December 8, 2013

Welcome to Philipsburg, Sint Maarten.

 
Philipsburg is four parallel streets squeezed between Great Bay, where the cruise ships dock, and Salt Pond, where salt was made many years ago. All of St Maarten is duty-free, but Philipsburg has shop after shop each trying to outdo the others offering electronics, alcohol, jewelry, linens, perfume, and more.  Michel and I spent the day walking around this quaint little town.

Our original plan was to partake in the America's Cup Regatta. This is where you have an opportunity to join a racing crew on one of two 70-foot long sailboats with masts 8 stories high and then race against each other. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OX4RSAHJCY 








But it was too windy, so the race was cancelled, thus our choice to tour the little port town. 


We rode back and forth between three little ports on these water taxies.

Played tourist, shopped, took silly pictures and laughed a lot.
Stopped for a rum punch and it almost knocked my socks off!
ingredients include: spiced rum, vanilla rum, dark rum, another kind of rum, then a shot of amaretto. By the time she finished pouring this over ice there was only a sliver of room at the top of the glass for the juice. I had to go back twice for ice once we got a larger glass. But it was sure GOOD!!

Ice Cold Beer, EH!

At the end of our day we spotted this yacht parked at the dock.
I don't know if you can see the emblem 'air' on the side, but this yacht belongs to none other than Michael Jordon!!