GRENADA

Man, I am forgetting about this vacation and my memories will be gone before long so I have to get this finished. My goal is to chronicle this island tonight and then finish up over the weekend. I have all of next week off....yea!! I love islands. It is just something unexplainable until you have been to one. I love the foliage. These first pictures are Grenada. The only thing that I knew about Grenada was from when I was a lot younger and our government stepped in there because the Cubans had taken over their government and they were holding American students hostage. That was in the early eighties. Before the cruise I learned that it is the "Spice Island." It was beautiful and the smell on this island was amazing.

We stopped at this little store type thing and watched this "friend" of the bus driver do a demo with all of the spices. We bought spice necklaces which I put up in my kitchen and can never smell. Isn't this an awful picture...but hey, what can you do...that is what we look like!!
This is a view from the ship. It rained a lot that day but the rain didn't deter us. We did a tour of the island and then went to the beach.
We had to be tendered in because the tide was too high because of the weather. Here are two cute chicks waiting at the boat dock.
More cute chicks.
Just a random picture to show how pretty the island was.
This was the demo guy at the little store. They sold a lot of boxed spices here and it smelled great.
The flowers are absolutely the prettiest I have ever seen.
There was a guy at this little store who was walking around with this really tall fruit hat on his head and wanted everyone to take his picture and then charged you two bucks for it. He actually followed you around and kept asking you to take his picture. It was really annoying. I got bored and went back to the bus to wait for the group and while I was in the bus, I took this picture of the little shack so I could remember it. If you look very, very closely you can maybe make out the guy with the fruit on his head. When he saw me take the picture, he ran over to the window of the bus and DEMANDED that I pay for the picture that I had taken of him. I told him that I wasn't taking his picture and that I was just taking a picture of the shack. Again, he demanded that I pay him. I told him NO....very firmly. He walked off after calling me some name that I am sure meant "sexy lady." Isn't this just the cutest little building though?
This was a picture of a waterfall that we stopped at. They had some divers who would climb to the top of it and then dive in. It was pretty impressive. It is much bigger than this picture shows it to be.
I loved this building. The bus driver told us that the people of Grenada are very thankful to Americans for liberating them in the eighties. It is nice to be appreciated somewhere!! This wasn't the only sign that we saw thanking America.
This was the beach that we went to. I loved this tree. It quickly became our clothes hanger. As I said before, the weather was not great which made the snorkeling not great because the water was too stirred up. The water was still warm though and I immediately got right in. I love warm ocean water and not even the weather can deter me from enjoying it.
Just some random beach beauties.
A picture of our church. It was fun to see our church on the different islands and it was kind of cool that the bus drivers were good about taking us by them and cool that they even knew where they were.
Back on the tender and heading back to the ship, I got one last picture of Grenada. I loved that place.