Date: 18th August 2010
Grand Turk

The ship docked about 07:00. We got up and moving at 08:45. After breakfast, everyone changed into swimsuits and went ashore. David & Geoffrey practiced snorkelling in the swimming pool while Chrissy, Ruth & Patrice went for a walk along the beach to look for shells.

We were back on board for lunch, and the ship sailed at 14:00. Ruth & David spent the afternoon at Camp Carnival while Geoffrey & Chrissy watched Star Trek at the cinema. The movie was good, but the cinema lights kept going on & off, and it was so cold that we had to nip out for a blanket to wrap ourselves in.

David had lots of fun playing with his stacking robot blocks.

Both children had dinner at Camp Carnival, while the adults dined in the main restraunt. The Thai chicken soup was especially nice, as were the lamb ribs and the seafood in lobster sauce. We all skipped dessert. Well, almost all. The kitchen had prepared a strawberry mousse for Chrissy, as all the regular offereings today had wheat in them. Chrissy shared it around - it was very nice.

After dinner we tried to buy some aloe for Chrissy's sunburn only to find that our cards didn't work. Turns out that the credit card hadn't read properly, so we had to go get it reauthorised.
We then went to the card room and played bridge for an hour or so. On the last hand, Geoffrey seriously underbid. Having bid 2 spades, he made 5!

At 9:30 we went to collect Ruth from Camp Carnival. Ruth had requested an early night, as she had been very grouchy and over-tired when we got up in the morning. We asked her if the was tired and ready to go to bed, and she jumped up and down very fast, shouting "Yes, yes, yes! I want to go to bed so I can get up nicely and not be miserable!"
We, and the Camp staff, were getting exhausted just watching her.

In the end, we left her to it, and went up to the lido for some star-light hot-tubbing.