IF THIS IS SATURDAY, IT MUST BE ANTIGUA!*

January 30, 2016

I hate to admit this, but we thought we were here last week, but we didn’t remember the shopping area with the onslaught of 50 orange-shirted salesmen, peddling 2 hour island tours for $20 each.  We were here on January 17, 2013 – I have the receipt from the Gift Shop Seles on Lens Street.  And we were here in December, 2015.  But last week was Grand Turk, Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire and St. Croix.  Why we thought were in Antigua last week, I have no idea.  Neither does she.  But she thought so, too.  And I know it was she who led me astray!

We walked out to the Anglican Church which is under reconstruction.  First they found damage to the roof, then termite damage, and it has been underway at least since we were here 3 years ago.  Another several years it seems to finish it.  But it will be a beautiful House of Worship when it is done.

We never did find the Methodist Church, although we’d been there before.  Two people gave us conflicting directions, but John Wesley’s descendants were not to be found by us.

And we popped into the Antigua Museum again.  I was hoping to see Mrs. Vienna Johnson, whom we had met in 2013.  Her husband played in the Pittsburgh Pirates minor leagues in the late 1950s and played with Roberto Clemente.  She had great stories and I was hoping for more, but she wasn’t there and the woman at the desk gave me a “frog in a hail storm” look when I asked about her.  Oh well.

Great show tonight – “Get Away Island.”  We’d walked in on it late last cruise, and it was good to see it all.  The performers were the singers and dancers from the ship – The Kids as we call them – and it was a great show.  One of the parts, kind of cornball, was old fashioned 3D movies – a couple of scenes worked into the singing and dancing and viewed with the old style red and green 3D glasses (see Selfie).

Well, until tomorrow.  TTFN!

*There was a movie in the 60s about group tours of Europe called “If This is Tuesday, It Must Be Belgium” – all of it making fun of the rapid visits through a dozen different nations.  Kind of like modern day cruising?