Good morning sunshine!!!

Beautiful view off the veranda . . .

with a beautiful native!!!

What a difference daylight makes!!!

Sidney was back by 10:00am and it was back to the airport for the rental car and a nice little lunchy!!!

A great location, our house sits right on a hillside overlooking the ocean , , , going to be a full moon on March 1!!!

oh yeah . . . and we are living in a gated community!!!

First order of business was a nice little lunch, which we had at Landhuis Klein Santa Martha also sitting up on top of a hill.

emJay considers having a ‘Dirty Holiday cocktail’ that has vodka, blue Curacao and juice . . . but settled on a beer.

lite lunch of BIG salads. We all felt we needed some greens!!!

. . . so naturally we had room to share two pieces of strawberry cheesecake, made in house, with a lovely berry compote/sauce and whipped cream!!!

Soon it was off to the grcoery store. Centrum is the local chain about the size of a Woodmans! We will be eating breakfast in house, lunches at the beach and on and off with dining out and eating in for dinner. One thing we considered was spaghetti. I went looking for some type of meat to make a sauce with and found what look like yummy sausage. Ended of it was a freezer of dog goodies!!!!

. . . hey, I felt like I was at Woodman’s  . .  .

This looked REALLY familiar . . .

. . . it should, considering it is made 20 miles from Madison!!!!

. . . and Centrum reminded me of Miller’s Market in Verona where the locally employed high school students take your groceries out to the car. Centrum was full of an army of blue shirted young men and Edmund was the nice one who took our groceries out to the car. We gave him a tip!!

Seems  like you can contract for any services on the island to show up at your doorsteps including masseuses, professional photographers, videographers, guides and even professional bartenders. Soon our personal bartender for the week, Carlos, showed up for our evening to assist with our cocktail on the veranda tradition . . .

. . . and started preparing what could become our signature drink while on the island, ‘The Blue Lagoon’!!!

. . . his assistant sous chef, Maria, also showed up to to prepare our pre dinner snacks . . .

 . . .all was good as we sat on the veranda, drinking and snacking, watching the freighters on the horizon and the sun set, planning dinner and our activities for the next week. Carlos also manned the grill and we had a great dinner of basa fish with Indian spices, Israeli couscous and Brussel sprouts. chocolate for dessert!!!

We’ll miss the heatwave hitting MSN this week with a high of 48 degrees!!!