We arrived in Guadeloupe well after dark because of the trouble we had checking out of the country. There are 3 ladies working there and you must see all 3. The sadness is that there is not even enough work for one person, let alone three. One arrived at 8:00, but one didn't get there until 9:45. She wouldn't give Laurie the paperwork to fill out until she had completely finished with each customer...a bit of a control freak. Anyway, we wanted to leave right after 8:00 am, but we didn't get away until 10:15.
On Sunday morning, we upped anchor from Pigeon Island, Guadeloupe and headed to Dominica. Another beautiful sailing day! We were just in time to attend the Sunday night BBQ the boat boys put on. There were over 70 boats in the bay. Many of the boat boys told us that business has really picked up since Laurie wrote the great article about them in the Caribbean Compass, a publication all sailors love to read each month.
Tomorrow, we'll get up nice and early and head for Martinique.
The day after the wedding at Sandals, we took the bride, groom and their friends to Deep Bay. The next day we repeated the same trip with our friends from home.
Here you can see the bride, Lyndsey on the far right. Dara, her new sister in law is in the middle and Dara's husband is on the left.
The next day, we took our friends in our age group for the same side trip as the youngins' the day before.
After arriving at Deep Bay with our friends, we let them loose on the beach and offered up a nice little hike up to a fort for a million dollar view!
Bill and Lynn Cabel, still looking great after all these years!
Here is Jan Pelkey, mother of the groom. She and I worked together in District 18. In this picture, we are cheering Bryan Facey from home! Cheers Bryan! Wish you were here!
Laurie took the group back to the beach in two loads. The first group ran to the nearest bar and ordered up 2 chocolate monkey drinks for us and sent them out for our trip down the coast of Antigua. Many thanks!!
