Happy Thanksgiving From the Virgin Islands!

What is it like to have Thanksgiving in the Virgin Islands?

It is always fun to watch the news with all the Winter storms that effect the travel for this big holiday. More fun to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with everyone all bundled up as I am sweating getting the turkey stuffed!

Thanksgiving here is all the same, except for the warm weather. I got a 21 pound Butterball turkey for $1.79 a pound and all the fixings!

This year I am thankful to have my father down to the islands! I think it may be 35 years since the last time we have been together for Thanksgiving!

To start the week off, I took him fishing for Wahoo, but all we caught was this from the cooler.

Followed by dinner at the Yacht Club

A trip to Jost Van Dyke and Soggy Dollar Bar with a friend who had some of his friends here.

Thanksgiving breakfast of a omelette. 

Turkey is now in the oven and we have our dear friend Adam coming over from St Johns. 

The rest of the weekend consists of for Black Friday, the dogs first day on the new boat as Chukar has succesfully completed his heartworm treatment! Saturday will be our first trip to the Baths on Virgin Gorda and Sunday we will have to go to a sports bar since my father is a dumb Patriots fan and that dumb team is on at the same time as our terrible Jets. 

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! We are thankful that we get to live in Paradise! 

Happy Friday

It is that time of the week again for Happy Friday! I am running out of things to write about on here, any suggestions would be appreciated?

We have been really busy with out of town guests.

We had Al and Tina from California stop by for a day on the Carnival Glory. We met Al and Tina almost ten years ago when we were all on a cruise through the Panama Canal and have kept in touch with them all these years. We took them to Magens Bay to the beach for the day with some Pizza at Island Time Pub in Red Hook.

Then it was off fishing and caught some Wahoo.

Then taking a friend from High School and her family and friends to Jost as they were here staying on St John.

And finally taking a group of friends over to Cane Garden Bay on Tortola and then Soggy Dollar.

And of course, we had another visitor come by, this tarantula.

Now we have guests in from where we used to live in Driggs, ID here for a few days, so it will have to be Jost tomorrow, fishing Saturday and watching the Jets beat Buffalo on Sunday.


Have a great weekend!

Boating to Cane Garden Bay and Jost Van Dyke, BVI

This past weekend we had our boat warming party as we just purchased our 2011 World Cat 320 CC, named the Louly III. We had 12 friends on board. We started out of the Compass Point Marina on St Thomas, stopped in St John to pick up some friends, checked into customs on the West End of Tortola and made our way over to Cane Garden Bay on Tortola.

Compass Point

A Little Champagne on the Bow! 

 Cane Garden Bay is a popular stop for cruise ship passengers when they visit Tortola. We were fortunate to visit on a non-cruise ship day. We were one of two boats and a handful of tourists that were staying near by.

We went to Myett's for lunch and sampled some of their homemade rum. Food there was typical Caribbean beach bar food. http://www.myettent.com/restaurant.htm

Followed by a walk down the beach!

Gather the troops and off for desert at Soggy Dollar Bar on Jost Van Dyke!

Sandy Cay 

And then it is "Adios to Jost", that time of day. 

It's weekend days like these that make you really appreciate how lucky we are to live here!