May 1, 2015  St. Thomas US Virgin Islands

Today we are in St. Thomas and are a little disappointed as they are celebrating Carnival today and tomorrow so all the shops in the downtown area are CLOSED!!!!!  Not something good to tell a shopper!  There were some shops by the port some where open and some were not.  I really didn’t need anything but I did find a perfume on board that does not make me have an Asthma attack so I wanted to price it.  The ship’s prices are pretty good and you don’t pay tax but I thought St. Thomas might be cheaper.

We were suppose to arrive around 2pm.  This was a change to the original itinerary as we were told early on that immigration could not handle all of us on the 4^th so instead of Grand Turk they substituted St. Thomas for immigration.

The Captain announced that we would arrive earlier than they thought and we were in around 1pm.  Our time was scheduled for 3:15 but they started earlier and we were done by 1:00pm.  Everyone was required to do a face to face with the immigration people and it went quickly and smoothly.  After we were cleared I headed off the ship in search of the perfume and Bill headed up to work out with Leanne.  I did mine early this am.  I did walk in and out of all the shops and I did find the perfume and it was $10.00 cheaper than the ship and the ship was $8.00 cheaper than Barbados!  So I got a bottle and headed back to the ship.  Ilene and Andy found me in the Bistro I had promised Ilene I would help her with her jewelry purchase so I ran up and put my stuff down and out we went again.  I left a message for Bill to meet us out there.  Ilene got a beautiful necklace and we left them while they were waiting for the lady to ring it up.  Bill and I were on the hunt for free fast internet but alas the café was closed so after walking in and out of the same shops I had been in we headed back to the ship.  We had a very relaxing rest of the afternoon on board!

We had made reservations in Prego for 8pm and asked Nelda and Sheldon to join us so we had a lovely dinner.  We sailed from St. Thomas at 10pm but we didn’t realize it as we were in the show.  Jimmy Travis was tonight’s entertainment and we think he is hysterical so we could not miss that!

All in all a nice day in St. Thomas I would have liked to get into town I wanted to go to Mr Tablecloth but  probably best as I can’t fit anything else!

2 sea days so we can pack up all this “Stuff” we bought!

No Pictures today didn't want to lug the camera to show you port shops!