Wow it's been a long time since I wrote anything here. To those of you who have complained, all I can say is this island time thing is getting a hold of me good. Now let's see where did we leave off? Oh yes guests.
We hosted our friends Jim and Kelly from Seattle for 10 days and had a great time. We were kind of unsure how we would do with guests for that long but it went smoothly and it was due in no small part by effort put forth by Jim and Kelly as well. We took them to Charlotte Amalie in St Thomas and timed our trip perfectly with the St. Thomas Carnival. Lot's of partying as well as fireworks. The fireworks were very nicely done and it was a lengthy presentation. We also went snorkeling on Buck Island.
The next day Sunny was acting very odd which in and of itself is quite normal, but this was different. She insisted we do a raft up with Bristol Rose and Spectra. In the end we did raft with Spectra but Bristol abstained. We had a surprise birthday party for me. I certainly didn't expect that especially after last year but she did it again. It was a lot of fun and I got the usual your 40 presents like Aspercreme and Bengay, but Mel made some really cute presents and Trish and Robert re-edited the local travel magazine into a very cute and hilarious rag all about Sunny and I. The pictures in there were priceless.
Sunny flew to Memphis and took her sister on a road trip to Texas and Arkansas to see William and his new wife Bonnie. They also sat around ate and went shopping a lot from what I can see. Sunny got to go to the Big Wal-Mart in Bentonville, AR. How fun, too bad I elected to stay put.
Sunny is back again and we are cruising in St. John right now. It is really nice weather here and hopefully it continues. We fly back to Seattle on the 4th for Aileen's Graduation then we fly back and start heading for Grenada.
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We are having guests arrive this week and so we have been rearranging our little house here to make room. What was to be a simple rearrangement of stuff has become a spring cleaning extravaganza. It absolutely amazes me how much useless stuff we can acquire, even when we have no real place to put it in the first place. I think we have achieved some success in organizing our lives again and we will have to make a better effort at rejecting unneeded items in the future.
Jim and Kelly, friends from Seattle, will join us for a while and hopefully we can see the USVI's. the wind appears to be cooperating just for them. We should be moving East on Thursday in the morning.
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While the sea may provide plenty of fish, vegetables are not normally at hand. Sunny being a serious plant eater is normally quite disappointed with most selections provided by local stores. Yesterday, while traveling through the town of Isabella, she could have been mistaken for a lotto winner when she found a traveling vegetable salesman who passes through Vieques once a week. She did her best to clean him out. To the average viewer back stateside this may not look like a very big deal but I can honestly say that she has more here, both in quality and in variety than I would say any place we have been since Florida, ergo the huge smile on her face. Now if she can just figure out how to eat it all before it goes bad. Knowing her it will not be much of a challenge.
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