Island Living

 We arrived last night with a 3 hours of daylight left to go.  It took us 2 of the 3 hours to get through immigration and rent a car.  We had rented a car from a local agency and felt like they took advantage of us.  When we finally pulled out of the airport in our bright red Mitsubishi Lancer (an upgrade! lol) we immediately saw a sea vista and felt like we had arrived.  Then we started our 45 minute drive through winding roads and mountainous terrain to our resort.  There were lots of people along the roadside....which meant we not only needed to avoid the potholes but the people too.  As it got darker we became less and less surprised to make out a human being on the side of the road as we made our turn.  The population here is predominantly black and beautiful.  The British and the French fought over the island 14 times and each one 7 times.  There are lots of British and French influences here.  Most of the people are descendants from the slaves that they brought to run the sugar plantations.  I'm interested in learning more of the history of the people.

We were greeted with a refreshing glass of limeade upon arrival and was escorted to our villa. We were pleased with what we saw. After we unpacked ...we enjoyed a dinner at the Mango Tree - the resort restaurant. It was beautifully lit up with large paper balls - we had a view of the ocean and the pitons and for a time had the place to ourselves. Dinner that night was a buffet. "Yikes!" I thought in anticipation...but it was quite good. The best part of my meal was the mahi mahi - so fresh and so tender. We tried some of the local bread casserols and the fish with yams was the winner. Mostly we ate the fresh fish, vegetables and salad. We were satisfied.

We went to our room after dinner and closed all the shutters against the light ....then we vowed to sleep until we could sleep no more. We broke the vow at 9:30am when we realized that we could sleep past the 11:00am breakfast deadline. We are now enjoying a breakfast of omelette and fresh fruit served again overlooking the ocean. Today we get a better look at the surrounding rainforest which was blackened by the night at our meal yesterday.

 

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