Day 4 - St Maarten

St Maarten is the smallest sea island divided between two nations. The French side is called Saint Martin and the Dutch Side is called Sint Maarten. The dutch side uses the dollar and the french side's currency is the Euro. Since the exchange rates are so bad now, we shopped on the Dutch Side.

St Maarten

St Maarten was beautiful with rolling hills and clear blue water.

Welcome to St Maarten

We spent the morning in St Maarten shopping. Chris and the boys tolerated me jewelry shopping. I even brought a new ring. Something a rarely do.

We found this cool sign downtown in St Maarten.

Only 1458 miles to Charleston, SC

We went into a shop named That Yogi Guy. Nick Maley was one of the key contributors to creating Yogi. There were lots of Star Wars memorably there. We saw Nick Maley who was reliving some Star Wars memories.

Jordan and Yodi
The Force is Strong. Use the Force.

We took the Water Taxi (basically a boat) from downtown back to the boat so we could put away what we had bought. Then we took the Water Taxi to the beach.

Chris, Jordan and Kim
The Water Taxi is behind us.
Hunter was taking the picture. Great job, Hunter.

The water was a little chilly but I got in with the boys. You can see the cruise boats behind us. The Oasis of the Sea was dock here. It is the largest cruise ship in the world.

The boys swimming around me.
You can see Jordan's foot and Hunter's head.

Hunter and Jordan both loved the clear water. It was amazing how many fish were swimming around us.

Hunter underwater

Jordan underwater

After playing in the water several hours, we headed back to the ship. The ship we sailed on is behind us.
Jordan did a great job taking this picture.

Chris and Kim

We got back on the ship and dressed for dinner. We enjoyed not cooking or cleaning and leaving the table without paying a bill.

Jordan loved these Pina Coladas