Ryan C.

The company I work for, Automattic, is a distributed company. That means our employees live and work all over the world. A few times each year, we meet up to spend time working and having fun together. I’ve just returned from a meetup in Barbados, where we worked on the email subscription feature of WordPress.com and Jetpack.

The Portugese came to Barbados en route to Brazil. It was at this time that the island was named Los Barbados (bearded-ones) by the Portugese explorer Pedro a Campos.
— Barbados.org

We spent most of our days working at the hotel, taking breaks to go swimming, and venturing into town in the evening for dinner. On our last full day, we spent a few hours on a small catamaran and then toured the Mount Gay Rum Distillery. Here are some a ton of photos from the trip!

Bajan fish fry

Ocean selfie: Success

El capitan

Swimatticians

Breakfast

Tortuga

Oh hai

Break time

In deep thought

“Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.”

Bridgetown

TXTing lol jk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Waves, etc.

Onboard

ʇnʍ

I spy…

Fish fry

Diving

+t +d adorbz

Moment of impact

When in Rome…

“Roger, Roger, what’s our vector, Victor?”

Mt. Gay Rum Distillery tour

Bridgetown

Bridgetown

Twinsies

I’m incredibly graceful

Clicky en la agua

Oh hai

“Are we there yet?”

Fresh pineapple

Fitting in with the locals

Lunch at MIA

Broken sunglasses

Fish fry festival

Pra$ath

Watching some cricket

I hope that was “wins”…

Relaxamatticians

Back at work

La playa

Another Canadian flag…

O hai.

Ugh, another meeting

Ocean selfie: Failure

wut.

Hotel from the sea

Shipwreck

Some more waves

The hotel

(poolparty)

Until next time…

Back to the hotel

Business meeting

Stylin’ at BGI

Celebrity onboard

Elegance

Shipwreck

Grim reaper

Hotel restaurant

Last night

Exploring

Sea turtle

Oh hai

Sunset

Diving

Horrendous work conditions

Sunset

Just hanging out here in Canada…

Back to the boat

Working

Oh, Canada….

Hose selfie

Catching a wave

Did somebody say, “Rum?”

The locals

Kayakamatticians

Break time!

Lunch!

To Bridgetown

Great hat, Kidder!

Miguel in his natural habitat

Want to see some more? Check out my coworker/friend Steve’s photos here. Want to be a part of this, and help make the web a better place for more than a billion people each month? We’re hiring.