Good Start to the Caribbean...

I know what your thinking, she's already up to her old habits of not updating you often enough...I'm sorry, but you know when you have so many port days, and the chrsitmas season it's hard to get internet time in!

Okay, so what's happened???? SO MUCH! I've been out in St Lucia - a wonderful place to eat there called the Coal Pot, you have to take a water taxi across the bay to it, and it's lovely right on the water - a little steep pricewise, but it's SO good. I've been on the Summit when we met it in St Maarten, looks a lot like my last ship, but it was nice to visit some people I knew from Infinity there. I also went out, to my current most favorite place - BARBADOS! OMG, it's so beautiful, we went to a beach (it was dec 23rd, for those of you stuck in the snow storm then!) I spent hours in the water, got a bit sunburnt - oops...and it was so relaxing. I felt 100 miles away from the ship...I've also been out to the terminal for a bit of shopping in Granada, I'm told the town is rather eeewww, so if going out there we should be taking a taxi to the beach...went out by myself in Aruba, cute town, expensive, but I liked it...When we turned around in San Juan for the new years cruise, I got to go out and shop at the American Plaza, Such a nice mall, can't wait to go back!

On the cruise we are on now, so far i've only been out in Curacao, which is also a really cute town, very dutch. We ended up having bad food there, but it was new years day, and there really wasn't much open to select from...but still nice to get out.

Okay, what else is new? Onboard - we had a good christmas, not too christmassy feeling but i think that made me miss home less, cause it just didn't feel like it. They requested Officers to come and serve the food, and so I helped out with that, it was really fun. Then they had a party for us in one of the guest lounges, the music stunk, but it was nice to get to meet some new people and chat with the friends I've already made. I've made some good friends here already, so I'm very settled and happy. I'm already one month onboard! I can't believe it's been that long already! I also met a new man on christmas, we didn't get to chat much but I definitely liked him from the moment we met and he seemed to have liked me as well...New Years was a great party, we joined the guests on the pool deck for the countdown, and had a couple of drinks before heading to the crew party where I met up with Patric again, I had such a nice time, dancing, and getting to know Patric.

Today, I had a bit of a date with Patric, we were supposed to go out in Barbados, but he's got special cleaning tonight for the USPH inspection, and was quite tired, and felt if he went out he would be too tired, so we met up here on the crew outside deck to chat and get to know one another better, he's a very sweet man. He's from South Africa, and he is also on his 2nd contract, just came onboard one cruise before I did.

I also got some work news today, well, it's news for now, but of course there's lots of time between now and then, so things could change. I am scheduled to leave Galaxy after it closes on March 18th, and go back to the Infinity. So, come the end of May I could be back to visiting you all at home every thursday evening! Although the times are better, we arrive at 3pm and leave at 9pm! Still a short time, but at least it`s not a midnight!

I am so happy on this contract so far, it feels even better than the last right now, and I can`t wait to see what happens next! We will be going to St Lucia, Dominica , St Kitts and Tortola over the next few days so I hope to get out in most of them and catch some of the sites! You`ll notice that I`ve posted a bunch of pictures today as well!

Miss you all! Please write soon!

Love,
Tabs