Mauritius- the place you have never heard of

Bonjour everyone! First let me just say that 48 hours in Mauritius is not enough time, especially since the ship docked a few hours late. Because of this, I did not get a chance to use the wireless Internet, so I lied when I told everyone you would be receiving emails from me. Sorry L --I’ll work on it. Ok, so Mauritius- the small island that the majority of you have probably never heard of- GORGEOUS! The first day there we walked around the market, and I bought a new camera woo hoo. Around 4 pm I went on an SAS trip to visit an SOS Children’s Village, which was a good experience. SOS Villages are small communities with houses that hold about 10 children and a “mother”. The majority of the kids in the villages have been abandoned by their parents, not orphaned, which is really sad. We basically just played with them for a little bit before returning to the ship. I met up with a bunch of people at the ship and we all walked to China Town to get dinner. I don’t usually eat Chinese food, but I split some stuff with Jordi, and I’ll admit it was pretty good. So after that Jordi and I went back to the ship, and then boys called us to see what we were doing. Eric, Terron, and Darren got a villa in Flic en Flac along with a ton of other SAS’ers, so we took a cab over their place. The next morning we went to the beach at Flic en Flac, and it was so nice. It was really hot and there were a bunch of flies, so we didn’t stay for too long. Instead of staying in the villa again that night the boys decided that they were going to go back to the ship, so we all took a taxi together. That night we went out to dinner and then to the casino on the waterfront. I have really bad luck with slot machines L.
On our final day Eric, Jaime, and I all had the same SAS trip, which was a catamaran and snorkeling. The catamaran was so cool- I am definitely going to have one of those when I am older. It was kind of windy, so it was hard to see things under the water because of the waves, but we got to see dolphins! They were like mini-dolphins, they were so small, and they were swimming next to and under our catamaran. It was a really good trip though; they cooked us amazing BBQ chicken yum. Afterwards I was so tired, just from being in the sun all day and swimming, but we only had a few hours left in Mauritius and I needed to get some more shopping done. So we got showers, met up with some other people, and then walked around and looked for a place to eat dinner. We went to this cool place, but it took a really long time for all the food we ordered. By the time we got out of there it was about 815, and on ship was 9. Of course we all got distracted by a few shops that were still open, so we were in there shopping when Jordi yelled that it was already 840. We all went to catch the water taxi back to the ship, which we had to wait for. By the time the water taxi dropped us off it was 850 so we all started sprinting to our dock, which was not very close. Also, it was raining, and we were all wearing flip-flops which doesn’t help in running. So I swiped into the ship at 857, and everyone else did at 858.. no dock time!!!!!! We were really lucky because having dock time for India would be horrible. Oh yeah- HAPPY ST. PATTY’S DAY!

We had Sea Olympics yesterday (Sunday). I was part of the Bering Sea black pirates. We were all decked out in pirate gear, and I thought we did well in events, but we got last place L. The winners (Agean Sea) get to be the first off the ship in San Diego. I don’t know if that means that we are the last ones, but if so, Mom and Katie you guys will be waiting on the dock for a really long time. I participated in the Synchronized Swimming event. Actually, it was Interpretive Synchronized Swimming. The ship was really rocky that day, so they didn’t fill the pool, so the event was held on the floor of the Union. It was interesting- I hope somebody videotaped it.
Now we are on our way to India! I am spending the majority of my time there in Delhi, and I am going to visit the Taj Mahal. I am so excited about this port. I hope I am able to post this soon. The satellite that we and other cruise ships use is broken or something, so internet is barely working, and the phone system is not working, so I hope there are no emergencies. That is it for now, I hope everybody is doing well and staying safe! Keep sending me emails and hopefully I can get to read and respond to them soon. I haven’t forgot about anyone. Love you all!