Hello from St. Maarten! Yes....I know you thought we were going to St. Barts today...so did we until we read our Passages last night - seems the captain changed our itinerary - not problem, in fact it gave us an extra hour in San Juan and an overnight here in Philipsburg. You can imagine how happy the crew is - smiles on every face today - OK, they always smile but today they are grinning!

If we had been in St. Barts today we would have stayed until 11 PM but tendering, which is always more difficult at night. And....if we had been in St. Maarten tomorrow we would have been with 4 other ships - a zoo for sure.

This seems like a win-win. We are docked - long pier - long walk, and next to Disney Magic - LOTS of kids! It's a beautiful sunny day and EVERYONE is smiling.

Now, the next best thing - I'm writing this from my cabin! YES, wifi, but not Mariner WiFi.....In St. Maarten they have a wifi service - $9 for 24 hours - $5 for 12 hours - since we're here overnight I decided to splurge on the 24 hour package! It sure bets schleeping my laptop downstairs to club.com!

I'm going to try uploading some photos too - perhaps it will work better than the "local" service here on the ship.

So...I'll work on that and report more later - it's still a beautiful day so I'm off to the pool for a while.

More later!

Margo