Carole and I did an 8 day cruise thru the Iles of the Saints and returned home late last night. We flew to San Juan Puerto Rico and hopped on board the Carnival Cruise ship Fascination. Here we are on the island of, what else, of St. Thomas at the highest point on the island at the Banana Daiquiri shop. The hat I'm holding is a Do-It hat.
On Weds of the cruise we got on board a deep sea craft and spent 6 hours on 6000 feet of blue searching for blue and white Marlin. We had three decent follows and a couple of short hits but no fish hooked up. What a great way to spend a day. Just the chases we were treated to were unreal. After the fishing we returned to St Lucia and did some shopping before we were off again.
On Friday we spent the day on a black sand beach on St.Kitts. It was hotter than heck so I stayed under the roof of the Cabana at the diner. The beer was cold and I chowed down on conch fritters. Conch shells are those shells you hold up to your ears to hear the waves and the critter inside is like a super sized snail. Cleaned they are pretty tasty when cooked up.
It was tough to come home and see snow but at least its come down a lot. The weeks weather forecast is super too so more should be leaving fairly fast and then rain by the weekend to help even more.
We had a great time but of course it went too fast. Still, its good to be back home.
