New Years – 2018 – Day 4

Beautiful St. Thomas and again temperatures in the 80’s.  We are blessed.

We had not plans so we got off the ship at about 9am and walked into the shopping area by the pier.

We were at a new port in St. Thomas that is exclusively Royal Caribbean’s or which Celebrity is part, so we did not know what to expect.  After looking around and not finding anything very interesting, we took a jitney into the main town.

We explored it for a while and then took a jitney back to the ship.

At this time it was 11:30am so we went up onto the deck for some sun.

At 12:30pm we met Jeff and Vera on the back of the ship for lunch.  Several years ago before we knew them, they had met a casino manager who had been promoted and is now the Guest Relations Manager for this ship.  His wife and 2 children are with him over the holidays and they all joined us for lunch.

Then it was back up to the deck for more sun until about 3:30pm when it started to rain a little so we went to the cabin to clean up and get ready for the New Years Eve celebration.  

Tonight, for New Year’s Eve, everyone was in a party mood, so it was just really a lot of fun.

We went to the 7pm show before dinner and it was a cast production number that was very good.

Then we went to our restaurant called Blu for dinner and had a great dinner with Jeff & Vera.

Of course, next was the casino where Ed did very well and Barb broke even so it was a very good night in the casino.

New Years Eve was amazing.  It looked like the entire ship, which is over 2,000 people were jammed onto the pool decks for the New Years party which started at 11:30pm.  There was also a full moon out and it was a fun way to celebrate New Year’s.  Then probably 5 minutes after midnight, it started to rain so we headed down to the casino to wish the staff a happy new year’s also.

Tomorrow is a sea day and it will be fun just relaxing around the ship

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Bye the way, the pictures are not a good as we would like them as the photo editing program that I used is not available now that I updated browsers.  Sorry about that.

To all our family – please know we are thinking of you all and have a Happy, Happy New Year to one and all.  Hugs and Love – Mom and Ed.

Just have to shop here!!

Our ship

Getting ready for some sun - note the lotion on the knees.  Too hot for oil yet.

Ready to party on New Year's Eve