Day 96: Barbados

I know...every time we're here I say that Barbados is probably my favorite island of all of these, but it's true. There IS something special about this place. Add a sunny, hot day and a powdered-sugar sand beach and it's easy to imagine that Heaven is a suburb of Barbados.

Last evening we attended the 9pm Beatle Maniacs set in Club Fusion, where we still get 50 minutes of music, not the shortened 30 minutes they are now performing in the Princess Theater (grrrr.....). We arrived an hour early for seats, and the lounge seemed to fill up early. Afterwards, I returned to the cabin to do the blog posts from yesterday,but G was still out and about, hitting three more entertainment venues before turning in. Another great thing about a ship: we don't have to be on the same schedules all the time.

Still, he was already up and out on deck by 6:30am with coffee in hand to watch our 7am arrival into Barbados. I followed shortly afterwards, and we were in the dining room shortly after it opened at 7:30 for breakfast.

We had planned to walk to Lobsters Alive on Carlisle Bay beach, about a 40 minute walk from the ship, but while we were in the cabin gathering up our beach things, we saw on our cabin TV (the ship's webcam, the view from the front of the ship) another ship, the Norwegian Dawn, maneuvering into port. There was already a P&O ship, the Ventura, right behind ours, and two small clipper ships also in port. Three large cruise ships and two small ones meant that Barbados was going to be one busy island today, so, in the interest of time, we abandoned the walk in favor of a taxi to the beach.

At Lobsters Alive, we were early enough to get a front row (closest to the beach) umbrella and loungers. We had just gotten settled when a couple of rainshowers moved in, but we're wiser now, and knew that was no indication of how the day would be. Sure enough, the sun returned shortly and the day turned out to be perfect.