Ocho Rios:

Anyway, Ocho Rios today. Left the kids on board and just walked around a little, spent some time at the Island Village right off the pier. Stopped by at Margaritaville - mostly because they handed out "Free Shot" coupons out front - and ordered what ended up being a HUUUGE platter of nachos. We couldn't finish them all. Hung out for a while down at the bar and yes, once again the red ponytails caught someone's attention and the DJ ended up pouring a shot for me. Sans shot glass. :^0 Bought some rum, skipped on the Blue Mountain coffee - why pay $18/lb when we buy Costa Rican coffee at home for $9/lb? - and got back on board. It was hot and sunny, a combination that made my sunburned back painful, and we hadn't planned on doing anything in Jamaica anyway - the big thing is Dunns River Falls, and that just didn't appeal to us.

Came back and took a nap while Chris wandered around the ship and took some photos. Picked up the kids from Camp in time to get ready for dinner. Second formal night tonight, but even after Talia was dressed in her little Chinese dress, she wanted to go eat with the other kids at camp. Sigh. So, the three of us went and had dinner without her. It still amazes me that this entire week, there has been *no one* in our section of the restaurant! There's a table for 8 next to us, and two booths for 4 behind us - and no one has been in any of them all week...

After dinner we went and watched the magic show, which was very good. Stephen was mad because he was never called on stage, but other than that he really liked it. They offered a CD/DVD of the show for $5 which we did get - it's mostly music clips of the songs they used and about 5 minutes of actual footage, but what do you want for $5? After the show Stephen had his picture taken with one of the magicians and his python. He says his favorite part of the magic show was the Cage of Death. How typical, lol.

Right now Talia's asleep, and Chris and Stephen just went downstairs to check out the Grand Buffet. Another day at sea tomorrow, and then we are back in port. It seems anticlimactic to have a day at sea before ending the cruise, but I may just need that long to get everything re-packed.

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