St. Martin April 7, 2013

We have been in St Martin for a little over a week.  We have been anchored in Baie de Marigot on the french side of the island and have not moved except to move up closer to the marina where the seas are more settled.  The wind has been up and so have the seas.  It looks like a weather window on Monday so early Monday morn we will hopefully head south.

We have done more on the island than before.  We have visited Lagoonies, a fun bar on the Dutch side, twice.  Once for lunch and once for a happy hour put on by Budget Marine.  The great thing about Lagoonies is they have fresh vegetable juice.  Heaven, I'm in Heaven.   It was soooooo good.  The food was pretty good also.  In fact, we were there for my birthday!!!!  Kirk is enjoying the french bakeries with the baguettes and other wonderful goodies.

We shopped at Island Water World (boat store) and got a bunch of stuff that we have been putting off buying till we got here.  We treated ourselves to a new grill since we could not replace the worn parts on the old one as they had rusted together and would NOT (and oh boy did we try) come apart.

We have heard a bunch of the boat names on the vhf radio that we heard in Grenada.  Kinda like ole home week here.  We have seen Sunny and John (our buddy boat for the night sail) and have enjoyed them immensely.   We were invited for dinner by Marty on Santosha.  We met Marty and Gabrielle in Georgetown, Bahamas last year.  Was great to spend time with him and also meet new people.  When we left Grenada in November, we did not think we would cross paths with Santosha again.  I am so glad that we did!!!!   Sorry to have missed Gabrielle as she is in the Bahamas at a yoga retreat.

 Kirk ran new wire for the freezer and connected it and we now have a working freezer that is not cycling on and off due to low voltage.  A whole new world has opened up on the sailing vessel Ainulindale.  We will see how things go with the batteries to see if it will be worth having it run.  Will be so nice to have ice in the freezer!!!  Kirk is so smart.  We both worked very hard, however, I am just the helper.  We were both pretty exhausted and went into town to try and get some "french" food.  We did have a delicious dinner.  There was a festival of some sort going on with live music and lots of people.  Do not really know what is was about as all in french but was fun to walk about.

Sorry no pictures.  There are some of St Martin in last April and May's blog posts.