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!

To Bridgetown

The locals

La playa

The hotel

I hope that was “wins”…

El capitan

Hotel from the sea

O hai.

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

Did somebody say, “Rum?”

Fish fry festival

Oh, Canada….

Mt. Gay Rum Distillery tour

Kayakamatticians

Sunset

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

Hose selfie

Broken sunglasses

Break time!

Diving

Clicky en la agua

Horrendous work conditions

Shipwreck

Back to the hotel

Until next time…

Relaxamatticians

Waves, etc.

Back at work

Pra$ath

Great hat, Kidder!

+t +d adorbz

I spy…

I’m incredibly graceful

Oh hai

wut.

Oh hai

Fish fry

Sea turtle

Moment of impact

TXTing lol jk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(poolparty)

Ocean selfie: Failure

Hotel restaurant

Onboard

Celebrity onboard

Grim reaper

Some more waves

Bajan fish fry

Back to the boat

Ocean selfie: Success

ʇnʍ

Tortuga

Bridgetown

When in Rome…

Stylin’ at BGI

Elegance

Breakfast

Just hanging out here in Canada…

Shipwreck

Bridgetown

Break time

Oh hai

Working

Fitting in with the locals

Catching a wave

Bridgetown

Another Canadian flag…

Diving

Twinsies

Exploring

Last night

Watching some cricket

In deep thought

Lunch at MIA

Swimatticians

Sunset

Business meeting

Lunch!

“Are we there yet?”

Fresh pineapple

Miguel in his natural habitat

Ugh, another meeting

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