9.13

Today I had some time to go exploring in Barbados. After fending off thousands of offers to take a taxi, I walked along the water for about 20 minutes until I reached the town of Bridgeport (I think). The town is very European (as it was settled by the English). The cars are mostly European brands and they drive on the opposite side of the road as we do in America (and they love traffic circles). The streets and buildings also have that close together European feel. 

After I reached the town I continued to walk because I was looking for a beach someone had told me about where a lot of crew members hang out. Well once I walked into the town I couldn't figure out how to get back out to the water as I kept running into little canals and inlets but not the actual coast line, so I just walked around and soaked in the surroundings. There were bridges and draw bridges all over the place and I enjoyed watching all of the water traffic. As I turned around and made my way back towards the ship, I stopped into a "drug store" because I'm running low on soap. Well I'm still running low on soap because I wasn't about to pay the prices that these stores were asking. It was 12 USD for a bottle of body wash!! I could buy an overpriced cheeseburger in St. Maarten for that price! With fries! I know at many of these retailers you heckle to get a better price, but I wasn't sure if that applied at a drug store and frankly I was tired and wasn't in the mood to fight for my Old Spice so I'll keep looking for a better deal. And don't worry, I'm not completely out of soap yet. I may look like I don't shower due to my current overgrown non existent haircut, but I assure you I do multiple times a day. 

Tonight is Rock n Roll night in the Centrum. I've began to notice that if Ricky (new cruise director) really gets into an event, he'll just keep going and going and going and going. And going. Whereas our previous cruise director, "30 minute Mark" as someone referred to him in our conversation about this yesterday, always ran the events on an exact schedule. I was warned that Rock n Roll could go very long, so we'll see what happens! Maybe I'll bring extra batteries and memory to be safe!