Coming live to you from the Beautiful British Virgin Islands

It is a tough life but someone has to do it! Surprisingly, our flights were all more or less on time getting here. We were missing one bag, but we gambled that it would be in on the next flight and waited and there it was! So, off to boat to basically give the crew all the stuff we had brought and we went to sleep about 3 in the afternoon until 8 the next morning! Hopefully that should take of jet lag!
Remember I told you that i used up all my air miles flying first class on AA as I was so angry with them? Well, I guess technically it was business class, as they did not have first class, even though they charged us first class air miles! Business class now means they thrown a few peanuts and a pathetic little meal at you.
I was looking for the foot rests and individual movie screens with 57 movies like Air New Zealand, but no luck there! Oh well, you know things are bad when you are extremely happy to make it here semi on time and only missing one bag!
The new marinas over by the commercial dock seems to be a great gathering point for BIRDS. Lots of seagulls and pelicans!

Bazza was over by Port Purcell this afternoon. This place had burned down almost to the ground last Monday. Today, he said he could swell the rotting food as soon as he reached the dock and going by there was about 100 people in the debris going through it carting away what they could! Truck fulls in some case!! Find that hard to believe, what in the world would you want with whatever had been in there?
This is unusual for us, picking up at the ferry dock for Cooper Island over at Joma Marina. The reason being is we have 13 guests this week, 9 on here and 4 sailing "Jasper" from BVI Yacht Charters, but eating, drinking and diving on us the mother ship!

Our guests were spread out all over the place. Some had to buy 6 new tickets to get here when there connection on Spirit in FLL was a bit late and Spirit told them they could not get them out , like all week! Sounds like the airlines I know.

The next group was a couple hours late coming over from St Martin...

And the last group we despaired of them ever arriving and finally found them on the last ferry of the evening! No picture, we were busy making cocktails by then.
Our bareboat had to be out of the marina by 4 otherwise they could not leave dock, so we sent them off and we waited for the other guests and then had a nice sunset sail over (as we independent boats don't have a curfew and can be out after 5!)

Nice sunset coming across the channel, almost feeling like summer out there now!

We tucked in and rafted up to the little boat. Funny thing about this picture. See the fender B is holding? Bazza had told him to let it go and throw the line to Richy on the other boat! Well B let it go....straight into the water! We figure it is time to give B a week off next week! He can go cause mayhem in Puerto Rico for a few days!

With 13 guests on board, we have two tables for dinner! The guests always hate me the first night as I won't let anyone start until I get pictures. Well, that took twice as long with two tables let me tell you! Plus we had to get the guests off the other boat present and accounted for.

I love the smiles on these guys faces, they are from ear to ear. I think they are saying "if I smile really wide, she will stop taking pictures and let us eat!"

We celebrated a 12 year olds birthday tonight as well.

I thought I saw DVD's coming out from the younger members tonight, but she who has not done charters for a few weeks has taken her sore feet to bed! (this is Kerry not lisa by the way!)
Lisa is playing more divemaster this week and I am taking over most of the meals, well, except for breakfast! I am not getting up that early unless I have to.