Life in ocean world

 

So here are the goods on ocean world

In the laundry room where they also do all the laundry for the restaurant, show and casino i think , there was this nice man.  He would sing sometimes and was most pleasant.  Anyway there was this big pressing machine.  Now I have never seen on of these before so I was most impressed.  For those of you like me I will describe it.  It has a bunch of rollers and a heated roller and belts that intertwine around these rollers.  You then feed the damp napkins, table clothes etc through all these rollers.  It dries and presses the stuff all at one time and neatly stacks the items.  I got such a kick out of this machine.   Well one day, he let me put my placemats, pillow cases and sheets through it.  The simple little pleasures.

The ponies were a plus.

We did take a taxi and went to some decent stores and were able to get supplies that we had not been able to obtain.

Laughter

I bought some canned peas (kirk likes peas)  I tried to pick the ones that most matched LeSuer baby peas.  But I guess I did not do such a good job.  Anyone who knows kirk knows that he can judge food by it's appearance, I guess since he has not had a sense of smell for a long time.  Well he did not like the looks of these peas and when I told him he had to try them he was not happy but did try them and YUK THESE PEAS TASTE WOODY.   I laughed and laughed.

We bought grapefruit at the open air market and kirk said that his grandfather used to say  "THIS TASTES WOODY"  it was not sweet and not juicy.  Bummer on the grapefruit.

So the next day I cut up a pineapple that we bought.  It was not sweet like you would think it would be.  In fact I think I bought it in luperon and kept waiting for it to ripen.  Anyway, when he took a bite of the pineapple.  It was not good.  We laughed and said it tasted woody.    So woody became the word of the day for a few days.  I am sure it will rise again as the food is  very different down here.

When we went shopping we went to an open air market where the locals bring their goods down the mountains.  There was a grain sack (3 feet tall 18 inches diameter) filled with oregano.  I bought some.  The vendor just stuck his hand in the huge sack and grabbed a handful and put it in a plastic bag.  I got the best avocados, two of them that I have had in a long time.  They were perfect on the inside.  Heavenly.  Also some delicious red peppers.  Cucumbers not so good.

Most of the people were pleasant.

Here are the bads on ocean world    SALT

The salt spray from the ocean hitting the break wall sent a wall of salt your way constantly.  If you washed your hair and went out side it was gummy from salt like you had just gone for a nice ocean swim.

The boat was constantly covered with salt (makes for slippery decks) 

Now the killer.   It has ruined the stainless.  There is rust everywhere.  the counter top in the galley was a constant battle to keep the rust down. ( I finally ended up covering most of it with a towel so I had less to derust)  the screens looked like someone sprayed them with water when actually it was salt water.  The inside of the boat is covered in this sticky salty film.  I cleaned it so many times there and it just came right back.  I never knew salt could be so sticky but it is.

SURGE

The boat was in constant motion from the surge.  To get on and off was like the carnival game where you shoot at the moving targets only the boat was the target and I was jumping on.

 

Pictures will be in the next post as kirk has my camera now