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MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY

So, what has been going on? Not much, apparently. This year has been one filled with stress for us, and I guess we didn't really know how stressed we were until we got here. The past three days we've just slowed down to a crawl and kind of hung out here. Most of my days have been spent in my “office' here, reading a book.




I am ready to start on book #5 in the morning, although I have to confess I got about 1/3 through one and tossed it to the side, at the BSV lending library, where I picked up a bunch of new books. So I guess I will say it's really book #4, but who's counting??

So, will just say that this will be an attempt to try to get caught up here, but just hitting high spots.

On Monday, we didn't leave the house. Breakfast was a ham and cheese omelette.





Lunch was a really good grilled chicken sandwich, with bacon and lettuce along with a home made potato salad. Trust me, it was better than the picture!


Dinner was leftovers.

On Tuesday, after breakfast of bacon and eggs, we went to Le Suciere to get some quiche. Lunch was some cheese and crackers and fruit. We went to Pizza Italy for dinner. I had heard good reviews of Pizza Italy, but I have to say that it was kind of underwhelming. We ordered the “Pizza Italy”, which I would assume I guess is their specialty. It seemed to need sauce and cheese as it seemed kind of dry.



Wednesday, we had our quiche, along with with mimosas and coffee.



It was a nice way to start the day. Then Eric went to Carrefour to get a few things like some more water, soda, some fruit, buns, etc. Dinner will be grilled chicken, stuffing and veggies.

The weather continues to be warm, but much cooler than at home in Florida. For most of the time, there has been a nice breeze through the 'house', as we leave the front and back doors open. Our first couple of days, the seaweed was awful here, but the last couple of days, there has been almost none. The crew here has been tireless to remove the seaweed, but I have not seen anyone even attempt to rake next door. Today was one of those picture perfect days, that has a view that lasts forever.



Unfortuntely, late afternoon the breeze totally stopped and it got really hot. Unfortunately the breeze dying coincided with the electric going off. The electric has been off for approximately 2 hours each of the past three afternoons, and seems to have somewhat coincided with the announced 'load shedding'. I guess it's easy to time that out, when you don't even actually announce it until after the electric has already gone off. I guess it's possible it was posted before it actually went off each day, but we were checking really often and never saw it ahead of time the past three days. Before then, it was nowhere in the vacinity.

This time of year there are many less ships than during season, but this year, it seems to be even less than normal. There was one ship here on Tuesday. I missed it's arrival, but did catch it leaving.



Other than that, there are two ships scheduled tomorrow, and that's it for the 10 days we are here.

Saba has been visible the past couple of days, but not really clear. I saw one other island this morning, but not sure which one. Haven't really gotten a good picture of Saba yet, so hoping the view will improve.