St. Thomas

First port of the cruise - St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands.  Which means that our phones work (without roaming) and you can be guaranteed to find all of the standard US stores and restaurants.  Oh, and Senor Frog's.  Seriously.  I hate that damn Mr. Frog and his insidious presence at every single city south of the US/Mexico border.  But enough about my desire for more locally-owned businesses in small countries...

We didn't have anything much planned for St. Thomas so we ordered a breakfast tray to the room and took our time getting going.  By about 9:30 am we were off the ship and made our way to the Sky Ride.  You may not know this about Andrew, but he loves sky rides.  Of any sort.  On the upside - this attraction does not appear to be owned by a mass conglomerate.  We paid our $ and were on our way.  The view from the top is really beautiful. 

Sky ride selfie

Part way up!  Two ships in port today - ours & a very fancy Celebrity ship.

At the top

After the sky ride, we walked around town to see the sights.  There are some massive yachts in the harbor.  We Googled the name of one of the largest ones we saw and (good news!) it's for sale.  There wasn't a sale price associated with that, however it did indicate that you could lease it for $1 million/week (fully staffed), so imagine the purchase prices is a bit out of reach for us now that we didn't win the Powerball.

We didn't stay in town long - this is mostly a beach port and we weren't interested in that.  Back on the ship we took advantage of the fact that most passengers were on shore - we enjoyed the waterslides, played mini-golf and didn't have to wait in line for lunch.  About mid-afternoon, Andrew went back to the cabin to nap and I hit the gym.  

Dinner tonight was "formal night", though it's gotten much less formal than in the past.  We don't get particularly dressed up, but we do wear things that had to be ironed, so that's fancy, right?  After dinner we lost $20 in the casino and then sat out on the cigar lanai before heading for bed early.  We're a little crispy for our time in the sun today, and only one of us had a nap.