Day 5: A day in Barbados. 

This will be our second time in Barbados, so it is a repeat for us, which is perfectly fine. 

Got up from the alarm going off at .....yep, 6:30am. Hey at least there's some consistency in this cruise and I never have to reset the alarm time daily.

I figured I would start to pack our beach bags since I hadn't done it the night before due to extra fatigue, shortness of breath from so much walking, numbness of fingers from typing my homework up, headache from my sinuses and gulping water all day and yes, it was a really good day!

But back to packing. I knew we were going to a place where we were going to be able to swim with the turtles, so snorkeling stuff in the bag first, then the beach towe.......ls? Wait, those nice and neatly folded beach towels the room steward had for us are OUR WET ONES FROM YESTERDAY!! What the heck! Why would you bother to fold those? He tricked me. I'm a little salty about that now. That now means I have to lug around wet towels with me up to breakfast. Yuck.

So remember the fruit and cheese plate we received on day one of the cruise? Well, we had been nibbling off of it nightly, but the small table they had it on was also the table they put our ice bucket on and cups and anything else they could throw on there. The plate was constantly sticking out. I kept taking it off of there and putting it on the couch and the room steward would put it back. This morning, I would run into it and take a chunk of skin out of my leg (I know you are wondering how does she get cut on a plate....it's a square plate). Ouch!

Sakari and I headed up to the buffet to get me some caffeine and like always, the doors were closed. I'm getting really tired of the buffet doors being closed and it's the ONLY place on the ship that you can get pop from the pop machine and bars aren't open yet. This is ridiculous! I had to go around to the glass doors and weasel my way in and endure all the dirty looks I got from those inside preparing for breakfast. The solution would be to move the pop station OUTSIDE of the buffet which is only open during certain hours!!!

The hubs was finally up when we returned and getting dressed. 

We headed back up to the pool deck to get some fresh towels. I guess I would rather carry dry fresh towels around with me at breakfast than wet heavy towels.

Towel station opens up at 7am. Only it was 7:20am and no attendant available. Huh? I ask someone near by working on the pool deck and they said "I think he went on break". Wait what????? The first thing out of my mouth was what came to my brain, which was "It's 7:20am! They open at 7am! He needs a break 20 minutes after opening?!?! Seriously???" I guess he didn't like that reply and he walked away. I couldn't believe it. Especially on a port day. I just don't like this towel exchange thing they got going on.

We headed on into the buffet with my heavy wet towels. The hubby waited quite some time on the kind of omelet he liked to come out and I settled on what they had out already.

I also decided to try some french toast...but the bread was to hard to eat. Hmm, first complaint of food on RC. I tend to think it might have just been a fluke that day or the piece I grabbed. Mt Bacon was good like always. But I just wasn't satisfied this morning for some reason. Maybe I needed something sweet instead.

Sweetness and fruit hit the spot! 

P&O cruises was already in port and we were docking. The towel guy was there now and we were able to get fresh towels. I bit my tongue about his break 20 minutes after he opened because my belly was full and I wasn't hangry anymore.

Back to the room to grab our things and change and we were off the ship a few minutes after 8am.

Game plan for the day. 

Last time we were here, we went to The Boatyard for the day. Their admission (I think it was $20) included your chairs, umbrella, a drink, and a boat ride out to swim with the turtles. It also included their water trampoline and a ride back to the port! Great deal and beautiful place!

But, this time I decided I wanted something different. Gotta experience everything right? After checking multiple places, I decided to head to Pirates Cove. It's right down the street from The Boatyard and closer to the port. It didn't include the snorkeling out to the turtles in the price, but you could add it on to the price.

Into the winding building of shops we went. Like last time, not many were open in the morning.

We finally made it out the doors. Whew

You can find my complete review at the tab below:

Our day at Pirates Cove also included a little walk down to the Boatyard as well (included in the review above).

We left around 3:40pm and there was a taxi out in the parking lot to take us back.

This taxi driver was loco! He was driving crazy, weaving in and out, cutting people off...yikes. Of course Kia looked at Sakari and said something about this guys driving but yet hers was bad? LOL

We pulled up to port security and they told us to get out our ship cards. We did. They looked. They looked to the back. They see Xander back there. They say he has to have a shirt on to enter the port. Say what? He's wet and full of sand. "Put a shirt on him or he can't enter the port". What kind of craziness is that? Kia put his shirt on and the driver was motioned in. He went the length of the car and then took a sharp right and said "I can't go any further". What??? Xander had to put his shirt on to move up about 6' only to be booted out of the cab? This place is insane.

We got to port and took a few pictures. She is even holding a pirates hand.

Kia headed to the bar and we headed to the ship. Along the way, inside the building as we were walking along, there was a vendor in the middle and Sakari seen something she liked. The minute she went to touch it, the lady yelled "DON'T TOUCH LITTLE GIRL!!!" Hmmm, this lady could have potentially just lost a sell. She has no idea the things that Sakari may want and gets. But not when you talk to my child like that. Ever heard of you break you buy instead of screaming at a child? I just found this trip to Barbados filled with tons of rude people. Everywhere we went and no matter what we did...it was a rude day and I was aggravated and just wanted to go back to the ship.

We were back on the ship a little after 4pm and went to the room to shower and then I headed upstairs to get pop to take some headache medicine. Kia had made it back to the ship and all was good.

I headed back down to the room and daddy was sleeping. This snorkeling day must have worn him out and I said I was going to nap too. Sakari set her alarm to wake us up and decided to work on some of her drawings.

Sakari allowed us to sleep until 6:30pm and at that time she put the alarm by our ears and waited for us to wake up.

She presented me with her drawing...aww, she misses Loki so much.

Tonight would be the night that we decided to head back to the MDR. When we checked in, we ended up getting the same table and the same waiter as last time.

He remembered us and his assistant went to get us 2 glasses each of pop. I really like this!

This waiter and his assistant was so nice. He also mentioned getting a questionnaire when we returned and he would really appreciate if we filled it out...good or bad...so that they can know how we felt our service was.

So, what's on the menu?

The hubs and I decided to go with the Baked French Onion Soup. It was to die for! Even Sakari liked it.

I always seem to take a dinner picture of the hubs like this. So, I didn't want to break the roll I was on.

I'm not a big red meat eater. But, the menu said it had short ribs. I will eat ribs with no problem...regular ribs that is. But...I had tried the short ribs once on Carnival and thought it was pretty darn good. So, I figured I would give this a try and change things up a little. It's something I would never make at home or order when out to eat. So, why not live a little.

It came and it was decent. I didn't think it was as good as Carnival's was. But, I enjoyed it.

For desert...I stuck with what I craved...cheesecake and hold the strawberries please.

The hubby ordered the Apple Pie A La Mode with vanilla ice cream...oh em gee! It was AMAZING! I had almost wished that I would have got that instead.

I don't really remember what we did the rest of the night. Obviously Sakari went to the kids club and by the time we picked her up, she was beaming with glory because she was the winner of tonight's games and she won a ......

We got back to the room and had ourselves a monkey.

Since it was Thursday night...it was time for me to finish one of my papers and turn it in by midnight. I worked on that, submitted, felt a sigh of relief that the internet on this ship works absolutely wonderful (once you get connected) and knew that I would have another 2 days to complete my other 2 assignments, which were short and sweet assignments.

I would pack our bags for our excursion for our last and final port day and message my son to see if Loki and the fish are still alive.