Yes I'm sad to say, we're almost on our way, we'll be gone, in just a day, my heart is down, my head is turning around...
Hope you caught the musical reference there and forgive the poetic license...
Yesterday, we spent the bulk of the day on St. John.
As we did last visit, we took the car ferry at Red Hook for the short (20 minute) hop over to St. John.
St. John is a much smaller island, with correspondingly less to do. The main "city" which hosts the ferry dock, is Cruz Bay.
Since I had been up since six, and the rest of the crew hadn't eaten breakfast, our first order of business was food. We ended up at JJ's Texas Coast Grill, where the food was fine, the prices were relatively reasonable, and the portions were huge. Even though the service was (once again) slow, at least this waitress was friendly, and obviously trying hard. I guess during the summer (which is the off-season) the restaurants must significantly cut back on staff.
After lunch, we drove to Caneel bay, which is just a short drive from "downtown." Other than "because it's there," the motivation for going to Caneel bay was that Wendy was looking to purchase a specific design of drinking glass which is sold in the gift shop there. Caneel bay seems to be a nice quiet ritzy sort of island resort. We didn't get to walk around much, as there were signs restricting much of the grounds to "guests only."
We then headed back to Cruz Bay for a quick walk through the shops at Mongoose Junction, then hopped the ferry back to St. Thomas so we'd have time to return to the shops at Havensight so Jeanie could pick up a cookbook to add to her collection.
While in Havensight, we couldn't resist the urge to check out the shops at "Al Cohen's," which turned out to have some of the best prices we had seen on the island - surprising given their proximity to the cruise ship docks.
On the way back to the condo, we swung by Blockbuster to return The Butterfly Effect, and to swap out the Against The Ropes DVD which we had mistakenly picked up instead of a VCR tape.
We then drove to Tutu mall to look for a restaurant to "take out." I sighted an interesting looking Caribbean Bar-b-cue, but after checking it out, I was the only one interested, so I got an order of ribs, then we headed over to Red Hook so the rest of the group could find more appealing take-out fare.
After securing vittles for the rest of us, we headed back to the condo to watch the movie while we munched.
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Posted by David at August 10, 2004 07:53 AM | Categorized under: A day in the life