Teena in Toronto

Friday, 8 February 2008

At sea ... heading to San Juan

Today was an "at sea" day. We're heading back to San Juan. It's been a busy week so it was nice to have a day to sleep in and not worry about rushing to be anywhere.

Sister Sarah and I went as high and as far forward as we could. It was really really windy out there!

Sister Sarah

Everyone was enjoying their last hours of sunshine and heat.

There was ice carving at 3:00pm.

Before

After ... an angelfish and an eagle

Our last hours in the sun ... we spent the afternoon by the pool.

Sister Sarah

BTW, here's our room. We had a basic inside stateroom, which I thought was fine for the amount of time we spent there.

We wanted to catch the sunset ... but we were too late.

Sarah and I
(the wind kept blowing up my dress ballooning it out!)

We had supper in the Caribe Cafe (buffet) with Linda and Ramona. The theme was Creole.

Then we watched a comedian and saw the finale of Princess Pop Star.

Thursday, 7 February 2008

Aruba

Sister Sarah, Ramona, Sandi and I did the Banana Bus tour.

We started off with a 90 minute hike in Arikok National Park, the boundries of which encompose 18% of Aruba's land mass.

There were tons of cacti, goats, aloe vera, rocks, lizards and many different plants/trees ... very different from what we see in Toronto. Our guide was very knowledgeable and told us holistically how the different leaves and berries could be used.

The last climb back to the bus

Then we spent some time at Baby Beach.

Sister Sarah

We browsed in some shops before we went back to the boat.

Sister Sarah headed to the pool. I wanted some quiet time so sat on the Promenade Deck (deck seven) in a deck chair, read my book with a cold beer and watched as we said good-bye to Aruba. Others did the same.