Visitors - Martinique

We had visitors last week.

Our friends from Kansas came to visit.  They stayed in a small studio apt in Sainte Anne.

We went, saw, did, explored, ate, drank.....Tom and I fell into bed each night and slept like rocks.  Whew!

We rented a car for the week, taking two full days to tour the island.

And still we didn't see it all.  Not even close!

We introduced them to some of our cruising friends.

There was also a fair amount boat time on sv Honey Ryder.

As well as snorkeling and beach time.

The weather was good while they were here.

Perhaps a little too good.  There was some pink skin but that is quite common with people on holiday.

It was so nice to see them and we had a great time.  Thanks for coming guys!

Cold, Wet Machine

aka Nick Nack aka our dinghy.  This past week with four in the dinghy, we discovered that it can be a bit of a wet ride.  In fact - plan on it.  Tim finally declared it the COLD, WET, MACHINE!!
Check it out.  It's just the raw video - no editing.  Sorry.  But it's funny. 

 

 

Visitors

Tim and Kim

Sorry to go silent on the blog.  We enjoyed having our good friends Kim and Tim here this week so we have been spending all our time getting caught up and enjoying the BVI's vs blogging.  But never fear, we have been taking lots of pics as we explore with them.  Updates, pics and stories coming soon.

KC Comes here

We had visitors from Kansas City last weekend.  Two separate sets.

 
When Tom and I were teaching ASA sailing on Lake Perry KS, Ben was one of our stellar ASA 101 graduates.  He caught the sailing bug really bad - we LOVE when that happens.  He is helping a buddy deliver his Irwin sailboat down the east coast.  s/v Sweet Clarity happened to be in Brunswick Landing Marina awaiting their next adventure south.  Steve (the owner), Ben, and three other guys flew in this past Saturday and took off Sunday morning for who knows where but somewhere in FL.  Luckily we were able to spent a little bit of time with Ben and gang.  Fun crew.  But OMG - typical guy boat trip because provisioning consisted of massive (and I do mean MASSIVE) amounts of ribs from some local rib joint, equally impressive quantities of beer and....wait for it......a bulk supply of Slim Jim's.  Scary.  They had so many ribs they couldn't fit them all in so we were the recipient of a huge bundle - Thanks guys.

Sunday our niece and her family (minus oldest daughter who is spending the summer with relatives) stopped by for a visit.  They are on holiday and have been all over Florida.  The boys checked out the boat thoroughly (man! -are little kids active), we took a walk in the park and played with the musical instruments that are there and then chowed down on ribs (see above), grilled shrimp, corn on the cob, grilled chicken, hot dogs and baked beans - big feast!