Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Catching up

We visited a spice farm on Grenada. Everything smelled so nice. Afterwards we has a nice rum punch. At one point right before we boarded our bus we spotted some cute monkeys in a tree making very sweet squeaky noises. 
Coffee

Vanilla bean





Nutmeg


Clove
The nutmeg is the most important spice for them that they include it on their national flag. They also had cinnamon bark, lemon grass, allspice leaves and on and on.  

Sunday was a sea day and also my birthday. My Road Scholar group arranged a high tea for me which was very sweet. The ship captain sent me a cupcake. No candles allowed but everyone sang. 
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