The Earnests: Cruise Day 3 - St. Thomas, USVI

Day 3 was our first day off the ship! After two days at sea we were ready to be off the boat and explore St. Thomas!

Here is a picture right after we got off the ship!

At St. Thomas we had pre-purchased an excursion that did several different things. The excursion took us on a quick bus tour, stopped at a beach, and also took us to Blackbeards castle.

The excursion began with a bus ride. Here's a picture of the fam on the bus!

Me and B!

I'm not going to lie, the bus ride was a little bit scary. The roads in St. Thomas are very narrow and we were going up hills. However, the crazy ride was well worth what was waiting us at the top! Here is a view of the first over-look we stopped at. Our ship is the one in the front!

Amazing, gorgeous, blue water! Notice all the little sailboats in the bay!

Let the picture taking begin! Those views were just too beautiful to pass up!

Beware blog readers - this may be the Barker Christmas card for 2011! :)

Dad, Mom and Reid

Love this picture! Probably my favorite of the trip!

Loving St. Thomas!

Dad and brother!

Little brother!

While we were taking the views in we noticed this beautiful beach area! Little did we know that would be where we were going for our time on the beach!!!!

I thought this little guy was cute!

After stopping at two different over-looks we headed to the beach area called Magen's Bay.

It was the exact beach we had been looking at from the over-look.

Reid was creeping in our picture!

Close up!

After spending a couple hours on the beach, we headed to Blackbeard's Castle. Blackbeard's castle actually ended up being an entire property with lots of different things to see. Here is the view from the courtyard on the property. Notice our ship!

This tower is actually the castle, so we were a little diappointed it wasn't an actual castle, but the property was really cool!

Mom and I taking advantage of the photo opportunity! haha!

The view from Blackbeard's tower...

Me and B in the tower!

This wall was made of amber and is valued at 2.5 million dollars!

After leaving the Blackbeard Castle property, we took a ship back to our boat to eat lunch. After lunch we headed back off the boat to some of the shops around the port.

We also took the "classic cruise picture" in front of our Ship!

Dad, Mom & Reid

We found this picture board area and had to be silly...

Reid didn't get the memo for silly face!

The fam (if you can't tell, B doesn't like pictures!!!)

We had a great time in St. Thomas.

After our day at St. Thomas we headed to the ship to take a quick nap before dinner. When we got up and dressed for dinner, we were leaving the port in St. Thomas.

Here are the St. Thomas lights as we were pulling away...

The wind was a little bit crazy!

Mom and I on the deck!

Dinner pictures for Night #3

Me and B

Reid, Mom & Dad

And our towel animal was waiting in our room after dinner!

After dinner Mom and I headed to the show on the Ship honoring Frank Sanatra while the guys headed to the casino. The Frank Sanatra show was great, but the guys' luck in the casino wasn't! ;)