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

Shipwreck

O hai.

Lunch!

Fish fry festival

Hotel restaurant

Just hanging out here in Canada…

Back to the hotel

Tortuga

Fish fry

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

Another Canadian flag…

Sunset

Diving

Oh hai

Oh hai

Stylin’ at BGI

Break time

Onboard

Catching a wave

Pra$ath

Broken sunglasses

Moment of impact

Fitting in with the locals

When in Rome…

Celebrity onboard

Bridgetown

“Are we there yet?”

Bridgetown

Relaxamatticians

Clicky en la agua

Swimatticians

Sunset

Lunch at MIA

Bridgetown

Great hat, Kidder!

Hotel from the sea

I spy…

wut.

Oh hai

Elegance

To Bridgetown

Kayakamatticians

Twinsies

ʇnʍ

Fresh pineapple

The hotel

Ugh, another meeting

Working

Until next time…

Horrendous work conditions

Back at work

Exploring

TXTing lol jk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh, Canada….

Hose selfie

Business meeting

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

Some more waves

La playa

Shipwreck

In deep thought

(poolparty)

Ocean selfie: Success

Mt. Gay Rum Distillery tour

I hope that was “wins”…

Back to the boat

I’m incredibly graceful

Sea turtle

+t +d adorbz

El capitan

Breakfast

Watching some cricket

Diving

Miguel in his natural habitat

Did somebody say, “Rum?”

Last night

Ocean selfie: Failure

The locals

Grim reaper

Waves, etc.

Break time!

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.