Month: March 2018

We were walking down the street a warm breeze blowing,on our way back to our boat. We were looking for Gigi’s dentist, were many people recommend we go to for our teeth cleaning.
“It’s supposed to have a more modern look and have a wheelchair ramp, right?” Heidi asked.
“I think that’s right.” Replied Mom.
We are going to get appointments today if we can ever find this. I thought, still not completely excited to get my teeth cleaned and not knowing what they are saying to me. I tried to remember the Spanish I had learned in 4th grade….
“Lucy, I think this is it.” Sally said and pointed to the building waking me up from my thoughts.
I looked and it was, indeed a modern building with a wheelchair ramp, and lots of teeth on it.
“Looks pretty right.” I said and started up the ramp.
We went inside and it looked like any other dentist. Couches, lots of “perfect teeth” pictures, and signs (which I couldn’t read-they were in Spanish), and a T.V. filled the waiting room.
“Hola!” We all said and got more “hola’s” in return.
“¿podemos limpiar los dientes por favor,.” Mom asked which translates to “Can we get our teeth cleaned please?”
She answered yes we wrote down our names and then we just ended up waiting then.
Oh, I thought yikes, I am a bit nervous.
“I am not going first!” I exclaimed making sure not to be the first one.
“Me neither.”Added Sally, then Heidi.
We waited a while and then after about 30 minutes, they called back Mom. I realized I would be the 4th one so I had some time. We played hand games and whatever for a little bit until I was called back.
I went into the room and was handed a towel and clip on thing. I just held on to the napkin unsure of what to do with it.
The dentist told me a bunch of things in Spanish then pointed to the chair so I lay down on it. Few, I thought this isn’t as hard as I thought. Just then another dentist came in and started talking. There was a long silence after a question that maybe I was supposed to answer but I don’t think I was cause just then they started cleaning my teeth. It was good same as all other except a little bit quicker.
The dentist stopped then said something in Spanish this time I knew it was to me and pointed to a glass of water. I drank a little not sure what to do. I didn’t have any toothpaste in my mouth.
“No,no, spit” said the dentist, ohhhhhhh I thought that makes more sense. I was still thinking how to say I am sorry in Spanish when the teeth cleaning started again. Oh, well I thought and the dentist was very careful to tell me to spit from then on.
It was done soon so I went out.
“Yours good to?” I asked and everyone except dad said yes. I must have looked confused because dad exclaimed I have “quatro cavities.” .
I was pretty surprised.
“Did you know what to do with the napkin they handed you?” Dad asked and when the rest of us just held it, of course, he put it behind his head.
The rest of us laughed so hard you could barely hear dad explaining why he put it behind his head.
We all walked home with clean teeth.

Haha we made it! Hi again! We did our passage and we are super and happy in the Dominican Republic! It is great here and there are lots of things to do.
In the morning it is a nice cool tempeture and is good to be outside in. At 9 am though it is SOOOOOOOOOO HOT outside and there is no wind. By 12 am there is some wind and it gets cooler, slowly but surely☺☺ We have walked around town, all of us working on Spanish. The locals are very kind and friendly and you are always greeted with a big smile. They are also very supportive of our Spanish even if sometimes it is mixed with so other language. Hahaha. We went to the fruit stand many of times. They have the best pineapple and papayas I have ever had!! The first time we had it I couldn’t stop thinking about “I love papayas, yes I do.” Hahaaha. They also have lots of different cheeses and salamis which were all very good. The scenery here is beautiful with mountains and green everywhere. The lush trees and exotic flowers are a great break from beaches, don’t get me wrong, I love beaches, but the mountains and forests here are spectacular. We have been having a great time here and I can’t wait to explore this beautiful island more.

Hi everyone! We are currently on the way to Dominican Republic on the first out of the three days on the passage…all is well so far ☺️We had been in Rum Island prior to the passage we are on. There was lots of snorkeling and we found three conch and Dad caught a lobster. On the beach there it was beautiful and we spent part of the days collecting shells, sea beans, and running with Willie on it. We had lots of fun on that anchorage and we are all looking forward to the next anchorage.
Since we are on a passage right now I am going to explain what it is like.
So we each have a certain time we do watches at night so that we can all sleep.

Also someone cooks the food so we each are doing something.

My favorite part of passages are at night when it is calm and you can see the whole Milky Way.

The wind on the boat the moon on the sails,
your heart in the ocean,
your happiness all there.
The stars are shining,
the dark water has blue caps,
the moon is so bright,
and then you tack.
You breath in and out,
a cool breezy air,
you feel as if you’re the only ones there.
The waves are rocking,
so happy,
so free,
there is no feeling that is more happy.
Your eyes are wide,
there is so much to see,
and you think to yourselves,
wow, I am so lucky
We are trolling during the day but we still haven’t caught anything from that.☹️

During a passage when I am not on watch and not slepping I am probably
a) reading
b) sitting on the bow
c) writing a blog post, what I am doing now
d) cooking food
e) resting
f) any other thing that isn’t that hard to do and keeps you rested

Well, we are all good and happy and I will try and keep on posting and tell you what adventures this passage brings us☺
Guess what!! We just saw a whale jump out of the water in front of us and we hooked a blue marlin!! It was super cool.

Hi everyone! This is Lucy. I am going to do a blog post because we are in the Exuma’s! It is very pretty here in the land and sea park. There are lots of white sand beaches and turquoise water. School is good because I finish at 10 a.m.  An average day looks like this…….

I wake up then run with Willie on the beach

Eat breakfast

School

Go swimming

School

Eat lunch

Go swimming, snorkeling, paddle boarding, Windsurfing, or hiking

Do that for a long time…

Eat dinner

Play game

Go to bed

So far the Bahamas has been super great! Eleuthera had  great and super nice community. The land and sea park had fantastic outdoors and water. We also met really nice people there. Staniel Cay was good. We went to Thunder Grado and saw the pigs. We also went to the church there where they welcomed us with open arms. It was a really neat experience and showed in more detail part of their great culture. Now we are in Black Point settlement, which has grocery stores, laundry, and you know basic town things. There are lots of jelly fish here. Some are moon jellies and I am not so sure if any of them sting, saying that, I am not so sure I want to check!          

Snorkeling…..

The sea is below the sun up high 

The fish in the water 

Sea turtles are waving good bye 

   The water is clear

    As blue as can be

     Now it seems nothing in the world could be so pretty.

Snorkeling was great in caves and more, there were fish galore. You would get to the caves and it would be all dark then you would look past it to the fish and see the light blue glow of the ocean. It looked like it came out of  a Disney movie.  The cave inside seemed very dark with light jutting out of the sides and even if it felt dark you just swam over to a little light and be able to swim through it. It took awhile for your eyes to adjust once you were back out in the light. But the darkness of the cave with thousands of fish in it was almost as beautiful as when you made it out to the light.

 

Talking about it being dark, at night the stars are so so so so so beautiful. Some nights you can see the whole milky-way! There are so much some nights you can barely make out the constellations because all of the stars are overlapping and together.

We have met so many nice people and tried lots of new things. It is teaching me lots of things and I know I will continue to learn more, 

We have been having a great time and we will continue to have more fun! Until next post….

The one and only

Lucy

Hi from Sally. I’m going to tell you about our awesome visit to the ‘Sea Aquarium’ snorkeling reef at O’Briens Cay in the Exumas Land and Sea Park. As we got our snorkel stuff on, I was thinking, this seriously can’t be like an aquarium right? Turns out I was totally wrong…

When I hopped in the water, a million fish instantly surrounded me—crazy right! As I started swimming, my hand brushed against a beautiful black and white zebra fish (Sergeant Major is the real name).  They were close all around us! Dozens of teal, green, blue and yellow parrot fish swam by and I knew I’d never been snorkeling anywhere this cool before! As I was hopping out, something big swimming below caught my eye. I then continued to get in the dinghy—which is really hard with flippers if you don’t know how to flip in! Luckily I do! When I got in the dinghy, I heard mom say “guys, guys—sea turtle”.  You don’t know how much my family gets exited about sea turtles! Everyone jumped out of the dinghy at the same time! Below, three sea turtles went swimming by in the ocean current and we swam behind them following along! Mom told us that one of these sea turtles had waved to her, too!

Our next adventure was to Rocky Dundas that legend has it were sacred sites for the Lucayans.  The caves feature both stalactite and stalagmite formations and you have to time your visit with low tide and calm waters so you can get into them more easily.  They look like pretty, cool snorkeling caves.

-💕Sally💕

Hi this is Lucy. As of right now we are in Long Island but so so so much has happened before that! We got here from Georgetown yesterday….
Georgetown was super fun! I met lots of friends there and we played on the beach and had campfires! It was really really fun! There was this rope swing where you could climb to around the top of a tree and swing down! It was scary at first but then very fun! We went on hikes, swam and competed in many events! We did the coconut challenge- a challenge where they put a bunch of coconuts in the harbor and you had to paddle on your dinghy to try and get the most. Then you had to throw them at a target and toss them into a bag. The next event we did was the kayaking race me and Sally both did it and I got 2nd and she got 3rd in the kids section! Congrats Tortson!(Friend who got first!) And then we did the downwind dinghy race which we used our windsurfer sail, paddle board paddle, and lots of ropes(lines) to make a “sailing dinghy”! We got 5th, but we didn’t really know it started! We were setting up the sail and then all the sudden there was a different sail in my face! Then the inflatable dinghy came and I was squished in between two! I scrambled to get into our dinghy and we were a little behind, not the greatest start! hahahahaha! Anyway we had tons of fun and that is all that counts right! The day was full of tons of fun and we hung out with our friends afterwards! We also went to a variet show there, I can’t believe I almost forgot that! There were Bahamians as well as cruisers in the variety show! I got picked to go on the rake and scrape, this Bahamian dance thing but yeah it was pretty embarrassing but hey, everyone else seemed to think it was funny so hahahahaha. The rest of the variety show was pretty cool except for when dad totally embarrassing did the rake and scrape with some pretty interesting moves! We are now safe and happy in Long Island and had a great night at Tiny’s! If you ever go to Long Island definitely go there! They have the best conch fritters ever and WiFi. Hahahahaha. Well all is great here! Until, next post
The one and only
Lucy