SeaDreaming: Our Next Journey - December 13

Days 1 and 2
As a note all passengers are referred to by their Cruise Critic monikers in order to make an effort at protecting the innocent or guilty or revelers, or whatever! Crew members are referred to by name so that they can get all the recognition that they are due for the wonderful job that they all did taking care of us. Special thanks to Capt T, Amy, Christophe, Jamie, Zoltan, Memed, Merza, June, Chad, and Super Mario!
(Many thanks to Frequent Traveler for letting me use her material to refresh my memory and save me a lot of time)

Home and St. Thomas, Saturday, December 12th.

It’s time for the journey to begin. We (myself, FT, DD, and DS) will be off to the airport in Charlotte within the hour. (The predicted bad weather did not arrive before we left) We were soon winging our way to Saint Thomas and an afternoon of shopping. Everyone is excited, in fact we have two twenty somethings bouncing off the walls. The trip from CLT was uneventful - other than the fact that FT's rollerboard that goes in the overhead all over the world wouldn't fit in US Air plane to St. Thomas. No big deal. checked it and it made it there.
We arrived in Saint Thomas around 2:15 p.m. and after a quick cab ride to the Marriott Frenchmen's Reef we checked in and the children and I grabbed a cab to town for shopping. I was in the market for a new DSLR and since DD celebrated an important birthday while traveling she got to pick her own presents.
We enjoyed dinner at the hotel and then spent some time at a great new Rum bar at Frenchmen's Reef-that is sleek, very comfy, and has great view of St. Thomas and the harbor.