Another week gone by and not much to tell. The weather has been so hit or miss that we have not been able to go out kayaking since the last post. I have read 5 books in the past 7 days, bout to go stir crazy. Then again even if the weather was sunny we have little to do on the island. Have not been snorkeling in several weeks now.

Chris is learning a new computer program, Sketch Up and how to play the guitar. Jerry, owner of Flamingo Bay, let him borrow a guitar and some lesson books. He spent 4 hours doing so on Sunday, it helps that there is a dvd to talk you through most of the scales.

We met some Californians last week, they come out about 3 times a year and have a very rustic house on the beach just down the road from here in Bains Town. They brought chocolate, which to my surprise I had actually kinda missed. Was nice to visit with people who can relate to being on the island and how long it takes to unwind, I think I am still in this 'unwind' phase since we have not been working on the property in over 3 weeks.

Not that I want to admit this....but we have actually had endure 3 different Nascar races....Jerry is a fan and well he has the only cable tv we can watch.....and football comes on so late here that we are not able to watch a full game. So Nascar nights, Kristy tends to drink to much, trying to make the time go faster.

We did buy our ticket for NYE to CO!!! I am SOOOOOO excited to see my sister and all our CO family. We will be there for 6 days! Now the other tix to TX.....have been kinda difficult to compile, and we have to send the info to someone else to purchase them and of course we have not heard back if they have done so. Fingers crossed that they can buy the ones we need and that we make all the connections.

Hope this next week will be filled with sunshine for more than a few hours.

This hurricane is going to do me in!!! We have not seen the sun in over a week, and the weather will get worse next tues and wed. Being trapped in doors for days on end starts to make you stir crazy. Watching a lot of movies but after a while you just want to go somewhere. The mosquitoes are ridiculous right now with all the rain, I got eaten alive the other day, and with the poison wood on Chris' leg, we are kinda a mess.

Got the news that there is a 500 MB daily bandwidth limit here, GREAT, which means we can't stream any live shows from the computer OR download music....this might make me explode, to think we can't get any new music for a YEAR!!! our MAC went down a few weeks ago, and we have a hard drive loaded with new tunes, filled it pretty full right before we left, well we can't access any of it due to the type of cord it uses!!! I'm VERY music deprived right now and REALLY wish I had my hoops down here. With the lack of dancing and hooping, and over indulging in the cheap beer I have gained weight and feel like a slug. I am to the point that I will take my ipod down to the beach and just dance my face off, might have a heart attack with the humidity but I need some boogie release.

Oh, I alos have a cold right now, no idea where it came from, but Sudafed and Zyrtec are not working and those who know me, know that the best way to torture me is to stuff up my nose so I can't breathe.....told you we were a mess right now.

Other than Tech playing AWESOME last night we are kinda bored. Didn't even get to watch the whole game as we have to go next door to watch tv and games go so late here, we had to finish 2nd half on the computer, not as exciting as hearing it and see the crowd.

enough of my soap box, miss you all terribly and promise the next post won't be so whiny

check out our new place.....we are in the yellow bungalow!
http://www.flamingobayclub.com/index.htm

Another week of no internet, the modem went down at Greenwood. We had a busy week, picked up business partners on Monday afternoon, went straight to the property and spent several hours out there. The next 2 days were spent following a D8 tractor with a GPS and a backhoe digging soil samples. got a lot of things done, including getting one of the trucks buried in sand....not my idea to drive down that road and am SUPER glad it was not me who got it stuck while backing out of said road. So we left it over night and all crammed into one truck, let me tell you the smell the 5 of us created, was terrible!!! esp. after working to get the truck unstuck, digging in sand with our hands.

another laundry experience....even more shocking. OK, so we went to the NEW laundromat, so we thought, walk in and had seen the large front loaders from the road a few days before. Well, out of 8 washers of different sizes and states of disarray, only 2 worked. OK, we can work with that. So, a guy who was attending the place just kinda looked at us, like you wanna wash now, no tmrw dude. So then the girl from the gas station next door comes over to help. She grabs a hose from the back of washer and throws it in, tells me this is faster and the water is not hooked up on this one anyway. OK so now we are using a cold water hose to fill washer, excellent.

We had not done laundry in over 3 weeks and the clothes from the property were filthy and very stinky. Of course we had already bought soap at another store and didn't buy the cold water soap, so we gave it a go. Took 3.5 hours to do 4 loads and there were only 2 dryers in the place. Oh and the cost is outrageous due to high electric bills, so 4 loads was $20, that's a NYC price!

Got to watch some football on Sat. and ended up at the sailing club for the weekly Sat night dance. Hung out with some locals we have spent time with and watched Tech play a great game, just dont like being on EST as the games run so late. We left at start of 4th as it was after 11pm and we had been out all day. Watched the highlights on Sun at Jr.s house. We stopped in to return a chain, the one used to haul the truck out of sand bed and ended up staying for whole afternoon. His kids are super cute and his wife, Peggy is very nice. They cooked us dinner, bbq chicken, veggies and rice, great meal and the biggest one we had since last wed. They have a crab pin on their back porch and grabbed about 5 and tossed them into a pan. They bring them out a while later and Peggy proceeds to show Chris how to eat this mess. The legs are ripped off before cooking the heads. She started ripping the crowns off and yellow goo is flying everywhere, this is where my stomach starts to lurch from the sound, smell and overall fear of what she is about to do. *Grossout factor coming** they rip the crown off and take bread and dip it into the head fat, the yellow goo....Chris said it didn't taste that good, but that the actual meat was sweet.
Peggy tore at these poor things like a champion, eating, talking and spitting out unwanted parts at the same time. I couldn't watch it. It is the messiest eating I have seen yet, she had it all over herself, fingers, hands, face, shirt! She ate 3 in time Chris ate 1....funny but NO way for me. Too much work for noting to really eat.

We moved into a new place today, pics to come later. a great yellow bungalow with a kitchen! got ourselves pretty much unpacked, again, today. got here at 130 and well it's 6 and we are almost done. The place is great, a pool, hot tub, 4 bbq pits, beach access with kayak, wireless! and a garden. Got the info from business partner last week. The couple who own the place are super nice. We feel at home already.

my fingers hurt from typing and now that we have better net connection, I hope it won't be weekly postings only. LOVE you all and stayed tuned for the crazy Potcake Island Adventures, they only keep getting better.
~Kristy and Chris