Curaçao

Curaçao is an island we have never been to before and we were very excited to see it, from pictures it looked so charming. It was going to be hard to top yesterday, but think it might be equal! We headed off the ship at 8:00 and caught a bus to Mambo beach. We had to walk through the town center to the bus stop, looks very European here. Went by the floating maket which is literally just fisherman selling their catch from their boats. Then along all the produce vendors, very colorful. We found the bus station and a van headed to Mombo beach for 2.00 per person it took about 10 minutes to get there. We had the pick of lounge chairs for 3.00 per person, all though no one ever came by to collect, so free today! Beautiful beach, calm warm water protected by a breakwater. We spent 4 hours walking the beach, swimming and visiting with other vacationers. Best drink of the day was the Mai Tai from Hemingway Bar, and to top it off they gave Dave a free shirt! Score! Caught the bus, really a 12 passenger van, back to the bus stop in town and walked back to ship to have lunch. Then headed back off ship to explore this very European and charming port. After walking and exploring for a few hours, along our walk we ran into a bunch of locals playing Mexican Train, they were really playing with enthusiasm , found a Starbucks for some WIFI and a Curaçao mug to add to our collection. Met up with Kitty and Jim for dinner and watched some of the evening show, slipped out about 1/2 way through it, just wasn't our thing. And we are tired after a long day of sun, sand, walking and swimming. It was a fabulous day :)