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19 December 2008 - Friday

Christmas Lights in Grenada!

As we were coming home last night, we came upon this fantastic display of lights! I don't know exactly what this building is (there are about 5 in this complex), but apparently they've been setting up this display for the past 10 years. People can walk through this whole thing... it's amazing! Keep in mind... we calculated that electricity costs down here are about 3.5 times more than what we were paying in the US!

16 December 2008 - Tuesday

Christmas is coming!

We've been pretty busy over the past few weeks. Since Thanksgiving was so much fun we've had a few more friends over for lunch dates! Jimmy is an older Scottish fellow who lives nearby... he brought me some mint plants for my garden. Tony & Gisela retired here from Houston (although he's a Brit & she's German)... they've been extremely helpful to us over the past few years. And Tommy (another Brit) opened his home to Scott when he came down to buy us a vehicle. Mike & Jackie brought us a few more herb plants from their garden as well. They're the British couple that managed our property for us, and were our lifeline to Grenada! He's a fantastic gardener and always has goodies to share from the garden!

I finally got a hammock for the veranda! I'd been waiting about a month for the store to get them in. Apparently they were arriving here by sailboat & the rainy weather held them up. It's a wonderful place to "hang out" now!

We were on the go every day last weekend! On Friday night we attended a special dinner & cabaret show put on by the Grenada Hashers, then Saturday was their Christmas Hash... we were told to wear something red so I got out our Santa hats. Although this was one of the shortest hashes we've done, it was almost all hiking through a dry river bed... very rocky, with lots of trees & shrubs! Most of the time we had to duck under the fallen trees. (In the photo of Scott, you can see a pile of shredded paper near his feet... that is how they mark the trail we are to follow.) Afterward, we stopped at a roadside bar on the way back. Scott & I have stopped here (Runaway Bar) before so we invited the others to join us!

On Sunday we were supposed to attend a 5:00 rum punch party... invitation was for everyone who participated in the Thursday Quiz nights. We had all intentions of going, but got a call in the morning with an invite to a small party on a sailboat! Tony knows this guy who is captain of a sailboat that's available for charter. He said he was looking for some photos of the boat, so I offered to do it for him. It's a beautiful sailboat! We didn't sail out anywhere... just hung out because he had some repairs that need to be done on it. (Nothing you could see in the photos.) So we had an enjoyable afternoon (& evening)... and never made it to the rum punch party!

I've been working on making curtains for what we still call the "pink" room... our guest bedroom. I know... we've painted over the pink, but that's what it'll be called forever! I chose to make balloon shades because we could pull them up above the open window & don't have to worry about them getting dirty from the screens. I'll show more photos of that room later.


That's all for now! I'll try to make another report in a day or two!


Oh... here's a shot of the pink room before we painted it! ......