Well were back on the water again. We've added a new member to the crew for about ten days or so. Aileen our daughter just graduated college and is taking a break. So far we have toured San Juan, Culabrita and now Buck Island. I must say that I'm quite impressed by the water here. While the coral is typically dead in most places some is coming back. Add to that great structure, crystal clear water and huge fish and you have a very nice place to spend some time. If you ever get this way I recommend it. Aileen seems to be enjoying herself despite her best efforts to critique everything. Hopefully she will continue to enjoy herself. Tonight we make a 110 NM leap across the Anagada ( OhMyGodda) Passage to St. Martin. Hopefully she will fare well.
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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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