When I came to Trinidad last year to help onboard Logos 2 for her last weeks of ministry and then to clear out the ship, there were no plans to bring Logos Hope to the Caribbean. Of course all that changed and we are now here for our 4th port of the Caribbean tour.
Trinidad historically has been the busiest port in the world for OM ships in terms of book sales. We have already got off to a very busy start with our highest ever book sales on Saturday.
By the end of today, we expect to have sold more books here in 5 days than we sold in Tobago in 3 weeks!
We were so thankful that last week we were able to stay behind in Tobago for a few days of break before coming to Trinidad. We were actually able to stay at a beautiful hotel that gave us the local rates because we were from Logos Hope. Liam and Kara are on a weeks school holiday so it worked out perfectly. Pauline gave us a lift to the hotel Monday morning and the ship sailed in the evening. We enjoyed 3 nights in Tobago before getting the fast catamaran ferry to Trindad on Thursday evening. On Wednesday we experienced our first real tropical monsoon storm with torrential rain, thunder and lightning lasting all day - it didn't stop the kids going out in a canoe and swimming in the pool though.
Then on Thursday evening, our good friends Alex and Beth and their family arrived onboard. We lived with them in Mosbach 2 years ago and now they have joined the ship - Alex will be Hotel & Catering Director. Alex and Beth were our best friends on Doulos 12 years ago and our kids all get on very well so we are so happy to have them onboard.Trinidad is so different from the other Caribbean ports we have visited so far. It is a very large island with a population of around 1.3 million. It is industrialised and over run with cars as well as having a high crime rate. It is considered quite a dangerous place so it does mean that we will be much more restricted in what we can do here as a family.
