Morning Photos
Today is Friday, 2/4/2005
So, we walk through the shops at the dock area. This is a very clean and pleasant shopping area, they have a steel band playing right at the entrance to the pier. It is a very festive and welcoming environment they have built here. Every thing looks brand new, clean and shiny; maybe it is brand new.
I do not find a camera that I want to buy. I am shopping for a new one for the world cruise. I want more than 4x optical zoom and I also want it smaller and lighter than the Olympus I am using now. This may be a hard combination to find, but I have months, so I can keep looking.
That done we get in a cab line. We get jammed full-in, 14 to a van, for a $3/pp, 3 minute ride to the absolute closest point on Front St. to the docks. When we were approached by the people making cab assignments, Debbie told them we wanted to go to the museum and each of the 3 people involved, said yes, Front St. OK. We can walk, it is just the principle of the thing. But, everyone is grumbling, they got dumped where they did not ask to go. Now we know how it works from the docks, but there did not appear to be any other option than walking because the water taxis are not running today.
We find a T-shirt shop fairly quickly and I get 2 for me and 1 for the guy who drove us to the airport and Debbie finds one with a map of the Caribbean on it. 4 for $14, good deal, we got all the right sizes and all are 100% cotton. Debbie is looking for something for birthday presents for the 2 boys who are growing up next door to us. She finds some beach towel/beach bag things in the openair market and we think they will be good for them, we know they visit their grandfather at the beach. We look and look for the museum, we have the address from 2 sources and it is shown in the same spot on 2 different maps, but we do not find it where it should be, nor do we stumble on it anywhere else! Mystery. Two days, two museums not seen. We do walk over to the beach and it looks very nice but I am not willing to go to the ship and back to here to enjoy it. We agree we will spend some time at the ship's pool this afternoon. We walk around a bit more, walk through a casino and decide that we have seen enough. It is very sunny and hot and crowded here today. We take a cab alone back to the ship for the same price as the ride over.
