Saint Maarten instead of Saint Barts

We arrived around 7 AM Thursday and there were already 3 other ships in port a huge Carnival ship the Celebration (~6,000 passengers), the other 2 were smaller ~2,000 passenger ships. There was also a big yacht named Artefact (owned by Mike Lazaridis, the founder of BlackBerry) waiting to dock and it did after all the cruise ships were in place.

We decided we didn’t want to do any tours and Saint Maarten is a great shopping port, so we did. I needed to restock T-Shirts as all my older ones need to be thrown away and Lisa got her annual Christmas ornament even though we won’t have a tree to put it on this year. Maybe we will get a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree and hang it on there. We took a small break from shopping to enjoy the scenery.

With all our new fortunes in hand we headed back to the ship as we entered the dock we realized how small our boat is when you compare it to the other ships in town.

So we got on board and Lisa did her normal afternoon nap and I sat on the balcony looking over that huge Carnival ship, they had a roller coaster on top. 

We were scheduled to leave at 6 and Carnival was scheduled at 5, something delayed Carnival’s departure so we were ready and took off. I was watching the sunset and trying to get a nice shot from the balcony. Just about when the sun was setting we had backed out and started turning, I got most of it but missed splashdown.

We had a nice dinner tonight and the comedian was back for his final performance and he didn’t disappoint, he had the entire theater laughing. Time to head to bed, we have an early day tomorrow arriving in San Juan, PR