GREETINGS FROM THE CARIBBEAN!!!!! HOPE YOUR CHRISTMAS WAS GOOD.

THE CELEBRITY EQUINOX IS  gorgeous ship. The highlight of the holidays for me was to volunteer to be the gospel reader at Midnight Mass. Who knew? From bathing suits to vestments !!!

After docking in St. Thomas I immediately took a taxi to the ferry to St. John. I wanted to have lunch at Caneel Bay, the Rockefeller resort built on his land. It is so beautiful there.

Me at Caneel

My lunch guest, a humongous iguana



I originally couldn't decide whether to go to Tortola or St. John, and I picked St. John.

Literally, the minute I was on the ferry back to St. John, and Lynda Carter returned my Christmas text telling me SHE WAS ON TORTOLA with her husband Robert Altman and our friends John and Kimberly Emerson. John was just named Ambassador to Germany. If I could have jumped off the ferry and swum to their yacht, I would have.

Tortola

The Emersons

It rained the next to days at St. Kitt's and Barbados. Not so much fun. Had I been able to really see Barbados, I would have been here at the Sandy Lane Resort. Darn.

TRAGIC! Next time. I'll be back in March.

Sandy Lane Beach

Sandy Lane Resort



So….it was on to Dominica, the Nature Island. If you like rain forests, jungles and waterfall, this one's for you.

Looking down at the ship

Rain forest.


NOW TAKE A LOOK AT THE BARK OF THIS TREE.

The people of Dominica use it as natural VIAGRA! SERIOUSLY. There were signs all over saying, "Don't take the bark off the trees." It's a big business down there. You put the bark in a glass with water and drink it, or if you're desperate, you eat it straight. Yep.

And now it's on to St. Maarten for a day of catamaran sailing, with a stop at Marigot, the city on the French side of the island.

Then it's two last days at sea, and two last lectures for me. What fun this has been!