We ate dinner there that evening and headed back to get ready for bed. A loud scream coming from my daughter who is in the bedroom. She has spotted a 3 inch cockroach, big and fat. Her father is yelling at me to kill it with my shoe, which I refuse-that would have made a mess. I chase the damn thing around the bedroom in hopes of getting it towards the front door w/ no luck. It somehow manages to get behind the wall unit type closet thing and that was that. So, that night my daughter slept with me in the double bed, her father in the "jailhouse" bed and the lights remained on. We didn't use any covers for fear "Carley the cockroach" would climb up them. Oh and dad slept with his sunglasses on. This is only our first night and my daughter said she wanted to go home. Up the next morning and we head to the Anchorage to catch our group cat trip aboard one of Capt. Yannis' boats. There were about 14 of us total and this was wonderful, the day was perfect. A few sprinkles here and there. You get a light breakfast fruit, pastries, coffee, tea, juice while at the dock. The boat then heads over to Mayreau for some beach and swimming time. The you go over to two of the Tobago Cays, first one we were there w/ enough time to walk to the other side and explore a bit and then onto the other where we are anchored just off shore for snorkeling and lunch which was very good. Tuna, chicken, lentils, carrot salad, cabbage salad, bread, pineapple and of course an endless supply of sodas, rum punch and Hairoun. What a wonderful Father's day for dad. He started out w/ rum punch for breakfast and continued until the end. After lunch you sail over to Palm Island for a swim or shop which we went to the nice boutique. Of course, dad being a bit lit had to make a comment about the men's swimming trunks on display with two coconuts placed well, you guessed in the crotch area. The lady looked extremely bored, so I don't think she minded the entertainment. After heading back to Big Sand we showered which was an adventure. First of all, I am a skinny person and a person who is the least bit overweight would have a hard time moving around comfortably in that shower. The plastic piece that was to hold the hand held shower head in place was cracked, so you had to hold that while you tried to lather up, wash your hair and shave your legs a bit of a challenge. Then out of the shower, I try to dry my hair, but the hairdryer which looked outdated smoked and heated up, but did not blow. I immediately unplugged it for fear of fire. The metal pieces were all rusted over. I dried my bangs with the oscilating fan. I mentioned the dryer situation to Freddie at dinner and he said the sea blast ruins them all. I told him I did not bring a hair dryer because they told me that had them available in the rooms. He said something about ordering more and that he would find me one. I finally rec’d a dryer the 3rd night of our stay and it was pitiful. The hole which the air came our of was about the size of a quarter and it really didn’t dry at all. Freddie did try his best to take care of any issue that needed attention though. After showering, we took our Scrabble game to the dining area and played until 7pm when you could order dinner. At dinner, we realized that our cat trip was excellent, we were about 15 feet from the water playing scrabble with the sun setting and that made our room and Carley the cockroach not seem so bad.
