Saturday, my day off! It was pretty much a lazy day. I went to the beach in the morning, did a little reading, talked to Jordan, took a nap (went to bed too late last night), then went on the Sunset Cruise on Heavenly Daze, Bolongo's catamaran. We boarded at 4:15pm, sailed at 4:30pm out toward St Croix, then over toward Frenchman's bay in Charlotte Amalie, the capital of St Thomas. The bay was originally a dead end bay until the US bought it and the military wanted one way in and another way out (for submarines), so they blasted out the bay leaving two islands but three ways into the bay. It does look quite nice actually. We saw where cruise ships dock, you can see the hospital on the side of the hill in town, and one of the popular shopping centers. The sunset on the way back to Bolongo was beautiful and the colors seemed to last for a long, long time. There was the captain-who has lived here since he was 28 (much older now, lol), and two crew members, Jolene and Theo. Theo is an islander who comes from a very large family. He has 14 brothers and 5 sisters. He was the 8th child. I can NOT imagine having that many kids!! But he seems to love his mama, lol. Jolene moved here with her boyfriend from Florida and will be returning to the mainland in about two months. She calls this a "means to an end". Now I am back at Bolongo Bay Resort and ready to have some dinner. There is a steel drum, one man band outside playing. He got the rhythm, mon, but not a very good voice. It's interesting to hear the intro to a song here, thinking it's a song you recognize then all of a sudden it turns into a song with a calypso beat! Kinda weird.. It was nice to get out for a bit. It still seems strange to actually live in paradise and not just vacationing. It's been one week since I got here and I am thinking I need more time to acclimate. There are no laundry services at the resort, so on Monday, Janee is going to drive me to the place she gets her laundry done (it is almost cheaper to have someone else do it rather than try to do it yourself!!). What excitement, aye? I will be back to work tomorrow so will have another update then. 'Night all!!
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