Today was our first port of call in St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands. I’ve been to St. Thomas once before in 2000 when working for Datastream. I was even by the pier where we docked. the weather didn’t look fantastic but we wanted a beach day. We didn’t get one in the Bahamas so we decided to head off to one of the most famous beaches on the island. We got there and have lunch, then we grab some lounge chairs and just relax. It was nice, but I didn’t go into the water. The weather just didn’t seem too great and I wasn’t up for it our day at the beach was cut short when it started to drizzle. At first we thought it was going to pass, but then it started to drizzle again so we decided to call it a day.
On the way back to the boat we stopped and walked around by the shops near the entrance to the pier. We can Byberry much, MC ended up with some books to read. We found her selves back on the boat pretty early since we left the beach early. we ended up at the pool relaxing since most of that area was covered so we were protected from the weather. Our lock it looked like it stopped raining as we were settling in to lie out by the pool.
We had dinner in the dining room. It wasn’t other pretty good meal. We got some pretty fantastic photos of the ship leaving port from our patio in our cabin.
After dinner we went to the love and marriage game show. I thought it was fun last year so we decided to go. I joke previously to MC even before we got on the ship that I wanted to try to get on the show. We were honeymooners so that is one of the couples they generally look for for the game show. At the time I thought we had absolutely no chance of getting on since we were probably not willing to do any ridiculous things to make it on the show. Apparently if there’s a lot of people looking volunteer that is one of the ways they weed out who to put on the show and who not to. So when it came time for them to ask who were honeymooners we raised our hands. Then they asked how long people were married for. We been married for less than two weeks so we said so. They were couples on the ship who were even married on the ship but apparently none of them were at the game show. that means we were the most recent married couple to volunteer, so we ended up on the game show. At first I was really really surprised, then it was just like holy crap what did I volunteer us for. I wasn’t wrong though, they did make one or both of the other two couples that volunteered to do some pretty funny stuff in order to make it on stage. I guess they just don’t do it for everybody.
I’m not going to many details about the game show, because for one it would take a long time explaining it. All say is it was fun, funny, and we did not win. after the show several people said that we should’ve one because it seems like they counted the points wrong. It really didn’t matter and I didn’t even think about it, but it was interesting for several people to say something. We want to gift basket of all the prizes that you could possibly win and all of the other events on the ship. It was basically a big gift basket of swag from Royal Caribbean. We have a video of the event but I think the only people that may ever see it will be our future children.