Blowing the conch shell at sunset

Thursday April the 4^th

   Slept late, not leaving at first light!  We did have guests coming for dinner so George walked to the grocery store while I cleaned up the boat.  We went to Curly Tails for lunch so we could call Jack and Greg and let Gerta talk to them.  Rey came by to tell us he had forgotten about a previous commitment and would not be coming by for steaks.  We promised to cook him one the next morning for a bunch.  Bill did come and as usual we enjoyed talking to him.  He has bought a house in Marsh Harbour.  Last year he was building a house on Cat Island. However, after his recent marriage he decided to buy a home in a more populated area.  She is from America and he feels she would be happier near Marsh Harbour.  He invited us to visit him in his home next week.  He also told us we should go to Spanish Wells while we were here.  We are going to take a look at that possibility.

Gerta talking to Jack

This one is for you Carolyn and Courtney, yes a Goom Bay

Friday April the 5^th

We are still a little tired from a trip and had a very lazy day. It rained most of the day but that was fine with us.  It will finish washing off the boat.  George washed the boat on Thursday but nothing like a good rain to really get the salt off.  In fact last night we had some lightening.  We met the people in the boat next to us.  They were from Denmark but lives in Philadelphia in the summer.  The ironic thing is that they keep their boat at Brunswick.  In fact there are five boats here from Brunswick.

 Henry and Enny, Barbara and Mike were all here last year.  Enny was the lady who blew the conch shell so perfectly every sunset. 

Saturday April 6^th

It rained off and on all day but that just gave us a good excuse to rest.  I think we are still recouping from our passage.  We wanted to go to the same church we attended last year so we called and made arrangements to be picked up by the bus. 

on the way to meet the church bus

Also on the walk to the Public dock

Sunday April 7^th

We walked to the public dock to meet the church bus.  We were the first to get on the bus.  In fact the driver, Ricky was about 15 minutes early but so were we.  The bus went into neighborhoods that most tourists never see. It was a very interesting ride.  We stopped at several houses where the adults just sent their children, some as young as 4 or 5 years old.  The driver told us, “Oh yes this is the time the adults can get rid of the children.”  We went by one house and a lady stuck her head out and said, “ I just got out of the tub, come back by.”  So we picked up a few more people and went back by. She was still not ready but I could tell she had made some progress for she had her make up on, but she again stuck out her head and said come back around.  The driver just said okie dokie….He also made some remark about if a lady asks for 10 minutes always give her 20.  We kept stopping and I wonder where everyone was going to sit. I even had a little boys sitting in my lap.  When the bus was full the bus turned to go to the church.  Rickey let us out and then headed back to pick up more people and hopefully the lady that was not ready before.  The children we picked up were well behaved and the older ones seemed to instinctively take care of the younger ones, even if they were not family.  To my surprise a lot of people remembered us from last year.  It was again a very up lifting service.  We went to Snappas for lunch.  We did not realize when we when into Snappas we would be in the middle of an award ceremony for a regatta.  The Regatta included some kids that were around 8 -10 years old. 

 

Sunset from the docks