Being the early bird that I am, I was up and checking out the TV to see what the report looked like. Having no idea what it meant I hoped it would allow us to dock.
As I changed the channels I noticed there were already chair hogs out.
So I got ready, grabbed my camera and went up to the lido deck to get some pics of the towel animal hogs.
Since I was already up there I waited till the Blue Iguana was open to grab breakfast for the rest of the crew.
Eggs Benedict for myself, along with a bagel.
Looking at his tv view makes we wonder why the captain couldnt navigate to get us to Grand Turk, as he was doing a GREAT job of getting us THROUGH the middle of an Island. No excused from now on Captain Alcaras.
Weather looked good.
I have no idea if the speed is good so we will just assume the Captain knows how fast he should be going while cutting across land.
As we started eating an announcement came over speaker system... Medical Team to Lido Deck STAT. I knew that couldnt be good.
Boys finished eatting... breakfast in bed, how nice.
I grabbed the fun times, my rumchatta (and coffee) and headed for the balcony.
did some quick reading while we pulled into port.
Boys got ready quickly then joined us to in time to see us pull into port.
So glad my yacht made it to Aruba.
Pictures just dont do the colors justice of how it truly looks.
We made our way down eventually and grabbed a cab, todays excursion was the Jolly Pirate. A Sail, snorkle and swing boat ride. http://www.jolly-pirates.com/
As you walk off the plank you go though a small port type shopping area before getting to the main street to catch a cab.
I dont remember how much the cab was, but I want to say no more then $20 for the 4 of us.
Someone was still tired.... party animal cant hang the next day.
Uhh I see pitstop on the way back lol.
15mins later (more or less) we made it to MooMba Beach. Now here is where I will offer you a tip. If you are going with a group **STAY TOGETHER** wait for eachother. Do not check in or pay (we pre paid online prior to leaving on our vacation) without each group. So if you have 4 families going make sure 1 member of each is together in line to check in. If no you will be split up on the boats. Our cruise thread had a lot of people doing this. We thought we could just get one one boat together, and we tried but they wouldn't let us switch, as you checked in they just fill up boat 1 then boat 2.
As we waited for the rest of our boat to fill (as we were the 2nd boat and the 1st had already set sail) we all were talking about the Medical Alert this morning. To which we learned from the nurses on our thread had assisted in the incident. Both of them (one works ER trauma and the other in ICU) were eating breakfast on the lido with their families, and when a man went into a distressed situation they were one of the 1st to assist. They stated a couple other nurses ran to help also then the medical team came. They were then asked to leave after giving their statements to officials.
It put everyone is a dark spot after, feeling guilty that we were going to have fun and there was a family in the middle of an emergency. Suffice to say no one needed a drink more than those nurses.
They loaded us into a larger size dingy.
Then off we went to get onto our Pirate ship!
NEXT UP: Ahoy Mateys
