Merry Christmas

December 25th 12:56 pm AST. Merry Christmas from a warm and windy St Martin...the Frenchie side. Well Joyce finally found her way back to the boat 2 days late due to the winter storms in the NW. She is racking up those Frequent Airport Points for spending nights in an airport. Wednesday afternoon just before I was leaving to shop for some needed fresh produce and bread, the French Search and Rescue guys came out through the anchorage suggesting strongly that boats move inside the Lagoon (free on the French side) due to the strong winds that had been forecasted. We have in the past talked about the Christmas Winds...well you people up north want a white Christmas...down here they get the Christmas Winds. Strong trade winds 20-30 knots with gusts into the high 30's. So I followed the crowd into the Frenchie Lagoon. Nothing like the Mega-Yacht marinas on the Dutch side, a little run down and lots of rusting little Frenchie boats. The French love their steel boats, lots of rust. We spent most of yesterday fetching Joyces' lost luggage from the night before. This included an almost 2 mile hike from the airport to the supermarket dragging all her luggage. I seem to remember it being "JUST" a few blocks. The island folk felt sorry and offered us rides...but hell we were almost there. Traffic on the island was not unlike any of the big malls back in the States on Christmas Eve...bumper to bumper. Back to the boat...dinner a few TV shows off of Graboid and an early evening...Joyce still recovering from the flying with airlines trip from hell and me from our little hike. I did get 1 present early...our new cat. Named after Duncan and Elaine's cat called Sooty...ours is named Sootie TOO.


Changing the litter box is a snap.....as for the rest of Christmas and an update of Joyce's airport adventures ...I will leave for Joyce.