Antigua

It's possible that I'm going to overdose on vitamin D! So much sunshine but it has clouded over with a few showers. That's okay as it's noon and I've been out baking for ages already. We are in Antigua today - no excursion again, so we just wandered around the port for a while, sweating buckets in the humidity. Carm is a bit under the weather (it had to be one of us to get a cold!) so wasn't up for a giant walk.

The port area had some high end shops ($180US for a bathing suit!), but once we left the gated area we stumbled across a giant market under a tent with a plethora of cheap sun dresses and other cheap stuff. I didn't buy anything despite being heavily pressured to purchase a white sundress. In the end, I figured I had nowhere to wear something like that so passed.

The rest of the morning we relaxed by the pool. Today we didn't even wait till noon for our first margarita! That's been the drink of the afternoon this trip, aside from the inaugural pina colada that I always have in memory of our first cruise with Jo Ellen & Don.

Last night we met up with Sonia and Perry for supper. We have really hit it off with them - they are so lovely and we seem to have lots to talk about. It was just luck that we sat next to them the first night. 

After dinner we mooched around until the band started playing in the piazza. We found seats with an American couple and I have to admit that I was rude and took out my phone to scroll facebook. Carm was really good at steering the conversation away from politics (imagine that!), but they were Trump voters… ugh. She thought that Trump was a great family man and had never cheated on each of his wives… Melania was the most beautiful and elegant first lady ever (never mind that there are naked pictures of her floating around)… and that he was going to save the country. Yikes! They were pretty ill informed. They also think that having RFK Jr in charge of health for the country will be a great thing, even though he is adamantly anti-vaccination and wants to dismantle the NIH and CDC… they hadn't heard that he claimed to have had a worm in his brain.

But luckily the band started playing so we could excuse ourselves to the dance floor!

We lazed around most of the afternoon then headed to dinner with Sonia and Perry again… caught the show and then headed to our room… Carm’s cold is getting worse and now I can only breathe out of one nostril… perhaps this is our last cruise… we shall see what the next few days bring.

I've been getting regular updates from Christina. The dogs will be sad to see us come home as she gets them outside playing for hours every day! No wonder they sleep from 8pm till past 6am!

Awesome!

“everything“