BATS!

I took a few really cool shots of some bats outside our front door last weekend.  They swoop down catching bugs and then like to hang out on the banana tree in our front yard.

A Grenadian-American Thanksgiving

Although Grenada celebrates its Thanksgiving in October, we decided to celebrate American Thanksgiving on the traditional fourth Thursday in November with a turkey and all the usual trimmings.

There were no pilgrims or indians, but we had three students (2 med, 1 vet) and their amazing wives...

Pumpkin pies ready to bake...

A little island mimosa action for the hard-cooking ladies

An example of the frustration that comes with cooking on this island...

the oven was set for 25 degrees less than necessary

and pies were in for 10 minutes less than they should have been 

Sheridan's Chocolate Oat Bars...mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

The turkey is stuffed and getting injected with all kinds of goodness!

Into the oven it goes! 

Turkey bag = no basting and extra moist turkey!

Cooked to perfection!

The dinner table set for six

The spread of amazing food!

Clockwise from top: stuffing, "crack bread", mashed potatoes, pineapple-peach-cranberry sauce,

green bean cassarole and of course turkey! 

(not pictured: gravy, pumpkin pie and chocolate oat bars)

Hard cookin ladies! (Sheridan, Sherry and me)

Hungry, hungry students! (CW, Matean and Monty)

2nd Thanksgiving as husband and wife!

1st Thanksgiving on our own!

First Anniversary, Second Honeymoon - Carriacou

To celebrate our first wedding anniversary, CW and I took a trip to Grenada's sister island Carriacou.  We traveled via ferry to stay three days and two nights at the Carriacou Grand View Hotel.

 In St. George's waiting for the Osprey Ferry

 Boarding the Osprey

 Sitting on the lower deck of the ferry

 The view of St. George's from the top deck

A Starwind boat out for a sail

 

Ocean 

 Arrival in Carriacou!

 Fooling around

 A church in Hillsborough

Somebody had lobster for a beach cooked dinner

Coke in tall glass bottles

Enjoying Ann's Place

My lunch was lambie (conch), rice and vegetables, callaloo (like spinach), potato salad with fried plantains.

CW had the same but with pork

Day two began with a swing on the beach

Video clip of seaside swinging

And of course I climbed a tree

Taking in the beautiful scenery

Now what? Lets go to Paradise Beach!

The Hardwood Cafe at Paradise Beach

Video clip of lunch at the Hardwood on Paradise Beach

Paradise Beach!

The view from our hotel room balcony

Hillsborough Bay at sunset from the front of our hotel

Ready for our Anniversary dinner at Bogles Round House, very fine dining

CW lounging in a barrel chair at Bogles after our amazing dinner.

I had the lobster! He had the red snapper and we had bacon wrapped scallops for appetizers.

Outside of our hotel

Pelicans

Collecting seashells

Thats our hotel, the Grand View, up on the hill

In the distance is Grenada's third sister island, Petite Martinique

Heading back to Grenada on the ferry

Back on the pier in Carriacou

Our ferry got about 1/4 of the way home and had engine trouble and had to turn around.

The larger ferry came to take us home

Just in time to sail under the Caribbean sunset

CW is not ready to go back to school after our vacation