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!

Twinsies

Oh hai

Hotel from the sea

Lunch at MIA

Sea turtle

TXTing lol jk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Bridgetown

To Bridgetown

Back at work

Break time!

Bridgetown

Bajan fish fry

Sunset

(poolparty)

Just hanging out here in Canada…

Ocean selfie: Success

Great hat, Kidder!

Fresh pineapple

El capitan

Diving

Elegance

Oh hai

Waves, etc.

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

Onboard

“Are we there yet?”

When in Rome…

Catching a wave

Fish fry festival

Miguel in his natural habitat

Horrendous work conditions

Exploring

Another Canadian flag…

Back to the boat

Business meeting

Relaxamatticians

Breakfast

I hope that was “wins”…

Stylin’ at BGI

La playa

Clicky en la agua

Ugh, another meeting

Celebrity onboard

Mt. Gay Rum Distillery tour

In deep thought

Swimatticians

O hai.

Break time

Lunch!

Kayakamatticians

Broken sunglasses

Working

Diving

+t +d adorbz

Fish fry

Hotel restaurant

Sunset

Fitting in with the locals

Until next time…

ʇnʍ

Bridgetown

Shipwreck

Some more waves

Last night

The hotel

wut.

Did somebody say, “Rum?”

Pra$ath

I spy…

Oh hai

Hose selfie

I’m incredibly graceful

Grim reaper

Back to the hotel

Oh, Canada….

Moment of impact

Shipwreck

Tortuga

Ocean selfie: Failure

Watching some cricket

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

The locals

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