Trips, Pics, and Tales

I have been the worst at following up and sharing our adventures! Sometimes life goes by so quickly....but I really want to continue with what we did on the rest of our Windstar Cruise because I have another pretty amazing trip coming up soon that I'll be posting about! So after our morning, it was time to visit an Emerald "factory". Colombia is known for its Emeralds. This was a store, with a little museum and processing area. It was quite interesting to see how the emeralds are mined and then processed.  Of course both Lisa and I left with some Emerald jewelry!  I'd like to think we got some bargains, buying at the source and all!  But even if not, I love my pendant and Emerald is my birthstone, and it was a fun experience to buy an Emerald pendant right there. After our shopping, our guide had our driver drop us off in the historic, old town area and from that point the rest of our day would be a walking tour.   ...

It's been a bit busy, and I haven't had time to write about the next few days of our Windstar Cruise!  I've been wanting to share out day in Colombia, but I didn't want to start and then have to stop, because it was definitely one of my absolute favorite cruise ports ever! Actually, totally unexpected! It will probably take a few posts to go through what we did that day, as we had a really long day in port, and I want to say, we saw it all!  Our ship was in port from 8:30 am to 10:00 pm.  We were lucky to have such a long day to be able to really explore this amazing city of Cartagena! As we started to near Colombia, various skylines came into view. I'm not sure that this was Cartagena, we still sailed for quite a bit before docking. But it was a beautiful day! As we were waiting to get off our ship, we talked to a few of the other passengers about what they were doing. Most it seemed had chosen to do the excursions that Windstar offered.  These seemed ...