Bermuda Cruise: St. George

We woke up bright and early on our last day in Bermuda to catch the one and only ferry to St. George's at 9am.  We ate breakfast at The Local, then were in line at 8:15 am because so many people had the same idea.  

Bermuda is one hour behind our time, and because our phones were on airplane mode, they didn't adjust automatically.  The phones caught up once we were in Bermuda, but then the time changed again on our way back home.  We spent a lot of the trip confused as to what time it really was!  "Cruise time" we called it.  Also because we were so active and staying up later than usual, we were all sleeping in and eating meals late, and our bodies were totally off schedule.  Some mornings, we weren't waking up until 9am (actual time or one hour off, we never knew) so it was perfectly vacation-y compared to our normally scheduled lives, and setting an alarm to wake up early on the port days felt rough.  But I'm so glad we did on our final day at port so that we could make it to St. George!

The 50 minute ferry ride was very rocky, making the movement on the cruise ship feel like a piece of cake.  Declan, Brendan and I had all taken Bonine and were wearing our motion sickness patches, and we all did just fine.

When we got off the ferry, there was a parade and celebration in the town square that we stopped to watch:

Then we visited St. Peter's Anglican church, the oldest Anglican church still in use outside of Britain.

Future pastor?

The writing intrigued me

We walked around the cute shops:

We visited the Unfinished Church:

Then we made the trek to Tobacco Bay beach.  It was a bit of a hike to get to Tobacco Bay, but I'm so glad we did it...I think it was my favorite part of Bermuda!

Gorgeous golf courses along the way

The water!!!

We had to catch the one and only ferry back to the ship at 1:00, and the nice captain took the boys in to see "the bridge" and how the ferry operated.  They were proud to have been selected:
 

Please notice the cute ice cream swim shorts I got for Declan:

Salty air snoozes are the best

We were all STARVING when we got back to the ship, and lunch was closing at some of the restaurants.  The boys went to the buffet, but Maggie and Phil and I went to a tapas style restaurant, where you sit and use an ipad to order food from the various restaurants in the food court.  The waiter told us we only had 6 minutes to order before they closed.  Maggie and I assumed each item ordered was like a bite or two, and wound up ordering WAY TOO MUCH food, then felt bad to waste it so we tried to eat it all.  We couldn't stop laughing at our mistake and felt the crew judging us, as they should!

View from the ship

Another cruise ship (from Boston!) came into port, but had to wait for us to leave first, so they sat in the water for a couple hours.  That must have been like purgatory for those passengers, who only had a day to spend on the island:

We sailed away from Bermuda at 5pm and Declan and Brendan waved goodbye to their first international country visited:

We miss it already

Dinner that night was yummy, and I chose a caprese salad and pesto gnocchi.  I literally was always about 75% full on the cruise.  The only hunger I felt was on the port days when we waited to get back on the ship to eat.  Otherwise we were eating breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner, snack everyday and it was indulgent for sure.  In real life, I'd rather be slightly hungry than slightly full, so it was an uncomfortable feeling sometimes.  But it was an all-inclusive vacation, so how could we not?

That night was The Price is Right show which was a highlight.  None of us got called up, but it was fun to yell out "ONE DOLLAR" from the audience!

"These are our 17th Shirley Temples"

We all went to bed tired and happy that night!