One day alone!

Thursday February 29, 2024

With the departure of the Coffeys, Munchie and I had to spend an entire day by ourselves!  I'm so lucky that my darling bride still likes me!  We do love our time together.  Our time alone is usually quite routine, at least our routine!   I get up early, can't sleep in, don't know why, just can't.  Sometimes I'm up before 5am!  I try to stay abed until at least 6am so as not to disturb Munchie too much.  Doesn't always work!  So I get up and make coffee, my one domestic chore permitted by my bride!  I often use this early morning time to work on the blogg! 

I have missed going out for a bike ride or a brisk walk early in the morning!  I haven't picked up a bike here yet.  I have to scout out some "bike routes" that aren't on the busier roads as the roads are generally narrow, no shoulders, and often have lots of potholes!  As a cyclist, you really have to stay aware and keep you head on a swivel!  I haven't been doing a lot of walking either due to the tendentious in the achilles.   Fortunately, it is slowly improving!  I have been testing it with some short strolls in the area.  So far so good!

Once Munchie gets up, we usually have a homemade bran muffin with our coffee and then will play a game of cards or yahtzee!  I know, we are live wires!

We did get a visit from a small troop of green monkeys!  I was talking to one of the neighbours, Jay, from Ontario.  He and his wife bought a place here 20 years ago.  He said the monkeys are considered pest here and can be quite aggressive!  I believe that as I saw a couple of them chase a cat away!  Jay said there has been talk of the government putting a bounty on them to help control their numbers as they have no natural predators here on the island.

Today decided to check out the Welcome Inn, now operating as the Barbados Beach Club.  This is the place we spent the month of February at, in 1990!  We enjoyed the nostalgia of the visit and reminisced about our time there in 1990 with Tom and Laurie!  The room on the left, ground floor was ours!

After the visit to the Inn, we zipped up the the Sheraton Mall.  I needed a cell phone mount for the dashboard and we needed some dominoes!  We were able to find both!

We went down to Dover Beach for lunch.  We stopped at Johnny Cools Jazz and Blues Bar!  What a great name for a bar!  The jazz and blues playing in the background was very cool!

View at Johnny Cool's!

Hmmmm good!

We went back to the villa after lunch and after another wonderful meal compliments of Munchie, we spent some time "breaking in " the dominoes!  So far, Munchie "0", Johnny "1"!

Tomorrow, Dan arrives!  We are looking forward to his visit!

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