I imagine all our Canadian friends in Canada this Christmas Eve, the fire is burning and you have a mug of hot chocolate or a hot buttered rum to keep you warm. You may be doing some last minute shopping for stocking stuffers or your Christmas dinner. The snow is glistening on the evergreen trees and the lights on the Christmas tree are sparkling. Let me tell you about our Christmas Eve in paradise. The day started with us driving in a rental car to get our port lights or windows that need replacing on the boat. These are the same windows that we ordered in Trinidad but when they came they were the wrong size. That was three months ago. We had them sent back and ordered the correct size they were not in stock so we had to wait and would be leaving Trinidad before they would arrive so we had them forwarded to Martinique. They got here before we arrived and since we were not here to pay the duty they shipped them back to the States. We requested they ship them again and found out that we had to pick them up from the airport. We managed to find the Fedex office , then the customs office and then after paying 29 more Euros we finally got out windows,good, mission accomplished.
We hadn't done laundry since we arrived so Barry took the laundry in the car to the next town where we he had to return the car and did it. Well it is Christmas Eve and there were no buses or taxis and he must have looked really scuzzy because no one would pick him up when he tried to hitchhike, so he called me on the radio and told me to come and pick him up.. I spent 49 minutes in the pouring rain, with lightning no less, putting away across 4 miles to get him, then of course there was the return trip. The only bonus in the whole trip was that I saw Santa Claus gliding by on water skis at the Club Med located between the boat and the dock where Barry was waiting. I think that was even stranger than seeing Santa four wheeling at the end of a parade in New Zealand.
I don't think I will ever forget this particular wild Christmas Eve. We did spend the night playing Scrabble and cards so it wasn't a total loss of a day. Hope you had a great Christmas Day, I hope to get a swim in sometime here in paradise.
