We didn't sleep well last night but sort of made up for it this morning. Arose about 6ish but still no perfect sunrise or daybreak to speak of. Overcast and cloudy skies but the rain from last night is long done.

Basically this was our no-no day - no plans, no agendas, no places to be or people to see. We attended the orientation which we usually don't do but it's always nice to catch up on the newest boat trips if you're of a mind to do one......? And we were so we listened to all the different spiels and booked the day sail we wanted and also took the BOGO so kindly offered from Dr. Doug a few weeks ago and booked the trip back from St. Bart's for the family on Saturday. After which, we did some business errands and picked up a few supplies we'd forgotten to order through Jeanie. Boy, I love the GrandMarche at Porto Cupecoy!! And you can still charge there on most credit cards.

The rest of the day we lazed around and did not much of anything. No beaching - no pool. We checked out the Maho Beach cam and since there was no one there to speak of, DH and Granddaughter, having seemingly recovered from her migraine of the morning, ran over hoping to see the Air France come in. They missed it by about a minute and then waited around a bit but got tired of watching. At least I was able to see them waving to me on the camera which I thought was kind of cool. They gave up on planes after a bit and went to the Dunes and played penny slots for a small deposit each, and in doing so missed the big AA coming in from Miami. Back to the room and it's nappy time. We had to rest up for our big night out.

Twenty years ago I promised myself I'd NEVER subject myself to another evening at Cheri's and until this evening I hadn't. Oh, the things we do for our Grandkids.

Dinner consisted of three soups - one of which was lobster bisque and the other two French onion gratinee and surprisingly, all three were very good. DH had a rib and shrimp BBQ plate and we ladies had incredibly huge burger plates. The burgers were not bad but too big for my taste. The only negative to the dinner was we were expecting traditional BBCs when we placed our order and while they were okay, they were only okay - no chocolate drizzle and not as tasty as so many other places. Dinner came to $100.00 with no gratuity and they do charge and show the TOT on the bill, but no s/c so we gave that to our waiter in cash.

And then the show began - it is what it is. The musicians were pretty good but it really hasn't evolved much over the years and the clappers still drive me nuts......some might say not a big trip, that. But we stayed and enjoyed most of it before saying enough.

And here we are, tucked away in our aerie at the Towers, with the breezes drifting through the unit and ready to call it a night. All in all, for a no-no day, it was pretty much all good in the end.

We've heard all the cautions regarding mosquitos and acted accordingly but in all honesty, and admitting we haven't really ventured that far afield yet, we have not seen any anywhere we've yet been, and there have been a lot of nighttime rain showers of late.

And for anyone interested, the golf course is almost green again and well mowed but even with the rain showers, still possibly in the worse over-all condition I've seen it in for years. But still they play. Boy!! Do they ever........ <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />