Freedom of the Seas Day 5

9/25/08

Day 5

We woke up again to a slow moving ship and some islands out our balcony window...the tropics are really a beautiful site to wake up to. Emmie rolled over and saw the light out the window and looked at me and whispered, "Want to watch the sunrise?" So we went out to the balcony while the boys were sleeping and snuggled on the deck watching the island go by. Breakfast came to the room at 7:30am and by that time Mike and Chase were up. We packed all of our beach things up for the day, put the babies in their carriers and off the boat we went at 8:30am. St. Maarten at first glance had a much prettier port and shopping area and we took a nice water taxi over to uptown and walked around for a bit...sadly it was super hot and we were all a little bit crabby and tired. Emmie ate a super melty ice cream while Chase nursed and promptly fell asleep...we slowly moved on and bought some more little souvenirs and walked up along the beach looking for a place to sit. There were islanders trying to sell us things left and right which on top of the heat left Mike and I super crabby and we ended up squabbling with each other over getting a seat or not and looking like angry tourists we settled on a set of chairs and an umbrella so that Emmie and I could swim a bit and we could build a sandcastle. There was no treeline at St. Thomas and the water dropped off a bit more and wasn't as clear and clean. We stayed for about a half hour and headed back to the ship for some naps.

When the babies woke up I put Chase up in a back carry and we sat at the pizza place for some late lunch--it is really funny the reaction you get from people seeing a baby in a wrap. I'm so used to it that it leaves me wondering why people are staring and smiling. Next Emmie and I went in the pool for a while while Chase and Daddy went back to the room for a nap. We tried all of the sprinkler things while it got darker and then we went to Johnny Rockets for dinner...they let us eat outside and Emmie made friends with a bunch of the wait staff there telling all of them that it was "wiggling" in a high pitched voice and showing them her signs. We ended up eating back on the balcony of our room by the time the food came and Chase was cranky (story of our dinners here on the boat) and Emmie sucked down a whole strawberry shake by herself. She got to watch The Little Mermaid while I put Chase to sleep cuddling her own Ms. Mermaid doll.