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| Rainbow off St George |
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| Shamal dressed in world flags |
A Very Very Happy New Year To You All. We hope your festive season was a happy one.
How time flies, here we are nearly at the end of the first month of 2019!! Yes
I am a little late with another posting
to the blog, but we have not yet set sail for more adventures this season.
We sat out the latter part of the hurricane season in
Prickly Bay, Grenada. Made new friends, and when not doing boat maintenance, or
visiting the local area, we enjoyed the peace of the bay and lots of swimming.
It is so nice to stop and reflect on all the great adventures we have each
season. We do a trip into St George each week to the fruit and vegetable
market. See photo for an example of an imported New Zealand Honeycrisp apple
from the supermarket,, and yes I am talking about the price per apple. Local money $8.22 – converts to NZ $ 4.47, so
we left that behind!! The local mango
and pawpaw are much better priced, and yummy. Passionfruit are in season, so
this all makes for a lovely fruit salad. The fishing is good if one knows where
to drop your line, so we enjoyed lovely fish meals as well. As our water maker pump died, I collect rain
water, and we have not needed to buy water which has been great.
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New Zealand Apple
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| Local Mango and Pawpaw |
Then in early December we flew up to New Jersey to spend
Christmas and New Year with our daughter and her family. After only being their
three days our daughter had a work trip to London for five days. Her husband
flew to the UK to meet her as he had not been to London before, and they were
able to see the Grand Old City all dressed up for Christmas, and have a few
days together which is difficult for them with their busy schedules. So Nana
and Poppa were left with the twins, who are now six, to get off to school, and
the baby who is 14 months old. It all worked very smoothly, and we were so
grateful for that quality time with our grandsons.
