Magic Dragon Blog

Woke up at 3am to hard rain, thunder, and lightening. The first lightening we have seen since November~. It continued off and on until about noon. We probably got close to 4" of rain. We had decided the day before to go to Mamacita's for breakfast and bloody marys, so we took advantage of a break in the rain to go to ashore. as soon as we got there it started raining again, so the 6 or 7 customers all hudled under the only part of the tin shed roof that wan't leaking.

We had a very good breakfast and drinks, and chatted with tourists from California who were on a captained charter from P.R. The boats captain, Tony, told us that if we needed anything while we were in P.R. - a ride, bail, anything, just call him. Of course he never gave us his phone number (nor did we ask), but it was a nice thought anyway.

We went back to to Mamacitas in the afternoon because Herb had forgotten to buy th t-shirt he wanted when we were there in the orning. We had a couple of drinks and talked to a guy named Chuck, whome we had met at another drinking establishment earlier in the week. Today is Chuck's 74th birthday, and a group of ex-patriots got together to celebrate it as they always do.

Chuck had gotten one of those battery powered remore control helicopters as a gift from one of the other old guys, and was telling all about flying it. The only place big enough indoors was the half finished community center/movie theatre building. It's apparently been under construction for 6 or 7 years. Anyway, it was great fun talking to them - they've all been living herre for at least 20 years.