Allamanda Beach Hotel Barbados Hastings

... to Rhonda and her advice, we also visited St Nicholas Abbey, which was lovely…..and in the evening treated ourselves to dinner at The FishPot (excellent) after lunch at Nanika (no wonder we piled on the pounds this holiday)!

All in all, a most relaxing and enjoyable end to our Caribbean adventure…..the R&R necessary to ensure a calm approach to our 44 hour journey back here to Surabaya!

... his hardest to get me on a plane, however my not acting fast enough led to a very good ticket for $500US slipping away. So I pulled some strings, and I'm now going to Toronto direct on Wednesday I'm bummed out like mad that I can't go to NYC and possibly not even Detroit, but I guess it just happens sometimes. Next time I guess.. But at least now I can go to Canada! Wednesday can't come fast enough.

This is my third day trying to get out of the island on standby. I was 38/47 on the list earlier. So many families of staff members using their tickets for holiday.. It's insanity. It seems to be impossible to get out of the Caribbean right now! Hopefully I'll figure out something soon, otherwise I may have to cancel parts of my itinerary.. :(

We took our sorry selves to Grantley Adams Airport to send the kids home at 4:30 A.M. after partying until midnight. I wanted to take a picture of a couple of the girls ~ shower caps, basketball shorts and their "beaters" as they said 'cuz that's how they roll in Columbus (Ohio, where they're from). Made me smile.

Last breakfast coming up here ~ off to grab eggs before the ...

I think you'll be able to access all of my travel pod information from this website. It's not very user friendly, or I'm being blonde.

I hope you're both doing fine and know your mom loves you and misses you! Home tomorrow night at midnight. Not really ready to leave the beauty here. It's been an awesome time...hope you can catch the flavor of it.

Looking forward to catching up,
Love,
mom

grrrr...dealing with internet connections is a challenge here! I just lost my entire Sunday blog that I had written :(
But, what about those Lakers? What a great OT game!

Today was church and dancing ~ is it okay to use the fact that I'm still on CA time as an excuse that I fell back to sleep after my wake up call. This is not good when someone's picking you up at 6:45 AM (2:45 AM in Cali) and you drag ...

This is a challenging day to share...so many impressions, experiences.

The bird who stole my breakfast while I was getting my coffee

The gentle trade winds have decided to kick it up a notch or ten. Sitting on the beach chair, staring at the sea and it starts to rain the wind blows and the sun shines ~ all at the same time. I've been in Florida when it rains and shines, but add the wind blowing around like a hurricane ...

... the church that dated almost five hundred years ago. It was kind of creepy walking all around them, but this is what made the whole place intriguing and captivating.

We stopped for while along the ocean to admire big huge boulders right on the shore. It was absolutey beautiful seeing them.

Our next stop was at the Highland Adventure Center where we sipped a complimentary soft drink. It was relaxing and we enjoyed the view once ...

... is so beautiful. I just couldn't believe my surroundings. At the bottom of the ocean, the corals were spectacular. Words cannot describe beauty. You have to see it to believe it. What a fantastic experience that I am not about to forget soon.

After the snorkel off we went to another beach where we relaxed and swammed for a while before returning to the ship.

Thankful for snorkeling,

Mo