March 8 – St. Thomas USVI

I would love to tell you a lot more about St. Thomas but except for a quick run into Havensight to Royal Caribbean, a shop where I always seem to have good luck with electronics, we spent the day lounging in the sun on the aft pool deck. While on shore I grabbed some liquor price brochures for DJ’s DH as he had to make an obligatory run to the store for Grand Marnier. We remained anchored in the main harbor until around 3:00 p.m.

Around 3:00 p.m. the captain repositioned the ship to Water Island (above right). This took about 30 minutes. For those of you familiar with St. Thomas harbor, this is one of the islands that protects the harbor. We anchored off Honeymoon beach. The reason for the move was to allow the water sports platform to be lowered. The water toys were brought out and swimming was allowed off the back of the yacht. A Zodiac service was established into the beach. FT and I were on the first trip in and when we landed were greeted to the sounds of Kenny Chesney. It seems the locals like his music as much as FT does. The beach was dirty and dogs were running loose so we quickly returned to the ship.

Dinner was again lovely and we remained anchored almost all night since our next stop was Tortola only a few miles away. After dinner a trip was made to the TOY for libations. The highlight was either the captain appearing in his dress uniform or . . . the playing of “It’s Raining Men” by the Weathergirls! All of the women in our group were on our feet singing and dancing while our DHs stood along the railing shaking their head at such craziness just like we were in high school and college. Then a man from California hopped up on the Office table and did his own spotlight dance while we all sang the chorus. Suddenly dollars appeared and this man’s partner was stuffing them into the dancer’s waistband … and then others who were traveling with them as well as other passengers joined in. It was such fun! After 30 minutes or so our happy band of six travelers headed to the Piano Bar around 11 p.m. to join Edgardo at the piano and of course Zoltan, master mix-master from Hungary.