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Showing posts with label wedding. Show all posts
Plantation Dinner Theater
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Friday was a nice day with a little rain on and off. We had gone to Reception to sign up for a couple activities - The Plantation Dinner show and a catamaran for snorkeling.
It turned out that The Plantation was available last night so we grabbed that.
They set up a little wedding arbor on the cliff across from us so we took a few pictures. This wedding was a bit different from last year. This year, the bride walked down the hill, last year, she rode in a golf cart. This year was a violinist, last year a steel drummer.
The little video tried to to get a bit of the violin music. I told Tom that I didn't think that the salty sea air here would be good for a violin and he said it was maybe a plastic-varius.
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Our pick-up time for The Plantation was 5:45 so we got changed and off to the taxi. After going through Oistens and the beginnings of the Friday Fish Fry, we picked up 5 other people, all from the UK.
We got to The Plantation in plenty of time. We picked up our "welcome drinks" and ome of us had pictures with members of the cast. We went to our table - right on the dance floor, in front Nearly perfect seating. Turns out a 5-year-old named Edward had the center front seat. More about him later.
We were entertained by the Casablanca Steel Orchestra - 5 steel drums with 4 drummers, a bass and a drum set. I love watching the one who deals with 2 steel drums - very talented!
Dinner time and lots of great food - salads, flying fish, macaroni pie, BBQ chicken, beef stew, peas'n'rice, desserts and more, coffee... Whatever anyone could possibly want and lots of it. There is also an open bar but I stopped after the first rum punch.
After dinner, the show started.
Here are some highlights:
My favorites, I think, are the stiltwalkers. I am always amazed at how they can dance on those stilts. And I wonder why there are no women doing this.
After the show was the limbo contest, then a singer whow encouraged people to dance with songs like Hot, Hot Hot and In De Congaline.
Took the taxi back home - all in all a great night!
It turned out that The Plantation was available last night so we grabbed that.
They set up a little wedding arbor on the cliff across from us so we took a few pictures. This wedding was a bit different from last year. This year, the bride walked down the hill, last year, she rode in a golf cart. This year was a violinist, last year a steel drummer.
The little video tried to to get a bit of the violin music. I told Tom that I didn't think that the salty sea air here would be good for a violin and he said it was maybe a plastic-varius.
1 of 4Our pick-up time for The Plantation was 5:45 so we got changed and off to the taxi. After going through Oistens and the beginnings of the Friday Fish Fry, we picked up 5 other people, all from the UK.
We got to The Plantation in plenty of time. We picked up our "welcome drinks" and ome of us had pictures with members of the cast. We went to our table - right on the dance floor, in front Nearly perfect seating. Turns out a 5-year-old named Edward had the center front seat. More about him later.
We were entertained by the Casablanca Steel Orchestra - 5 steel drums with 4 drummers, a bass and a drum set. I love watching the one who deals with 2 steel drums - very talented!
Dinner time and lots of great food - salads, flying fish, macaroni pie, BBQ chicken, beef stew, peas'n'rice, desserts and more, coffee... Whatever anyone could possibly want and lots of it. There is also an open bar but I stopped after the first rum punch.
After dinner, the show started.
Here are some highlights:
My favorites, I think, are the stiltwalkers. I am always amazed at how they can dance on those stilts. And I wonder why there are no women doing this.
After the show was the limbo contest, then a singer whow encouraged people to dance with songs like Hot, Hot Hot and In De Congaline.
Took the taxi back home - all in all a great night!
Friday, September 3. Our last day this year
Friday, September 3, 2010
Our last full day here.
I had a lot of trouble sleeping last night. Even with the AC on, I was very hot and I finally got up and rested on the sofa under the fan. I started writing this at 3:30am after tossing and turning.
It looked like it rained outside again, otherwise I might have tried to sleep outside. Maybe my non-sleep will make me tired enough to sleep well on the plane on Saturday.
Yesterday they had fogged for mosquitos like the do every Tuesday and Thursday evening but last night's seemed heavier than usual. Still, some mosquitos survived and managed to bite me, one on the arch of my foot. I can't imagine he got anything out of my foot.
When I woke up at 6am after getting only 2.5 hours of sleep. Tom had opened up and there was a nice breeze. He was off, trying to get sunrise pictures. When he got back, I was sitting with my legs in the pool, trying to cool down the burn from the mosquito bites. They reminded me of a time we had been in Hilton Head and I accidentally stepped into a nest of fire ants.
We got yet more pictures from the deck. I saw that heron again but he was still too fast for me. It looks like there's another storm out at sea somewhere. I hope nothing big happens between here and Miami tomorrow while we're flying home.
Turns out there was no storm today. The whole day was beautiful. We went over to the Carriage House again for lunch. I got several “heron pictures” but none that really show him/her to best advantage.
Yesterday I'd ordered a tossed salad with lunch instead of fries. Fries arrived. Today I figured what the heck and ordered fries. My salad came. Hmmm..
There was another wedding and we got pictures of the setup and all. This one had a steel drummer playing the wedding march. I tried to get a little video but we were too far away. The wedding took abut 5 minutes. The pictures afterward took about 45.
At some point, I was resting on my elbows on the side of the pool, just lying still, thinking, and a bird swooped down and touched my chest. I think he was as surprised as I was that I wasn't a fish.
This is the last entry until we get home. Tomorrow will be a long, difficult day. We get up and pack, then check out of here by 10. We have to be at the airport by 12:40, then lines for tickets, baggage checks, security, customs, duty-free stuff. Then at Miami we go through immigration, US customs, then wait for several hours until our next plane. We get to DC about 12:35am on Sunday, then get a cab for a 45 minute ride home. Then, sleep! Our son should be there when we get home and that will be so nice.
Then, we pick up our dog later on Sunday and...back to real life. Work, doctors, volunteer stuff, medical testing, webwork, house cleaning, laundry, calls to make, emails, rehearsals. Real life.
In 50 weeks we'll be back! I'm already counting the days.
We took 177 pictures today just in case we missed anything over the last 2 weeks:
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