St. Thomas is our port of call for today. We have been here many times, so we did not really have any specific plans for the day. Initially, this was to be our first “day off” after visiting four ports in a row that we had never been to before. Unfortunately, since we had not done much yesterday due to my cold, we have already had a “day off”, so we could have had more of a plan for today that we did. I was feeling better, but still not 100%, so we slept in until about 8:30 AM, much later than the ship’s arrival at 7:00 AM.
We went to eat some breakfast in the buffet and discussed what we wanted to try and do today. We knew that we needed to at least go downtown and visit a liquor store to purchase a bottle of Seagram’s VO for the next cruise since we will not be on the all inclusive beverage package for those ten days, and need to stock up.
We were berthed at the newer pier in St. Thomas at Crown Bay, so we needed to take an open truck “taxi” into town. Since it was only another $1 per person to go over to the old pier at Havensight, we spontaneously opted to head that way instead of stopping at downtown so that we could ride the aerial tram to the top of the mountain for some good pictures. It was a beautiful day in St. Thomas, and we had not ridden the tram since visiting here several cruises ago.
In addition, the St. Thomas K-mart is near this area, within walking distance, and we needed to purchase some supplies there.
The tram ride was nice, and the views form the top were really great. Last time we had done this there were some trails to walk where you could see some of the local flora, but we did not see any trails open this time. It appeared that there was more restaurants, shops and bars at the top than we had remembered, maybe they had displaces the nature walk trails.
We did not stay long, and headed for the bottom to walk to the K-mart to pick up some personal items. Afterward, we were quite hot, so we decided to ride the tram to the top once more to cool off in the breezes at the top. The wrist band we purchased for the tram was good for the entire day, for unlimited rides, so we rode up once more, just because we could.
After the tram ride, we took another “taxi” to the downtown area to visit some shops and purchase our Seagram’s VO. Once the liquor was purchased, we headed to our favorite jewelry store, Trident Jewelers, just to look and see what they had. Stephanie had wanted to look at diamond bands to enhance her wedding band and engagement ring set, and we had actually looked at some last time we were in St. Thomas, but purchased other items instead.
In the end, we both made some purchases today, they had some great prices since it was the end of the season. It was interesting because we had met a couple from Seneca, SC who had both been teachers at Clemson, and we happened to run into them in the Trident store. They were there with another couple from SC, and we all made purchases, and spent time together at the store. As was the case last time we visited, the jewelry store offered refreshments, this time they offered us “Bushwhacker’s” instead of beer that we had last visit.
We all had a good time, and I am sure the refreshments helped convince us to make some purchases, although the folks at Trident are really friendly, and do offer us great prices since we have made purchases from them before.
We finished our shopping there and took a taxi back to the pier and arrived just a few minutes before the 4:30 PM “All Aboard” time. It was a fun day of shopping.
We took our belongings back to the room and then headed for the Seaview Bar for some refreshments. We were both tired from the day in St. Thomas, so we did not even go back to the room again before dinner, we just went to the buffet in our same clothes from today. The buffet was really good, they had made to order Mongolian Barbecue, and it was quite tasty. We stopped off at the Vines wine bar for a to go nightcap, it was only about 8:30 PM, but we were tired. We headed back to the room to relax and watch some of the first run movies on the TV.
It had ended up being a nice day in St. Thomas.
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