Week 2 Thursday

It's Thursday again, what day it is I don't know, but the ship is in St. Maarten. Today we pulled into sunny, beautiful St. Maarten. The water here is always so amazing. We did t get off. Hubbs wasn't impressed with the island 2 years ago & frankly I could use the sleep & easy day on board. Out plan of skipping Jamaica last week went into play for today. Pool, lunch at J Rockets, Pre dinner show & dinner then 70's night. I will tell you what out friends did today. Because they got off & that's probs more interesting than my day. Jim & Anne went the to beach right near the port. The go off about 10:30a got 2 sun beds, a double umbrella 2 beers & 2 sodas for $15. That sounds like an amazing deal. They said that the police have stepped up their regulation of beach vendors so while they expected to be hassled, as has unfortunately been all of our past experiences, they were left alone unless they engaged a seller. Ann & Jim both arranged for private beach massages & had a small lunch on the beach, they say over all they probably spent about $100 ($15 for beach set up & 4 drinks, $40 for massages for the both of them, $20 for additional cocktails, $15 for lunch including wine) Not a bad beach day at all!!! I'll be keeping that in mind come next round. (Although the Mr. says he's ready for the southern Caribbean next...after the Med next year) We had made arrangements to meet at the pub at 7 for drinks before dinner. It was so fun to sit & watch the sale vultures circle before the big $10 & buy 5 get 1 free sale. Off to dinner, tonight was the dancing in the dining room night. The head head waiter was dressed in a neon hula skirt using a pink one for his wig & New Year's Eve esque glasses. Seeing our waiters dance was so fun then we as the crowd got to join in. It's funny we heard the commotion last week but being tucked in a corner where it's difficult for the waiters to get around in deck 4 and the difference of being on deck 3 makes us a part of the evening. We adjourned to the pub to wait for the 70's dance party. After we settled in for a nightcap & went off to our rooms. We're at sea tomorrow. We already staked out a new & different place to sit on the pool deck so we will see how that goes. Later Smooches & smiles Stephanie & Sean.