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!

Break time!

wut.

Fish fry

“Are we there yet?”

ʇnʍ

Last night

Hose selfie

Tortuga

TXTing lol jk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hotel from the sea

Some more waves

Bajan fish fry

Catching a wave

Oh hai

Watching some cricket

Breakfast

Broken sunglasses

Swimatticians

Did somebody say, “Rum?”

Celebrity onboard

Until next time…

Oh hai

Lunch!

Sunset

Just hanging out here in Canada…

Diving

O hai.

Sea turtle

Miguel in his natural habitat

Shipwreck

I’m incredibly graceful

Back to the hotel

Oh, Canada….

Ocean selfie: Failure

Another Canadian flag…

Working

Stylin’ at BGI

Mt. Gay Rum Distillery tour

When in Rome…

To Bridgetown

Bridgetown

Break time

Ugh, another meeting

Clicky en la agua

Diving

Ocean selfie: Success

El capitan

Waves, etc.

Horrendous work conditions

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

Great hat, Kidder!

In deep thought

Sunset

I hope that was “wins”…

Pra$ath

I spy…

The hotel

Fitting in with the locals

Fresh pineapple

Shipwreck

Moment of impact

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

Hotel restaurant

Fish fry festival

Twinsies

The locals

Oh hai

Relaxamatticians

(poolparty)

Exploring

Onboard

Back to the boat

Lunch at MIA

Business meeting

+t +d adorbz

La playa

Bridgetown

Grim reaper

Elegance

Back at work

Bridgetown

Kayakamatticians

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