Today we relaxed on our day in the
Caribbean Sea, nearly landlocked, surrounded by 7000 islands. It was named for the Carib Indians;
Caribe - Spanish for cannibal and Carib - English for ferocious.
Columbus thought he’d discovered
Asia and called his discoveries the
West Indies. Lured by the riches, British, French, Danes, Swedes and Dutch fought off
Spain in a 300 year colonization frenzy, typical of all the islands. The Africans slaves, far outnumbering everyone else, finally revolted and by 1840 took their dominant place among the free Caribbeans.
We are thoroughly enjoying our cruise. The service and friendliness of the staff is just a winning combination. Ron went in a shuffleboard tournament today. You'll
see that they play just under the lifeboats that we had to muster
under for our drill. I went but
couldn't throw hard enough to even get my ‘puck/rock?’ down the wooden deck into the scoring zone and
wasn’t willing to wreck my shoulder to participate. Ron won a luggage tag for 2
nd place.
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