards saw a Beatles tribute show that was really well done. I think it was my favourite show of the trip.
Stop 3: Tortola
I don’t think I took any pictures at the port of Tortola. Mostly we did a bit of walking around, there wasn’t a whole lot to see. I did get a pretty summery Caribbean dress, and we got a few things for the grandparents.
Gary and I saw the last part of Kung Fu Panda at the Seaside Theater, we relaxed, napped, Gary and I played a game of Bingo and didn’t win the $500.
Stop 2: Antiqua
Today in Antigua, Gary and I went on the ‘Catamaran, Sail, and Snorkel’ excursion. My dad was having a bit of trouble walking, so my parents didn’t go.
We had a short walk to the catamaran from the ship where we had a tour of the area (picture above on the left). The picture above on the right is of a fort. the second down on the right was the private beach we got to swim at for about 30 minutes after the snorkeling, and the bottom right picture was a rainbow that we saw on the way back to our ship.
some photos I took when snorkeling
Tonight, my parents got the bunny/dog on the left, and Gary and I got the bunny with a crab face -lol
Stop 1: St. Thomas
We learned later from other cruisers, that our trip originally had Puerto Rico as the first top but it was removed, so that’s why we had 2 days at sea instead.
The boat arrived at St. Thomas in the morning. We Got up around 8:30/9:00 and had breakfast. The gangway opened at 10:00, so we planned on leaving at 10:30 to avoid the rush, but they announced that they were going to test the elevators at 10:20 for a few minutes, but it lasted until 11:10, so we finally left after that.
We got outside and took a taxi/open van ride with other cruise members. It was $4 per person, which is the standard rate set by the government, which wasn’t bad. The drive was about 15 minutes into the main part of town where we walked around a bit, looked at some of the shops, etc for a couple of hours. Then we took a taxi/van back to the ship and had lunch on the Lido deck.
Gary went back to the room to read and rest, my dad wanted to explore the ship, and my mom and I went back out to check out the shops that were right outside of the boat in easy walking distance.
My mom spotted this neat flower planter that looked like a big wicker basket.
Afterwards we went back to the ship and I took a nap.
After dinner we went to the ‘MoTown Show’ with Marcus Anthony who has worked with the Supremes, opened for Patty LaBelle and some other musicians. His Website: http://www.themusicandthemaddness.com/
The towel animals for the evening . . . my parents had gotten a piggy towel animal. Gary and I got a different kind of elephant than my parents the other night that was sitting on the top of our couch.
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