9.17

Today I walked around St. Croix for a while. I had never had the time to get off in St. Croix, so it was my first time. I decided to just walk down the coast to see what I could find. After I was out for about twenty minutes it began to rain. Rain storms in the Caribbean are really intense for about 5 minutes and then it stops and the water instantly evaporates from the heat and in 20 minutes it's like it never rained. So I took cover while it rained and then continued to walk along the water. I came to this really cool fish market where they were selling all sorts of different types of fish. There were also kids walking around with random musical instruments each playing different songs. It was pretty chaotic. I didn't buy any fish and continued to walk past the dock area. I ran out of normal road to walk on so I decided to turn back and walk along the road towards the ship. Because St. Croix is part of the U.S. Virgin Islands, they have a lot American cars so I felt right at home as big F-350s rumbled by me. 

This evening is the farewell show where I get to screen the CIR preview. I made it a little shorter this show because I feel like last time it was starting to feel less like a preview and more like you were beginning to watch it. This week I cut it down from six to four minutes and made each segment about 20 seconds shorter. I think this will (hopefully) hold the audience's attention better. I think tomorrow I have to start work at 700 because we have to run the departure slides. Apparently we'd somehow gotten out of it the past few weeks, but I guess this week we're back to running the slides. I think we basically just hangout in the broadcast room and wait for someone to call me to let me know they're ready for the next group of guests and then I change the information that displays on the TVs and monitors throughout the ship. Sounds like an exciting morning to me. I think after I do that I'm going to go out and try to find a less expensive drug store to buy some supplies I need. Hopefully I can find a place where I don't have to spend half of my life savings on soap. 

I'm getting eaten alive by some sort of flying spider like thing as I write this. This is my first encounter with bugs in the Caribbean and they are not pleasant! Closing my laptop now.