Not sure if it’s because we’re staying at the Ritz, or if it’s island culture, but everyone is so friendly. The taxi drivers, the people working throughout the hotel, the waitstaff working the restaurants, the host at the restaurant off the property last night…everyone wants to chat with us, know if we are sisters, talk about where we are from, ask us about the U.S., etc.

And the food has been so good. Cookies and rum punch in the hotel lobby. In addition to lots of frozen cocktails on the beach, we enjoyed fish tacos for lunch and brown rice mahi mahi with fried plantains for dinner.

Today I spent the day working — listening to brilliant colleagues about their experiences which brought them to this event. Alastair Fothergill was the guest speaker this morning and the footage he showed us of his Planet Earth, Frozen Planet and upcoming The Hunt series were breathtaking.

Tonight I’m going to bail on dinner reservations at Blue (by world renowned chef Eric Ripert of NYC/Le Bernardin fame) for a quiet dinner on the beach with more fish tacos!