Wednesday- Thursday-Friday
Feb. 24-25-26

Tom wanted to change the oil on the boat so I headed to the pool.  There were three people near me that spoke English with Canadian accents so I seized the opportunity to ask about the accommodations and food at the resort. They indicated it was definitely not a 4 or 5 star as represented in the travel guides but it was ok.  The food not so good except for breakfast. Soon Tom joined us and we spent the afternoon together. Because it was an all inclusive they would bring us drinks from the outside bar. Like the Bahamas soft drinks are expensive and rum cheap so the Cuba Libras(rum and cokes) were really strong. Also because they do not have coke or Pepsi products the coke was not very tasty. I quickly switched to Mojitos .
On Thursday the two gals and I hopped on the bus to go to an indoor market that I had not been to nor new about. Evidently it is adjacent to the French cruise ship dock. We got off the bus at the main stop to have an appetizer and drink at a local bar. We were joined by about six cats when our appetizer came to the table. I was shocked at the size of the market. It was basically a very large warehouse that was being used tourist shopping.  The vendors consisted of t-shirts, nationals baseball team hats, lots of wooden items and paintings. Most of the booths had the same things so once I had gone up and down a few isles I could pick up speed. The majority of the paintings contained an old car in front of one of Hemingway's favorite bars, the fort, or scenes of the city. There were some beautiful nudes, and female faces that were beautiful. What did I buy? One of the car paintings of course a few wooden items and a Nationals baseball hat for Tom.
Thursday evening we all took a cab to the Japanese restaurant in Jamanitas that Tom and I had been to before.
On Friday two of the Canadians left for home but Kathy was staying an extra day.  She stopped by the boat to give us a surprise gift from her friends, their wrist bands. We could now eat and drink at the resort and ride the buses for free.  Kathy and I went to lunch while Tom continued to work on the boat. Friday evening we took Kathy to the yacht club to enjoy the inexpensive dinners and music.  Lobster dinner $10.00. To bad I don't care for lobster! No worries, my $5.00 fish dinner was excellent!
                 

                                                   Kathy from Canada and I hanging out at the resort