Grand View Inn St. George's

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Went to the masaya markets, makes you really wonder why Canadian Health organizations are so anal retentive about sanitary practices. There are pieces of meat, sitting in blazing heat, with flies all over them, everywhere. You can also buy half dead chickens, vegetarians must just be ******. Started my spanish classes as well. Fun Fact: the word Papaya in Cuba, means vagina... could get very confusing if you happen to be ...

... on a cobble stone road, through the jungle, in the 30 degree weather. Lets just say, my ass will never recover. It was so steep, on the walk down, we had to walk backwards just to spare the wear and tear on our knees. This hike made the Grouse Grind look like a highway in the prairies. But all in all, it was worth it for the experience. How many people do you know who can say: " I climbed a volcano with a ninja named Jackie Chan." Seriously, so worth it.

... the captain we would not be joining the return. He was quite nice and understood the situation.

Back in St. George, we did some shopping in Port and explored the famous spice shops. Dot's plaza had a nice selection of spice and soaps. http://mypages.spiceisle.com/dots/ As well as many street vendors offering baskets with fresh spices. I recommend buying your spices from a ...

... sky was quite blue everywhere else.

The island is 21 miles by 12 miles wide. St. George's is the capital. Approximately 107,000 people live in Grenada, 27,000 in the capital. English is the official language and an African-French patois is also spoken. As well, Grenada is the Caribbean's "Isle of Spice" one of the world's major producers of nutmeg, mace clove, cinnamon and cocoa.

As we disembarked the ...

... and inspired me to brush up a bit on my own piano playing when I get home!

Tonight was the Tropical Deck Party night, which was unfortunately rained out as we passed through a few light rain showers out at sea. The party moved to Club Fusion where we watched a huge group of people do the Chicken Dance. We must have just missed the Macarena, haha :) Then, they started a conga line and as soon as it began to approach us, we promptly fled the ...

... until our fingers look like little pink dill pickles...I managed to get a cold! It's not a bad one...one of those annoying little buggers that is more a pain in the butt than a health issue! But the heat and humidity in this part of the world magnifies everything....at the moment....10:00 am Wednesday...it is already 83 degrees, (about 30 or so C)...and 98% humidity! I just look out on the deck and I sweat! The heat and humidity is ...

... feet below the surface at high tide. We were able to float close up and personal and saw many new types of fish as well as many that we are now very familiar with. The water was clean and clear and with no crowd of other snorkelers. The fish were abundant and we often found ourselves in the middle of schools of fishes, both large and small. After a morning's snorkel at one place, Chris wanted to get out of the sun, but I wanted to do a bit more. I swam from the boat toward ...

Got lots done so far. While I planned to quit drinking... I ended up putting that off till school actually starts on monday. Went out to the club "bananas" on thursday... and well the rest is history -- I already have several nicknames... none of which I am proud of At any rate.. the next morning we got up for a "rum run" which was basically a drink fest on this boat that takes us ...

Hey everybody! We had another dinner last night with our group of 8. It was an experience, it seems the waiter may have been new and we abused him a little. No harm! Afterward, i tried to get Steve to enter the Newlywed and Not-so-Newlywed game but he didn't want too and its a good thing we didn't - we would have bombed out! The night was rough again, we are definitely feeling this ship. I did ...

... have no idea how i got home. So we got back to the liverpool lots flat at about 5am i think, completely mortalled! We ended up having two wierd americans in the flat as well coz haley stole their hat? :S beats me, but all i remember is this old american guy kept comeing to the door asking where the airport was! I was probably hallucinating or something. I have a vague memory of going round to the girls flat coz they were getting ready to catch their flight, so ...