Freedom of the Seas Day 4

9/24/08

Day 4

I was finally able to sleep in a bed with Mike as the kids are used to the state room now...and the queen sized bed is way more comfortable than the pull out couch I've been sharing with Emmie and Chase. Last night was another great night...I only heard from Chase at 1am, 5am, and then he was up for good at 6am. We had yummy breakfast delivered to the room and when we looked out our balcony window we could see islands all along the horizon...we were destined to port at 8am in St. Thomas. Beautiful, hot, and sunny...we ate our fruit, eggs, and pastries and had some yummy orange juice...suited up and sunscreened everyone and went down to disembark. We hopped on a little shuttle over to some shops and almost convinced ourselves that we needed a new D300 for $2800...I bought some more souvenieres and then we found a taxi bus to take us to Megen Bay Beach on the other side of the island. We literally drove up and over some mountains and arrived on the other side in about a half hour. White sandy beach and turquoise waters waited for us on the other side...Emmie and I went straight into the ocean and floated around a bit...then I got Chase and dipped him in too--he loved it! We made a sand castle, took some pictures, and then Mike got us some drinks, fries and chicken fingers. There were some shady trees to sit under so the heat and the sun wasn't unbearable. I was having panic attacks on the drive up and back through the mountains on the other side of the road on tiny little streets. After our drinks and fries I nakified Emmie and dipped her in the ocean to get the sand off and put her into her clothes. Chase fell asleep on Mike's chest and Emmie was getting cranked out so back on the taxi we went and back to the boat. It was a longer morning than usual so they both crashed pretty hard. While they were sleeping Mike was off to find us something to snack on...pizza, noodles, coconut rice and some dessert squares, yum! We napped for a while until the kids woke up and then we got off the ship again and got some snacks and walked the streets of St. Thomas again since we were here. Everyone on the street seems as though they have never seen a baby (or a baby in a wrap? or maybe a baby as cute as Chase?) so they all gawk and stare.

We came back to the ship and went to Ben and Jerry's again since Emmie missed lunch and wasn't too impressed with the snacks offshore. We walked the promenade again and then stopped at guest relations...we're here with some other photographers but since we changed our dinner time we haven't really seen any of them at all. We sent them some chocolate covered strawberries and hope that they'll come with us for breakfast or lunch sometime. We'll see if they take the bait (dining with us can be hairy!) Then it was up to the room for us so Chase could take nap #3 of the day...be wary travelers who have a baby who needs three naps, it's hard! He usually is worn for the first nap while we walk around, his second nap is the same time as Emmie's so we do that one in the room, and then the third one we do right before dinner in the room so we can all get dressed. We set sail for St. Maarten at 6pm and headed to dinner soon after. We walked the promenade for a bit and looked at some cute pictures that the ship photographers got of us throughout the week. Then it was off to bed because we would be on port early the next morning.