Spectacular Seychelles!

I woke up on the 17^th to see beautiful islands outside my window and Brooke and I were quite excited to be in the Seychelles! So Brooke, Ryan, Taha, Maureen, Brittany and I rented a car for the day and went exploring. We drove all around the main island of the Seychelles, Mahe, and it was beautiful. It was actually quite jungle-y and very green. We went to a secluded beach and went swimming and played soccer. There was small island in the distance so we decided to swim to it (never a good idea!) and it ended up being farther than we thought so we swam to shore and proceeded to climb these huge rocks to try and take a shortcut to the island, but we just ended up getting all scraped up. We did finally swim to it and take some pictures but man was the swim back long! Lol then we found lunch at this Seychellian-hibachi style place that was wonderful. Talk about island time though, it took about 2 ½ for lunch but banana crepes for dessert were worth it. Then we found another beach and watched the sunset and frolicked (per my request) and played a little beach volleyball. We took a lot of underwater pictures and videos too, (since I have a waterproof camera) and it was lots of fun.

We went back to the ship and freshened up and then went out to dinner at the Pirate’s Arms. Most of TSS was there, since it was the only restaurant in town open on a Sunday night. The next morning we woke up at 530 to drive to a lookout point and watch the sunrise. It was somewhat cloudy but still pretty and it was nice being up that early! We had a few hours until we had to turn the car in so we drove around some more and found a pretty waterfall and took pictures there. On the way back to the ship we discovered this abandoned area and were driving around when we got a flat tire! In the middle of nowhere! Ha! Luckily we had a spare and the boys attempted to put the spare on, but then they didn’t know what to do. So I stepped in, by getting out the manual, and reading them the directions, imagine that! (All men are the same!) We got the spare on and then picked up some groceries on the way back to the ship. We exchanged pictures and rested for a couple of hours since we had been up so early and there were some issues to take care of with the car. We found internet that afternoon and then the boys went to play soccer and I went with the girls to the main beach. We had ice cream and played in the water for hours and it was wonderful! Then we had to head back to the ship so we wouldn’t miss ETL, but it was a beautiful experience. The waters were blue and the beaches white and everything was pretty well-maintained. If we had more time we could have seen some of the smaller islands, but 48 hours is pretty limited.