Day 6 - St. Marteen

I had never been to St. Marteen. It is a really neat island owned half by the Dutch and half by the French. The locals refer to the various sides by the country that owns them. We did a city tour of this island where we saw a lot of European and American influences. Tourism from Americans is HUGE on all of the islands. Without it, many people would not have jobs.

Annette was our tour guide and she was so cute. She took us around and gave us the complete history of the island, buildings and cultures. We had lunch at a small cafe on the French side where I met the cutest little boy. I gave him a pack of chicklet gum and got a kiss on the cheek! He was so cute! Its official. Children are cute all over the world.

I loved hearing the French people talk. I love trying to make out their words and figure out what they are saying. I seriously wish I had paid more attention to French in college.

On our way back to the port, we stopped by a beach. One side was a nice normal beach. The other side was a NUDE beach. We were taking pictures in the parking lot and well...got an up close and personal view of an older gentleman visiting the nude beach. Seriously, we were IN THE PARKING LOT FOR THE LOVE -- KEEP IT ON THE BEACH.

Annette dropped us off in town for shopping where we met up with Princess Chrissy and Brad. We walked around and took lots of pictures of Phillipsburg. It was a great trip to St. Marteen.

Once we boarded the ship, we all played a round of putt putt and then Golfer, Princess Chrissy and Prince Ken did the rock climbing wall while Older Sister Barbie and I played in a basketball tournament of sorts. Hoosband was doing his Duck and Dog pub routine. Its unfortunate that we developed such fun habits of meeting on the sports deck at sailaway so late in the cruise. Those nights were REALLY fun.

There were several ships docked in St. Marteen. It was an awesome sailaway.