Where am I again?

Antigua.....so funny story, our first stop in Antigua,  was in 2004 and not planned,   We had scheduled a 7 day cruise (our second!) and we were on Navigator of the Seas out of Miami.  Eastern Caribbean, St Thomas, San Juan and some other place that escapes me right now.  Nassau maybe?  We left on Saturday August 24and were scheduled to return the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, September 4. The weather was Ok in Miami, but not looking good, and this is why.......Hurricane Francis!

So, our whole trip was basically scrapped.....we had no idea where we were going or when we'd get home, but we had a whole cruise ship at our disposal.  Our 7 day cruise became 9 days, and because of the holiday weekend, we didn't miss any work.   Biggest benefit was that Royal Caribbean had booked our plane tickets so we didn't have to worry how to get home.   We first ported in Antigua on Tuesday, August 31, and St Thomas on Wed, sept 1.

Back to Antigua, this was 11-12 years ago and things have really changed.....they used to get maybe one or 2 ships a week, and now they have 2 docks and there were 4 ships in the day we were there.  So we decided not to get off this time, the town isn't really big enough for 12,000 extra people.

Unfortunately, it was also somewhat of a washout at the pool, we got multiple torrential downpours and it was cloudy....so I headed for the future cruise booking desk and booked some future cruises for my friend Pam, who wasn't even on the ship!  She and her friends got some extra on board credit to spend because I was checking with her on my iMessage on the iPad.  Too funny.

Dinner at Luminae was great and we did some people watching later at the Martini Bar.  You can tell people are starting to get tired, the bar is less crowded the later it gets every night.....

We also walked by the pool deck, and they had pulled all the chairs off and stacked them, which makes the pool deck look huge.  I will try to get a daytime shot to show the difference.