Wednesday and Thursday, July 15 & 16

Coral Bay and Skinny Legs

Not my legs, it's a restaurant and bar. Skinny Legs is the place to go for a taste of the island crowd. I saw a real pirate last night. Very cool. They have a considerable library of beach books and I'm eager to see if I can add my book to their collection for the enjoyment of folks on the island.

Today and yesterday made for another typical work day. I don't think I ever do the same thing two days in a row. Wednesday was a trip to Trunk Bay to check out the seagull deterrent system I'd installed. I also helped repair a roof structure that was too low. By moving around a few pulleys, we raised the roof (ha-ha) to 6'9” clearance. Now, only the ridiculously tall people will hit their heads.

After work on Wednesday, I made a trip to Coral Bay and enjoyed hanging out at Skinny Legs doing some quality people watching. I stopped at the Jolly Dog Trading Co. and found several awesome t-shirts and more tourist garb to fill my shelves if I ever feel the inclination to clutter my life with stuff. I found some awesome Dakine sport packs which caught my attention. I am one of those people that will happily admit I can never have too many packs, purses, totes, or pieces of luggage. Again it comes down to need vs. want. I always want the new and shiny something. I don't really ever need the new and shiny. We shall see if there is any birthday monies leftover in the next few weeks and maybe I can splurge. Everything is tax-free here... In other news, I have found Presidente to be a tasty choice of those brews available on island. What do you call Presidente lite? Vice Presidente. Hah!

Tonight, there are plans to make another trip out to Coral Bay, this time to AquaBistro, where free wi-fi and a Cocktail-eqsue bar await (read: like the Tom Cruise movie, there is a bartender in a tropical-floral shirt pouring drinks from sunup to sundown). I'm going to happily sip on something hydrating and get some more new fiction pumped out onto grogshopnapkins.blogspot.com or possibly something good enough to keep to myself for now, and let the pages spill into the next novel. I've got a few good ideas brewing and the more I sit down to write, the more the ideas keep on coming.

I forgot to mention, on Tuesday, I met Oliver, Beth's significant other that is here for 6 weeks. He is very nice and seems pretty awesome! He is staying with us at the park housing and it's cool to have someone else here to be excited about the island and all that there is to explore.