Another Day…Another Experience! Friday night at the Pub was quite busy. There was a huge group from Birmingham AL having quite a good time. They were playing this game at the pub and the hoots and hollers definitely got everybody interest. It is basically a box with several other boxes inside, with dowels set up in it. Object was to knock them over with a spinning top. There were points for each dowel, even negative points for a couple of them (See Photo) Needless to say it became more an more fun as the night went along for these guys!
I met Don and Susan from Canada. They are on a sailboat in the harbour. I also met their friend John, a solo sailor. John lives on his boat now, originally from Boston. They apparently have been following each other port to port and having fun. They invited me to join them for lunch the following morning, so I did just that.
Yesterday, after my couple hours of work, I decided it was time to get the Kayak in the water. Plus I needed some sun. It was a beautiful flat day in the harbor. I paddled around a bit, went over to a little beach and walked around then headed to Pete’s to meet my new friends for lunch. I was close to the dock when “bam” … I flying fish hit me in the head, seriously! I ducked when the second one flew by. I watched them both hit the water and bounce like when I used to skip rocks as a kid. Lunch was great, heard some great stories from Don, Susan and John’s sailing adventures. I ordered the cheeseburger and John ordered the Tuna Sandwich, we shared half of each. Really good idea. Both are to die for. However, every time I told my flying fish adventure… I would hear, “What have you been drinking?”…. LOL Well, I wasn’t drinking and it really happened. So there! My new friends were making plans for Sunday… what to do? They thought they might walk to Cherokee. Whatever! We decided to meet back up at Pete’s for happy hour. They had planned on playing the spin the top game again. Teams this time and John and I would be honorary Canadians for the night! OK, I’m in! They did ask me if I could lose the accent for the night and add an “a” to the end of a couple sentences… “Pretty good fish, a?” Yep… I’m in!
I met Danielle and Rob at Pete’s around 5:30, Heather was there. We made a great plan for a girls trip on Monday, instead of Sunday because Heather was off and she could go with us. John was the first one in, then came Susan and Don. Here come the Alabama group… They hit the game immediately, and the drinking. HA HA! I got distracted somehow for about 15 minutes and I came back …Don, Susan and John joined the game, sorta. After I told Danielle and Rob goodnight, I also joined them. It really wasn’t as rowdy as the night before. We never ever had our team challenge to test my Canadianism… I didn’t even play, I just watched. The game died early so we just sat and talked and made plans. No one even ordered dinner. I love how quickly plans can change around here and no one cares… you just roll with it. So for about 30 minutes, after some fish tales, we planned a day sailing trip for Sunday. The guys knew when we should leave, where we should go, where we should fish and snorkel, Susan and I were planning lunch… I was getting excited! Then… John said, “I’m not sure what the wind looks like, we will have to play it by ear”. Susan saw my iPhone and said, “Will you look up www.sailflow.com” Well, of course I would. I get the site up and hand it to John and he says, “Oops, we are off to plan C, there is no wind tomorrow”. Wow, that was close. I almost got to go sailing. Maybe another day.
I walked home around 9. Even after, yawning all night at the Pub….I could not sleep last night at all. My back was hurting, numbness in left leg… UGH! My disc once again. I took something for the pain, “Will cause drowsiness” – NOT! So I finished season 2 of “The New Adventures of Old Christine” I laughed so hard… she is so freaking funny. I fell asleep around 3:30 am and I woke up to a thunder storm around 6:30… lots of rain. It was beautiful to hear, actually. Great for the cisterns, not so great for the solar panels, if it stays this dark all day! It’s gonna be a long day. It’s almost 8 am and it’s still dark. John was right, no wind.
I am about a third of the way through “The Poisonwood Bible” – may get a little deeper in today!
Oh and by the way, Hermit crabs also like cheese, moldy or not!
