NatGeo

For the first three days of our honeymoon, Josh and I watched National Geographic whenever we had the TV on. Not because we wanted to, but because it was the only channel we got. Well, NatGeo, St. Lucia's version of PBS, and the TV Guide Channel.

We were perplexed as to why we only got one channel when we paid so much for our week at Sandals, and really thought more channels should be included. We discussed possible theories for only receiving one channel.

• Theory 1.) Maybe Sandals management thinks supplying only one channel would limit the amount of time couples spend watching television, thereby getting them out of their room and partaking in activities around the resort.
• Theory 2.) Maybe management limits channels because statistically the TV's are barely ever on in the rooms anyway, since most of their guests are honeymooners. =)

Whatever the reason, NatGeo is all we got, so NatGeo is all we watched. We saw shows we'd never seen before, saw previews for upcoming NatGeo specials, even started planning a few dinners around being able to see NatGeo specials we had seen previews for.

NatGeo is addicting.

So the third or fourth night of our stay (which was halfway through our trip) we went to dinner at one of the 2 sister Sandals resorts and dined in the Japanese hibachi restaurant. This is one of those restaurants where you sit 10 people to a table and watch the chef cook your dinner in front of you.

For several reasons, this was one of our favorite experiences of our trip, due to the unique group of people that made up our table of 10. Four of the five couples clicked so well that we all met up after dinner to sit on one of the decks and socialize. It was here that we asked their thoughts on why Sandals only supplies one channel.

We got a unanimous "What are you talking about?" with incredulous looks. Every other couple had a billion channels. Including one of the couples that was also staying at our resort.

Fast forward two hours when we got back to our hotel room, and after much fiddling, we realized that our TV required us to actually type in the channel numbers instead of just pushing the Up and Down arrows. We too had a billion channels. Of course. Why wouldn't we? It would be silly to not have a bunch of channels for guests when they're paying that much for a week at Sandals St. Lucia. Especially since there's also a TV Guide Channel showing you what's on all the other channels you get...

I thought of this blog entry as we were sitting here watching a special about an unsolved 1971 hijacking of a Boeing 727, some guy named D.B. Cooper... on the National Geographic channel. Even after we figured out the TV in our room, we still ended up watching only NatGeo every day of our honeymoon. We still waited to see the shows whose previews we'd seen. We even made plans to watch one the week we'd get back home because it looked so interesting.

We're still totally addicted to NatGeo. And we have more than a billion channels.

Josh, Kim & Abby