Our driver picked us up at 2 am for our 5 am departure from DFW via CLT. I was amazed how crowded CLT was upon arrival since New Years Day is supposed to be a slow travel day.
Our plane parked in the B3 parking spot, so we had to take the bus. From landing to leaving the terminal was 40 minutes, and we did have a snaking like to contend with for the machine entry, which had a hard time with my face for some reason. They had two terminals at each station, about 18 total stations open with an operator at each station. Very quick processing, but how long will they have all the stations manned? Got our rental car from Safari and headed to Grand Case. The road was virtually empty until we got to Grand Case even though it was around 4 pm by then. I counted 2 cars in from of me on the International Raceway from the roundabout after the causeway to entering Marigot.
The redoing of the restaurant, bar, kitchen, restrooms and sports desk at GCBC are complete. It's all very nice, but different, and will take me a bit of time to get used to it. Many new faces in the bar/restaurant for high season in addition to all the ones from our October trip. The new upstairs, poolside bar/restaurant is delayed, but everyone I ask gives me a different date as to when.
Oh, the water temperature is a frigid 79, and I'm upset with Mrs. Cruzer for telling me I didn't need to bring my ice skates.
Here's a few pix taken from the plane. The first with the 3 thingies that look like sails weren't visible to me---only through the camera lens. Then there's Saba, Statia and St. Kitts off in the distance, and coming down the hill into Grand Case
Gross laziness is slowly working its way into my routine, I should be fully on Island Mode by this weekend.
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