How we are spending our time in St. Lucia

Below are some pictures of how we spend the rainy days onboard.

For those of you who ask what do we do everyday.

If it looks like this outside …

then you can pretty much consider the day wasted.

There isn’t much to do.

You don’t want to go outside.

You don’t want to dinghy in to town.

So you …

Catch water.

Play on the iPad, read, play an instrument,

and watch movies until it clears up

and your able to go into to town and use internet and visit with other people.

Where we just found out that the ARC Boat race is on it’s way now to St. Lucia. So we have decided to stick around and see all the boats and celebrations. It sounds exciting. You can track the boats here http://www.worldcruising.com/arc/viewer.aspx And learn more about the event in their page.

So we will be here in Rodney Bay for a few more days. Which works out because the weather isn’t good for leaving for a few more days anyway. But it’s okay because Ryan and I both enjoy it here, more so when we are able to be ashore, but enjoying a few lazy days just the same.

Just a quickie

This isn't going to be a long blog it's just a quick "we are alive and well" blog. We are currently in Bequia making our way North. Ryan has a job interview waiting in the Virgin Islands. Sounds like we will be in St. Thomas (Honeymoon Bay, Water Island)for a little while; maybe through Christmas, then over to Trellis Bay. We will be there for several months, depending on the job. I will sit down and write a better / more in depth blog when we quit rushing North. Until then, Hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving. Love, Jen & Ryan

Complaint Department

So I was sitting and visiting with the family when I heard “I only check the blog about once a month, because SOMEBODY doesn’t write more than that.” Well I’M SORRY. After almost two years I am running low on topics. We don’t travel very fast and we don’t do a lot of action packed adventures that are story worthy. Plus the internet SUCKS in Grenada.

Yes I know that I am now in Oklahoma and internet is not a problem but here I have two new problems. 1.) My computer is dying a slow and painful death from exposure to the salt air. Therefore the port side of the keyboard no longer works and it is slowly creeping to the starboard side. So writing a blog like this takes twice as long as it should because I have to use the onscreen keyboard. Oh yeah, YOU try writing an email without q, w, e, 1-5, or any of your function keys. In fact, I don’t have your blog address, maybe you could send that to me so I can follow you. (Ok yes that was a little angry but I don’t know what it is that I am suppose to be writing everyday. Do you really want to see us grocery shopping and doing our laundry?) How about a compromise I will try to post more pictures when I don’t have anything to write. Deal?

Oh and the other reason I haven’t wrote while home is because I am trying to make the rounds to see you all in person. So yeah buddy keep complaining and I will move you down the list.

Besides I looked at the counter and I average 4 blogs a month. So there!

So dear readers, if you are like SOMEONE and you too would like more blogs. Maybe send an email and tell us what you wanna hear about or see. It sure would help. Or better yet fill up Ryan’s email with complaints, when was the last time any of you have heard from him?!

But seriously thank you all for following our blog and I am glad that you like it and want more, I will try harder.

 

Until the next time that I blog here is something to keep you busy…Find the cat hiding in this picture.

Yes there really is a cat.

Internet Nightmare

It is practically nonexistent here in Grenada. There is only one free signal in the harbor and it rarely works, but from what I’ve been hearing the paid internet isn’t much better. So once again I am apologizing for not posting and answering emails in a timely manner. Ironically Facebook is the only site that consistently comes through, even if it is only for about 10 minutes. That is enough to send out a message if only to say, yes we are still alive. It is also unfortunate that the internet is out because, for a change, we have things to report here.

As many of you know, Marilyn flew home for Sophie’s birthday and a month long visit. Well she has decided to stay in Oklahoma. She is taking her farm back. We received an email from her today and she seems excited about the change. She already has a pickup, and is beginning to remodel the rent house, she is even planning on taking up pottery work again. So needless to say she is going to be very busy. She will still come sailing, but now she can pick when and where.

Ryan has been busy as well, he has passed all his surveyor tests (We all knew he would.) and has made a boat delivery to Trinidad, in addition to getting our Sandy Dreams ready for the trip back north. We have talked about it and have decided to go back to the Virgin Islands after hurricane season. Ryan has already had a few job offers there and is getting a little itchy to get back to working. (I think he has run out of schooling options and repairs on Sandy so he is getting bored.) We will leave after I return from my trip home to Oklahoma.

As for me I have been busy with my artwork. I have been accepted into a gallery and will be taking some pieces in while I am home. I hoping that it goes well and that I can get into a few more in the USVI’s.

Sissy doesn’t have much to report, she misses Marilyn and goes to her room looking for her often. She has a Dr appointment tomorrow to get all her health certificates and shots up to date. She is not looking forward to it but we hear only good things about the staff/students at the veterinary school.

The weather has been rather unpleasant for the last few days, it is either raining or hot and muggy, both ways make it hot inside the boat and difficult to get things accomplished outside. So I have been rearranging cabinets and ‘hiding’ things from Ryan. It is a job that has been needing to be done and is fun to watch him look for the bowls and other things I’ve moved. Not much else going on, I am counting down the days until I am home and Ryan is counting down the days until I get back so we can head out.

I hope to get to see some of you while I’m home and excited to see those I already have plans with. (6 more days!)

Miss you all and hope everyone else is doing as well as we are.

Ryan on Catbird’s delivery to Trinidad.

It is an 82’ CatamaranJuCa came over for a day of arts and crafts and swimming.

Ryan at a jam session.

Me at morning yoga.

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