Happy birthday to Matt! The boys slept in and started the beautiful day slowly. After a pancake breakfast we decided to make a plan for the day. Since we water logged our remote we had to go to plan B and use our remote for the main. Luckily we were able to get our anchor up, get out of the bay and head toward Union Island. We were heading back to another favorite bay called Chathom to dine with our friends Vanessa and Sookie. We have had the pleasure of eating at their hut several times and are always anxious to return. An easy motor sail into the bay, crazy winds and tides all over so I relinquished the helm to Matt and assisted Wayne with the anchoring. Vanessa came to take our dinner reservation and we headed over to Aqua Bar and Grille to capture the internet code and have a few frothy ones. Little Deerin, the cat below became my fast friend!

King at the Aqua Bar and Grille makes mean pina colada’s. Not normally one of my drinks, but 2 in I was out for a nap. I awoke to some fabulous jerk chicken wings which to my surprise I ate heartily. After a bit of relaxing, I made some sugar cookies, we all took a quick shower and headed over to Vanessa’s. It was a lively crowd with 8 folks from the U.S. and a few others from France. Of course I got to talking to the U.S. folks and discovered they are from Chicago (gave me some great tips for my upcoming girl’s trip) and we shared boating chatter about insurance, health care, paint). They were lovely and we hope to stay in communication with them. Vanessa out did herself as usual and prepared creole conch, mahi mahi, bread fruit, pumpkin rice, salad, and plantains. It was a hearty, fantastic meal. Back to the colorful boat (Matt connected our LED lights so we were lighting up the bay), enjoyed some sugar cookies, gave Matt his last gift (we had been peppering him with gifts throughout the trip) and enjoyed a night under the starss.