BLOGGING BONNIE'S BACK

Good Morning – Wednesday February 3, 2016

Well, did the ground hog see his shadow yesterday. I don’t know but it was HOT and sunny in St. Kitts. We got up, had breakfast and David studied for his St. Maarten talk. By 10:30 were off to explore St. Kitts. And believe or not we were not parked in the cargo dock. Whoopee. We were parked beside the Royal Caribbean Jewel of the Sea and way across we could see another ship and it was parked in the cargo dock. Haha!

We walked in through all the tour hawkers and the monkey holders (for a fee you can hold a monkey and have your picture taken) headed to find the Catholic church, Methodist church and the Anglican church. We were successful. The Catholic church is easy to find and it was open today and we entered. The other two were not so easy. But after wandering we finally found the Methodist church and it was closed today. It is located right next to the large soccer stadium. But we looked around the grounds. It is a beautiful old church. After walking around a couple of back streets and blocks we were finally able to find the front of the Anglican church and it was open. We went in. It has a bell and clock tower. There are very narrow steps up to the top of the tower which you can go up if you want. I didn’t. David started but came back down because they were so narrow, and if he had met another person, someone would have had to walk backwards.

All the churches were beautiful. We took a lot of pictures and a bought a postcard from the Anglican church showing the front and the tower. I also got a pamphlet with the history of the church.

We then headed back to the shopping area. I wanted to get a t-shirt for me. In my packing I did not bring as many shirts as I thought I had. Got a very nice one. I really wanted one without the island name but that just wasn’t possible.  While we were walking looking for the churches we passed a local bakery on one of the back streets and bought a drink. The bread and sweet rolls and fried pies smelled so good! But we resisted.

Well, it was hot and after searching unsuccessfully for Mountain Dew cans we returned to the ship. It was after 12:30 and lunch time. After dropping our stuff off in the room we headed up to Lido. I had a salad and David had a cheeseburger. I stayed a while and had some ice cream then headed to the room for a nap because I was tired.

I took a short nap and at 3:00 headed to arts and crafts to pick up the craft of the day. It was a pack to make a journal. Everything you needed included. After getting mine, I headed to the Butterfly lounge to go to the cooking show that started at 3.  I thought he would be cooking something different today but he made the same 2 dishes from yesterday. He is a local restaurant owner and chef from St. Maarten and he was cooking, selling his $45 cook book and advertising a special tour to shop with him, have lunch with him, and take a steel drum lesson all for $129.99 per person. We thought we might get a free tour, but Katie couldn’t get it arranged.

David’s St. Maarten talk follows his so he was about 4:30 getting started because they have to tear everything down. But he got started and we had a good crowd. There was a new tech and he was late! And not as good as the old one. As David finished his talk a guy came walking in and headed down to the stage carrying a lap top and pulling a case. I saw him going toward the stage and headed to where David’s computer was plugged in and saw a disaster about to happen. This guy who was the shopping tour guy just took a hold of the cable which was still attached to David’s computer behind the curtain and started yanking on it. Fortunately I was able to alert David and he was able to rescue his stuff. Very rude dude.

Well it was back to the room and dress for supper and off to supper. We were a few minutes late and our dinner companions were all ready there. Had a nice supper, went off to the PG comedy show and then to the show in the Taj Mahal at 9:15. I was not impressed it was a magician of sorts and I did not like his stuff at all.

Well, it is my time to shower. So in just a little while we will be off to breakfast and a short trip to St. Maarten so I can get our Pastor his bottle of hot sauce.