We had a great time with our son and daughter in law this past week. We had beach time with shell collecting, snorkeling, even spotted a large iguana. He was about 2 to 3 feet long, the guys on the beach said they saw a 6 foot iguana. I am just glad the 6 foot didn't want to try and eat choper when I had him tied up in the shade!
We did a walk through a mini rainforest. Greg said it was only the first layer of canopy compared to Panama's 3 layers of canopy. Chopper tried to make friends with a horse. We rented a stand up paddle board. I was thinking it would be nice for the boat, but Greg didn't like it, to much balancing needed and you can't carry anything on it. Maybe an inflatable kayak?I saw a picture of a clear bottom kayak in St Croix,that may be cool.
The kids enjoyed the snorkeling and Tanya found some nice shells and things to bring back for her class.
The chickens run wild in St croix, some people think of them as rats. The guy from the rental car place says as a kid they would catch then to eat, but the kids now don't bother with them.
We went to a cruzan rum tasting on the beach. Andre',Tanya and Greg enjoyed it. I was driving so none for me. I was the driver all week because Greg forgot his license when we went to get the rental car. I think our blood pressure is high now since I had to drive on the left side of the road. I only got mixed up 2 times. Ahhh. Between the stress of driving on the left, Greg yelling and seeing his life flash before him,we did survive.
Greg had to cut his hair, twice to get it right, stil not right ,they shaved him. He had to go to the guard unit in St croix to let them know he was here and will start drilling. I do miss the long hair.
We left for St Thomas yesterday after dropping the kids off at the airport to head back to the frozen tundra of Potsdam NY.
Not a bad sail over ,other than a large ship not seeing us and coming a 1/4 a mile in front of us after his adjustment of course. Greg had been trying to hail him on the vhf and I was shining the large flash light at them and on the sails. Greg had to alter course and slow down once we realized where his stern was and that he was going to pass in front of us. Greg wanted to avoid hours wake. They finally responded after passing bye with an apology, they were on a shift change when he noticed us. You've got to be on your toes at night. We also saw a few squalls on the radar, one disapated and just some rain with 20 knots of gusts.we had 2 reefs in the sails so we were good.
So we are in St Thomas, I have a working interview wed. Life is good. God had blessed us.
