From First Class to Banana Sass - or Day 1

So it's 10 PM in St. Maarten and we are in bed. But we had a great first day. We had an overall good flight down, other than the family with three boys under 7 sitting all around us. Now normally I am all for kids and traveling. Certainly I understand kids are going to act the fool. But if I had to have one more 3-7 year old come up to their Dad (who was sitting directly across from us) and say "I have to go poopy." I was going to lose it. Oh- first and probably only celebrity sighting of the trip occured today at the airport when we arrived. Chad "Ocho-cinco" Johnson is getting married here this weekend and we arrived at the same time as his entourage. Our entourage paled in comparison with his - unless you count our 4 pieces of luggage. The worst part of the day was renting a car. It is always my least favorite part when I travel for work too but in St. Maarten and at the Dollar Rent-a-Car, it is the worst. You have to get shuttled in a van with 30 other people (who smell) and their luggage (also smells) to the Rental location (which smells). You get in a long line (which figuratively stinks) and fill out absurd amount of paperwork, only to be released to the shark pool where people push and act like third graders to get taken to pick up the car. It was a mess. But alas we got our car and arrived at the Royal Islander. Our room is nice and we are right on the beach which I will love over the next few days. We went to get some graceries after since we have a kitchen. I enjoyed the prices: $8 for a pack of Oreos. $5 for a bag of chips. $15 for a 750 ML bottle of Absolute Orient. Check. Grocery money will mostly be spent on Vodka I beleive. What followed was drinks at Sunset Beach bar on the water, a nap at the pool and dinner at Cheri's Cafe across the street from our hotel. Ah and here is where things get special. Cheri's had entertainment. A local band with three male singers dressed in sequin Aladdin outfits. The lead had the largest beer belly I have ever seen. The lead singer's dad was in the audience tonight and they hadnt seen each other in 3 years. He cried. After he dressed as a large banana and sang the Banana Boat song very creepily. As he perused the audience to rub his costume over groups of women. The band also had a guy they called the Generalat the keyboard. He spoke in a deep voice and sang Barry White style. But only in unintelligible phrases. But probably my favorite part of the night (besides the pink clapping toy in the shape of a heart they gave us) was out waiter, Sunshine. Sunshine was a 350 pound large MAN. That is all.