Rousseau Dominica

Every night we are given a sheet of history, tips and a map for the next day’s Island. The description for Dominica was that it was a relatively
“young” volcanic island. “Dominca’s rugged mountains drop precipitously
into lush valleys creating the picture of tropical paradise…” So late last night we decided that daddy and R should try to do an excursion today.
So daddy went and found there was still room on the Rainforest Tram ride.
Sounds cool eh? Yah, only not so much for people who don’t like heights!
So J and I stayed behind. The left soon after breakfast. J and I
wandered ashore. The town itself was somewhat run down. We were the
only cruise ship docked, and the locals had set up a market like area on
the pier. We browsed there. I got R a sundress. Cute boy clothes for
J’s age were definitely lacking however. We walked to the end of the
market, then walked into the town. The info sheet had said that the sidewalks were in disrepair, and boy were they not kidding. The whole town seems run down, and sidewalks were treacherous, if there at all. I had J in the stroller and I had to keep my eyes on the ground the whole
time. It was very hot, and we quickly grew tired of walking around. We
headed back to the ship and hung out on the Lido deck by the pool (in the
shade of course!). Once J got bored of that I took him to the Promenade
deck thinking I’d just walk him until he fell asleep, but those
traditional deck steamer chairs looked to dog-gone comfy. I parked him
beside me, and rocked the stroller until he fell asleep. After we got
lunch, and just as we finished, daddy and R caught up with us. They had had a good time. R made friends with all the elderly ladies on the tour, had them laughing at her jokes, and wrote a story with one too.
Apparently she didn’t even sit with Daddy on the bus ride, but with her new friend “Char”! Char also has a grandchild adopted from China.
They took some pretty spectacular pictures, I’ll have to post them later.
The afternoon was spend by the pool. I swam with R until her friends arrived at which point she happily let me sit in a deck chair and just
watch. I was quite content with my audio book on my ipod. Daddy and J
went for naps. Late afternoon I coaxed my prune like daughter out of the
pool (she’d been in it for over 3 hours) and got everyone cleaned up for
formal night. I wanted us ready early so we could get the photographer
to take pictures of the kids. The ones of J turned out so great the other day, I wanted ones of both of them and R. We’ll see how there are
tomorrow. J was really restless and hard to keep happy during dinner,
and R was out of sorts too. She had complained in the morning of her stomach hurting, and that worried me. Apparently some of her little friends had been sick this morning too. Great, just what we need. I think J was unhappy because of cutting teeth and just being tired.
Here’s hoping we don’t get sick.