St. Martin 12/30/16

We are off for our newest Tradewinds Cruise Club adventure to St. Martin in the Lesser Antilles. The island is Dutch on one side and French on the other. We start and end on the Dutch side and visit the French side in between.

Our travel companions, who we will meet up with in St Martin, are Sandy and Victor (Ruth's sister-in-law) and Bill and Barb (Sandy's brother and his wife). Mary's Boon is our first night hotel on Simpson Bay. The others are arriving during the day, but the Wades won't touch down until 10:00 pm. We arrived at 11:00 pm at Mary's Boon. The Bolducs and the Knapps were already asleep in their rooms, but we thought they were out on the town. We had a beer at the bar and then had to leave when four cigar smoking locals came in for their Friday night fun. Very smelly. Ruth had an airline bottle of bourbon in her luggage, so we had a cocktail our room watching the news on TV and went to bed. While trying to sleep, our cigar smoking friends were hooting and hollering watching a football game, which was right outside our room apparently. We were so tired it did not matter much.

Our cute room at Mary's Boon.

We even have a little kitchen.