January 20, 2012

Grand Turk & Caicos

After being at sea all day yesterday, we were happy to touch ground again, our first port being Grand Turk and Caicos. There were many excursions to take part in, but we were content to walk around the shopping area, then find a white sand beach to relax on and beautiful blue ocean to swim in.   



There is a monument in honor of John H. Glen Jr. He made history on Feb. 20th 1962 when he became the first American to orbit Earth 3 times. 

He later became a US Senator but in 1998, at the age of 77, he returned to space on the space shuttle "Discovery", becoming the oldest person to  ever go into space.

Here we are at the Margaritaville bar. It was quite the place with a pool and swim up bar. We never did the swim up bar thing, but Michel did swim in the pool. The drinks were mighty expensive, but very refreshing!!

We found a beautiful beach just steps away from the shopping area. We met a Canadian couple from Toronto, who were cruising on Carnival, the ship that docked next to ours at the pier. So in this picture from l to r back row: Rich, Tina, Michel, Myself, Doreen, Steve. In the front Renee and Gary.

Here we have our ship on the left and the Carnival ship on the right.

What a beautiful beach - and this is just the beginning!!   We had a great day.