22-Jan 🇧🇧 Barbados (Katie's 43rd Birthday)

Home time, after a fab, Turtle swimming Barbados Birthday, and last night the resident band 'Steele', wanted to thank us for being regular dancers each night while they played, so they gave us both band T-shirts. Thanks for all the birthday wishes for Katie, she has had a lovely day 👍🇧🇧🌴🐢

Katie wanted to redo my trip from yesterday, but we took a taxi, and paid $30 each... even though they said they wanted $40 each!

And I got some pictures too... the best moment was when a turtle came out of nowhere and swam up to us both, and we were both able to stroke it, really special!

And I had bread to sprinkle around when we swam at the sunken ship, so even more fish !

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The big bags were packed the night before and left in the corridor for collection, so when leaving the ship it was carry on/hand luggage only. 

While were were allocated seats next to an old lady, the three seats behind us were empty, to the old lady and her two gentlemen friends all moved and sat together, so Katie was able to lay down across three seats with her head on my lap.

Thankfully the plane home was only 30 min late, arriving at 7:30am (but felt like 2:30am) rather than the 3 hour delay on the way out.

It was lovely to be chauffeured home by Amber, who had even brought us both a bottle of water to have in the car for the drive home. 

21-Jan 🇧🇧 Barbados

Last stop, and home tomorrow.  Snorkeling today, and saw/touched a turtle 🐢, plus saw loads of fish at a shipwreck, plus a large ray and a 'batfish' which was cool. 

I had a Flower Delivered for Katie - seeing as we have to leave the Cabin by 9am, I did it a day early

I then left Katie on board to soak up some sun and Uni Knowledge

The neighbouring Cruise liner was testing the tenders... they looked like ducks swimming around

And I took a walk to the nearby Carlise Bay, I spotted some cool ship names and Ships

I was hoping to go snorkelling, so when I saw the following boat, I knew I'd found what I was looking for. They asked for £30, but accepted the £19 I had in my wallet :)

What was extra coll, was that there were mostly locals on board.

The Ship even had a slide 

20-Jan 🛳️ at Sea

This was out Last 'Ship at Sea', and although we were thinking about trying to get ready for the jet lap of travelling home, I also wanted to get up before the Sun, and see a Caribbean Sunrise.  It was quite cloudy,  so after taking a picture every min. for 10min before and after the sunrise was due, I needed to wait even longer before the sun popped into view.  I knew it was coming, because the top side the clouds nearest me were illuminated, with a pink glow on the edge facing the sun.

It was a nice quiet time on deck, and I'm glad I got to see it :)

New pictures in the gallary always made me smile.. again these foot prints are tiny paintings of people on the beach, you can even see the shadows in the sea.

This is a sample menu for the day - but there was even more to choose from at the buffets. We would always make a dash after seeing a show to get another pudding before they closed at 9:30pm

Tonight we though we'd hit the Manhattan for the 'Floor Fillers' disco.  I'm not sure that just me counts as filling the floor?

19-Jan 🇬🇩 Grenada

We booked a river tube adventure today, so after winding our way across the island, we got to a tropical rain forest, and then; floated, spun and bounced down the river. Katie needed a new tube before the end, as hers went flat!

18-Jan 🇱🇨 St. Lucia

We took a long (7.5hr) tour today. First up the coast via catamaran, stopping off for a swim, where we did some snorkelling (lots of fish 🐟🐠 when sprinkling breadcrumbs), and then into the Volcano 🌋, and lots of scenic views of the Pitons and a botanical gardens and waterfall.

17-Jan 🇦🇬 Antigua

We booked a horse ride along the beach, is was such a shame because the waves were a bit strong to go swimming with the horses 😟🌊🐎

What is wrong with shoe shop?

Silent Disco Time

Spot the Difference between the apple pies

16-Jan 🇻🇬 Tortola, British Virgin Islands

Last night we had a fabulous sunset for our black tie night, saw a comedian, a Show, and ballroom dancing.  Today we went via taxi/safari bus to a beach, where we enjoyed reading a book together while bathed in sunshine... Did we mention that we have had a tropical shower everyday on holiday, quite refreshing today 😎🌞

15-Jan 🛳️ at Sea in the Caribbean

While chilling on the deck, I like to do some art. My go to holiday style has been pastels, but my Cottrell Family Christmas present (from Jasper)  included a ScrawlBox, with water colours, so I packed that for the trip, and it has been fun, especially as I haven't had to wait long for the paper to dry 😎