Barbados

On a side note before I get going on the Barbados post, tonight is my indoor soccer team's fall season championship game. This would be championship #5 in a row, good luck guys. I most likely will not be thinking of you, but I'll be there in spirit.

Today is Barbados. Again we docked, along with five other cruise ships. Unfortunately the pier is about 1 mile outside of downtown Bridgetown. Bridgetown being the largest city on Barbados. Barbados is actually a lot larger island with a population of 260,000 avid cricket fans. On a strange side note, we were reminded a minimum of 8 times that you could not wear any type of camouflaged clothing outside of the boat. Apparently this is a privilege reserved only for the military and they take it very seriously.

Today we booked an excursion to Malibu beach. It is the beach located and operated by the Malibu Rum Company. As we had a little time to kill before the excursion we were able to take a quick tour of a local cigar factory. We saw the entire cigar process, pretty interesting actually. This is where it all happens, myself pictured with my new pack of stogies:

Malibu beach was another great Caribbean beach. It had more waves, but that made swimming fun. We actually rented a waverunner from one of the 'beach guys' for 30 minutes today. It was fun to ride in the ocean out in the waves. We went up the coast for 15 minutes looking for turtles in the water and then turned back. We 'might' have seen a turtle once. I'm going with yes.

No beer picture today, instead here is me with a Malibu Rum punch. In the background are all the cruise ships.

This is the first thing you see as you pull up to the factory:

I did have the local beer, it was nothing special. One of the reasons why there is no picture. That and the fact that we did go to the Malibu beach it seemed a little dumb to order a beer.

View from our cabin as we were getting ready to depart. You think that this cruise line would plan their itinerary better so as not to have two ships in the same port?

Tonight we went back to teppanyaki again. We met an English couple from London at dinner.

Tuha note:
The Malibu beach is pretty fun but it does not need to be an entire day commitment. Our London friends did a bike adventure that we considered. We didn't do it as the itinerary mentioned a mountain, and Paty + Mountain + Bike = Bad day for Chris. It turns out you start at the top of the mountain and have little if any uphill climbs and during the tour you stop at the Malibu factory. Double Bonus.