A Week of Surprises

Monday, November 07, 2011

Another week has passed and this one was full of surprises.  The weather has remained cloudy, rainy and intensely humid.  There have been some sunny periods but the humidity makes the hotter than it was the month of October…. but no complaints.  I am pretty acclimated to it though it does make me  tired feeling.  The last time that I bussed it back to camp, I had met Pat from SC.  She called and asked me to meet her in Cruz Bay on Wednesday about 3pm and said she had rented a jeep.  So, I worked extra hours Tuesday and Wednesday morning Randy said to take the truck to Coral Bay and leave it there and hop the bus.  When I got out of the truck and started walking down the street I found myself looking down at what I thought was a $100 bill!  It was soggy and dirty but the find was a great way to start the day! 

I then was offered a ride from a woman who turned out to be a massage therapist who has been on island for twenty years, lives on a boat in Brown Bay with her husband and is off to Costa Rica for a 500 hour massage course.  Then she and her husband will be sailing to Australia.  The plan has been in the works for a long time.  She gave me her card and also told me there was a Buddhist temple on St Thomas which is on my list of things to go explore. 
I spent the day in Cruz Bay sending some cards, doing some errands and was going to the local library to check it out.  I arrived there to find it closed, bummer, so that will have to wait until another day.

At 3 I met Pat who was coming in from the Reef Bay hike led by park rangers and she had met Mike and Wanda who are volunteers at Concordia (see Maho Website) which is part of Maho Bay camps but on this side of the island.  Pat offered to give them a ride back to Concordia since we were headed that way to Salt Pond to snorkel but we stopped at the Marketplace first for everyone to get anything they needed.  Mike and Wanda gave us a tour of their digs when we got to Concordia and by this time it was a little after five so we decided to forgo the snorkeling and just go out to dinner at Aqua Bistro (http://www.aquabistrostjohn.com/) in Coral Bay.  I have been there three times now and it is high on my list.  There is a great chef.  We shared fish called wahoo…done to perfection and each had salads along with, of course, rum drinks.  We had great conversation and after dinner she delivered me home to Viers… having to drive her rented jeep through the rough terrain of the Lameshur Bay road complete with puddles that now are threatening to reach the floor boards!  We need to dry out soon!  A great day all around. 

Pat’s craiglist find for accommodations were fine but she had decided to find a place in Cruz Bay and tripped into this little villa in town but she had to agree to let her villa be open during a wine tasting that was happening on Sunday evening and kind of host and pour wines.  She told me she would see if I could come and help out too and it seemed like it might be interesting.  She called to let me know the owners were fine for me to come.   So, I thought I would plan on going into town on Sunday to do that. 

In the meantime… I was waiting to hear from Cathie and her husband Ed from back home who were down in St Thomas on vacation… and I had told Pat that that might change plans….. it is feast or famine here!  Nothing has been going on and all of a sudden.. all this activity. 

I am going to stop here… so that I don’t post too much at one time. 

I know that this is difficult to read in this vertical column type of format.  I tried to make some adjustments.  You cannot see as much of the background picture but  hopefully it is easier reading!

So… look forward to the rest of this past week’s adventures in the next post which will be tomorrow or the next day….

To be continued….

Keeping you posted….