Not an ideal Sunday

So it's a Sunday morning.... we've been here a month now and we STILL haven't been able to go to church... it's kind of bumming me out. Our December schedule looks good though! I'm sitting here on a Sunday morning and am stuck in the office for no real reason... one of the inefficient ways they do things here. There are three ships in today and I would be much more useful on the dock (not to mention that's the part of my job I love!)

Oh well, life goes on. We got out a little early yesterday and went to check out Morning Star beach which is the Marriott beach. All the beaches here are public, so even if it's a hotel beach, anyone can go. I love it cuz each beach has it's own character and it's fun to check 'em all out! We have a day off tomorrow and it think we are going to go check out either this kayak tour through the mangroves or this bike tour over on Water Island-which just became the 4th US Virgin Island! These tours and many more are FREE to all those friends and family who want to come visit us!!!

We found the library on Thursday and got library cards.... which was a pretty exciting event because we had tried to go to the library three times before that and it was always closed. Just because a place lists hours, doesn't mean that's when they are ACTUALLY open.

We went to CUZZIN'S for dinner the other night. Trip #3 people would have had the pleasure of eating there - the conch (pronounced conk) fritters and the Johnny cakes - mmmmm!!! It's a local West Indian food restaurant and it's so good! Eating out is expensive here so we don't do it often, but it sure is a treat!

Tidbits:
They play four commercials here that really get on my nerves:
1. The "I wish I could go back" woman - who wishes she would have acted when she felt the first signs of a stroke

2 & 3. Two commercials about kids who are "under the influence" - they make it seem like they are on drugs, but then twist is to say they are under the influence of their teen volunteer

4. The one with all these kids asking their mom millions of questions about what they should do in case of a terrorist attack. The commercial says your kids are good reasons for a family to have a plan.

All these commercials are so uplifting and some of them will play twice in any given commercial break.

There is a Saturday/Sunday paper here; you drive on the left; newly discovered beverages are Ting (like carbonated grapefruit juice) and Elephant Beer (uh-it's Danish-see the connection?) The Green House down the street recently posted a "Help Wanted from Matt White" sign, the Disney Ship is AMAZING!!!, we figured out how to install a wireless card in our computer, and we went to sleep at 8:30 last night.

Thinkin' about ya:
I can't get the voice of Alison Stroczkowski out of my head... this whole "Jando" name has stuck and i can still here her excited discovery of the name on the Roberts Weslyan campus... i think that means, Alison, that you are supposed to move out here and work on one of our giant cattamarans!

I have a ship on tuesday that's all rich Germans! I don't speak German! We'll see what happens...