DAY 7 ST MAARTEN 8-6PM

We really struggled with what to do here this time around. We have been here multiple times and the last time, we had our very own personal tour guide (Kia), who used to live on the island for years, take us around to every location possible around the entire island. I mean, who can top that right? So what is there left to do?

I searched and searched and found a tour online (boating) that looked interesting and posted it on here and didn't find anyone that had ever done it. I thought that was extremely odd. While I'm very grateful for the suggestions that people on here mentioned, I had either already done it or didn't interest me. So back to checking out the boating again and decided to throw caution to the wind and blindly book. We needed something "different" to do this time around (since we didn't get a chance to do any dune buggies and I had to endure listening to Kendra the entire cruise talk about it).

Breakfast consisted of the same old routine and then we were pulling in.

This tour was called "Self-Drive Boat Tour and Snorkel from Simpson Bay" The cost was $75 a person, so not bad at all. You book it using Trip Advisor (and I will say there are TONS of great reviews on there...which is what convinced me to book). It is your responsibility to get yourself to the place however.

We caught a cab and off we went to Simpson Bay to the "Rhino Riders" 

To read our great day riding the Rhino Riders, click the following link:

After a day of zooming around the island, we went over to Simpson Bay at Kim Sha Beach for a bit of a beach stop before heading back to the ship.

My review is here:

Back to the ship and sail away time...

At some point we ate again

Sakari wanted to swim more...of course....

And a little hot tub time

I knew that I had to get the luggage packed up and did some packing. I always hate when there's a port day the day before we get off the ship. It just makes things feels so rushed.

We did go to the casino for a little bit and it was an ok night.

This was our hanging towel ________ tonight....like what the heck is it?

Tonight was the night we were finally going to get to pick up our photos from the week. I managed to grab every one of them I could.

Now this was the photographer we had issues with about the photo package....I almost didn't stop to take a picture with him but we needed some from St Maarten so....

The day we were in Barbados, when we got off the ship, there wasn't a photographer around. This turtle was actually upstairs at the buffet to take pictures during breakfast...I'm glad we at least found him.

I think I ended up with 67 photos to keep from the package we paid for and I'm pretty sure Kendra probably had at least 15 or so. That's about 80 pictures for the price of $269 or a little more than $3 a picture. Not bad I guess (even though lets be honest, if you had to pay for them individually I would have never picked a lot of these out with some of the funny smiles Sakari makes nor would we have been dressed down so much. LOL

We had a lot of fun with these and the picture frame...I have a huge one of these I use for pictures as well. lol

These were some of my favorites with the posing

We continued to hang out at the pool deck until it was time to drag Sakari out of the water so that I could get as much water out of her bathing suit and get it packed and put our luggage out when it was needed. I have to say, there were several "over-achievers" in my hall that had them out super early. LOL

Now just so you know.... 

There's more to come with getting off the ship.....as everyone knows...WE ARE AN EXCEPTIONAL GROUP AND YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT FROM US....this time....we outdid ourselves....and took Kia along with us for the ride  LOL 

Also coming up, spending our day in Puerto Rico before flying home the following day....