Cruise Day 3, St. Croix

Today we woke up in St. Croix, another one of the US Virgin Islands.  Today our plans were to go to the BEACH!  I've never been anywhere tropical before, so I always figured pictures of the Caribbean were photoshopped to have super blue water.  FALSE.  The water really is that blue!!! 

We rented a couple beach chairs and an umbrella and stayed here all day long.  It was sooo relaxing!

View of the ship

We were sitting on our chairs and all of a sudden this guy walks his horse down to the water.  And then he keeps walking it INTO the water!  The horse started swiming (who knew horses could swim?!?) and then he kind of held on and swam along next to it.  It was crazy!

A little while later we were laying on the chairs again and looked over and saw a couple getting married!  About 50 feet from us! 

We got back on the ship to get ready for the first formal night.  We started getting dressed and I could feel that I got a little sun.  Well I looked at Brent and saw a "little sun" was more than a little!  This is what my back looked like:

We didn't have any aloe, so we had to spend $13 wonderful dollars on a bottle of it.  Needless to say we were in pain the next few days.  But it's all tan now!!

After we got ready we went to an art auction.  It was our first auction and it was so fun!  We saw a painting that we loved and ended up bidding on it and winning!  Crazy!!!  There were even some paintings by Picasso, Rembrandt, and Salvador Dali!  No one bid on any of those though, they were around $30,000!

Sold to US! I love the bright colors!

At dinner

When we got back to the room that night, this was waiting for us:

Up next: St. Kitts!