At sea

It’s the last day of the cruise. K band I are sitting outside on the Promenade Deck enjoying the calm sapphire seas, 73 degree temp. and warm breeze. It’s all the sweeter because we know we are heading back to gray skies and Arctic temperatures tomorrow. Yesterday was what I think of as an archetypical island day. We landed on the tiny island of Grand Turk to crystal clear blue waters and sunny skies. Bob spent some time on the beach but left K and me so we could go into the water. It was sandy and then we walked onto flat coral and could see fish swimming around our feet. After the beach K and I had a couple hours so we parked ourselves at the bar/pool/restaurant at Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville. I imagine it to be a tame version of spring break and thought she should experience it. It was packed with people from our ship and the Carnival ship that also had docked. There were a lot of college kids and twenty-somethings on both ships – quite different from our previous cruises of old people. So the DJ devised contests to pit the two ships against each other. Carnival won all. There was the beer drinking contest and then the “strongman” contest. Six buff bucks took turns having the same bikini-clad girl (a Carnival hussy) lie on their backs while they did push-ups. The winner was able to do 31 push-ups but then the Adonis DJ was persuaded to take off his shirt and compete and he did 33 pushups with the girl on his back. Ah youth! The weather was perfect last night so we watched Jim Carrey in “Yes Man” . This ship has a huge drive-in type screen on the upper deck. There are hot tubs and a pool and a bar. We had lounge chairs, the porters brought out blankets to protect us from the evening chill, delivered warm cookies, drinks and popcorn to us. The sea was calm and it was a perfect evening.