Rum punch and downpours

So my party cruise in Grenada on Friday was loads of fun. I drank way too much rum punch and almost missed my first show! I went to take a nap after rehearsal and set my alarm, but slept straight through the alarm, 4 phone calls from the bass player and the cabin steward coming in to straighten the room out. Luckily my roommate came 5 minutes before the show and woke me up. Fortunately there aren’t any party cruises in Europe, so I should be safe from having a repeat scare!

The cruise was loads of fun and I even got to dance with a very spunky Argentinian passenger – she reminded me a lot of my surrogate grandmother, Julie. I also partook in the limbo with the steel drum band and have pictures and videos that will hopefully be up someday.

Yesterday was my last stop in Barbados and I did some shopping in Bridgetown and relaxed on a beach. I went to dinner with Kalya and Ramon and had a curried potato roti – a roti is sort of like a burrito, they stuff pastry with all sorts of different ingredients – mine had curried potatoes, soy channa, peas, and a pepper sauce – very tasty! I also had ice cream as we had fun scrounging all our Barbados Dollars together to use every last penny. We took a walk to the beach after and got caught in a complete downpour. The most rain we’ve seen the entire trip. We eventually found a taxi to take us back to the ship, but we were soaking wet. Just 5 more Caribbean Islands and then I’ll be on my transatlantic voyage to Europe!

Oh, I watched the Kite Runner last night. The book is definitely better (which seems to always be the case), but I thought they did a great job adapting it to the screen. I recommend watching it.