I'll be heading to Trinidad to see President Obama

[malaise]

You betcha - I'll be at the Summit of the Americas.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/news6.html

[bdamomma]

1. you globe trotter!!!

have fun

[malaise]

3. It's in April and I'm betting that's the only chance I'll

have to see him in the flesh

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161418773

Time to make some plans right now. :D

[Solly Mack]

2. Have fun!

[malaise]

4. I'm sure it will be complete chaos

but I'll be safe at the home of close friends.

[Solly Mack]

6. Safe is good

if not exactly exciting :P

[malaise]

8. I'll have a bit of both

:D

[Nipper1959]

5. self delete

[malaise]

7. I love Trinidad and Tobago

They have the most fun on the planet. Soca music is great but I still love my calypso.
My nieces and nephews always laugh at tourists since they know they see the real Caribbean when they visit me or travel to the Eastern Caribbean with me. It is very, very different than being a tourist.

[HelenWheels]

9. I agree

In 1992 I spent two weeks in Trinidad and Tobago. I went with a group of college students and we were all working on our degrees. Mine was for a BSN and I studied the health care system there. One of our professors had friends in Trinidad so we were invited into their homes and to a lot of places tourists never see. The beaches are not just for tourists and we were able to see fishermen pull in their nets, a soca battle of the bands and see where they were working on costumes and floats for their annual parade and celebration. I especially loved how music was every where. You knew the bus was coming because you heard the music before the bus was in view. The people were great.

[malaise]

10. You went to Carnival?

Haven't been in years but when I was young we didn't miss it. Like you I loved the preparations for carnival - the pan yard, the calypso and soca tents and the costume yard. One year Peter Minshall's theme was called Rats. Bureaucrats, aristocrats, technocrats, gutter rats, etc. That was out of this world - his band always has a political message.

Trinidad doesn't have a tourist economy so you see more locals on their beaches. The tourists head for Tobago and even there you see more Europeans.

[HelenWheels]

11. Unfortunately, no

We had to leave before Carnival started. I couldn't remember the term, Carnival. Thanks. After we left Trinidad we spent two weeks in St. Thomas and St. John. They had beautiful beaches but the people were not as much fun as the Trinidadians and the island was not as interesting as T&T.

[malaise]

12. Trinis are fun people

best humour in the Caribbean.