May 4th
Today is our last port. We went on the FREE shore excursion offered by Royal Caribbean for the Diamond Plus/Diamond members. This is a rescheduled tour as the original one was to be in Puerto Vallarta. This one was a tour to the Cafe Britt coffee fields. Their facilities are close to San Jose so we had about a 2 1/2 Hour bus ride each way.
Even though it was a long ride, the scenery was beautiful.
Our first stop was at a coffee farm to learn about growing and harvesting the coffee beans. This was fun and really very informative.
Next we stopped at the main Cafe Britt facility were we learned about the roasting and processing the beans. There was then a comedy enactment of the history of coffee. This was cute and fun. Then we had a lunch and was a welcome change from cruise food. Of course, there was a chance to buy coffee, etc!!!! Bought a French Press and a few bags of espresso beans and, of course, some chocolate covered espresso beans. Now, I just have to figure out how to pack all this stuff.
All in all, a long day but fun. No one felt like going to the dining room tonight so we all ate up in the Windjammer. Sandy and I found the “make your own pizza” area and made a delicious pizza with anchovies. Finally, made it to the show tonight. It highlighted one of the production show singers. He really was very good and should go far.
