Goodbye to New Friends

In the short time we've been here, we've found some precious new friends. Unfortunately, we said goodbye to two of them today.

We met Debbie back in October... at the Halloween hash. And we became instant friends! She & her fiance, Bill, have been living on their boat for about 5 years. They were here in Grenada waiting for hurricane season to pass. (Many of the boaters stay here for the winter because Grenada is below the hurricane belt.) Although they were planning to head north in early January, their plans were sidetracked due to a family emergency which required Debbie to go back to the states. She'd been gone for 2 months and just returned to Grenada last week. If the weather holds out, they'll be leaving this weekend. So we spent today with them at the beach, and said our goodbyes... for now. They're hoping to make it to Puerto Rico before this year's hurricane season, so we have no idea when we might see them again. (Of course, we'll keep in touch with them via Skype!) Guess I'm getting used to these "long-distance" friendships.

As promised, I'm also including a few photos of our guest bathroom where I painted sea shells on the wall to match the shower curtain. I've never done anything like this before & wasn't sure how it would turn out, but I'm pretty proud of it! (There's also a "before" photo so you can see the tacky contact paper that was on the wall!)

Till next time...