I realized I never posted my blog post from a few days ago…so here it is…

We’ve never been in the Caribbean in a rain storm, but there’s a first for everything. 

The rain started during the night. When it first began, it was a pleasant sound as it gently tapped on the roof, but as the night went on, the rain picked up force and the wind started blowing fiercely, and they both joined forces to pummel the metal roof.  

We were lucky that it ended a bit by breakfast so we were able to get to the buffet without getting very wet at all. We had brought our rain jackets so we were fine. 

However, the heavens opened again after breakfast and we stayed in our cottage and read, played five crowns, and I did some knitting. 

We met Dick and Sharon to walk over for lunch at Sails and Tails, but before hand, we went and made reservations for dinners for the upcoming days, as well as procuring a day pass to Verandah s neighbor, Pineapple Beach. We also made a dinner reservation at Pineapple’s grill for another evening. 

We started walking to lunch and it started to rain, and by the time we arrived at Sails and Tails, it was raining hard and the wind was blowing in earnest. 

We were seated, and the chairs behind us were blowing into our table and the rain was really coming down.  We asked to move further into the restaurant and were seated at another table. But by then, the wind was really ferocious and we were getting very wet, so we had to move our table again.  It’s an open air restaurant with a roof, so not much protection. Unfortunately, they must have lost our lunch order because we sat and waited for well over an hour and a half and still, no lunch.  Dick finally asked to move to the bar area where the wind wasn’t as bad, and they seated us there, even though they don’t usually allow eating at the bar. I was shivering at that point and finally, after they put our order in again, we were served. 

By then, it was pouring and when we finally walked back to our cottage, my pants were drenched.  We hung our wet clothes up and just climbed under the covers to warm up and take a nap. 

We had dinner reservations at 7 at Portofino restaurant, and so around 6:30 when there was a break in the rain, we hightailed it over to the restaurant and waited till they were ready to seat us. 

Dinner was very nice. I had bruschetta with chicken livers for an appetizer and had mahi mahi for the main course. Allan had an eggplant appetizer with the mahi mahi and he had peach Melba for dessert. 

After dinner we made our way to the Wavy Wicket for drinks and then walked back to our cottage. It was still raining, but the wind had died down so the walk wasn’t too bad. 

Hopefully as the song says, the sun will come out tomorrow!