Thursday, July 8, 2010

Bermuda: Day One Saturday, June 12

Exhausted, I got up at 4 am.  When I first get up, I can't open my eyes for a while.  Tom had set out glue traps "just in case" and I accidentally set my Kindle on it.  That glue is sure strong. My Kindle, with it's 10 new books for this trip and later, can't go.

Tom kindly let me put all my books on his Kindle so I brought that instead.
No more incidents, thank goodness!

We got to the airport in time for our 6:20 flight.  While at our Atlanta layover we heard from our son who might be able to get some time off work to join us.  WooHoo!

The second plane wasn't too crowded, so we were able to spread out.  That's always nice to have the extra space.

The plane had taken off and was gaining altitude.  I was just settling in and happened to glance out the window when the plane tilted way over to my side. The wing which had been horizontal dipped down, pointing at the houses below us.  Most everyone screamed or gasped. Much later the pilot told us that there had been a heavy plane ahead of us we had been in his jet stream.  Even Tom, who has flown rickety planes in scary places had only seen a dip like that once or twice.

The rest of the trip was uneventful, thank goodness!  Tom took some pictures out the plane window.

We got a taxi to the place where we're going to stay, the St. George's Club. After checking in, unpacking, taking a few pictures, we headed off on foot - no rental cars here - to the nearest town, St George.  We're on a hill so there were lots of stairs to go down.  No interesting restaurants were open so we got four bags of groceries, including hot buffet stuff, and hauled those up the stairs.
We did have a nice hot meal, cheaper than the restaurant here, and stuff for later so the hike was worthwhile.

Dinner, a short nap, then we went out exploring. 

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Above, from our little downstairs deck

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Looking from our bedroom to the huge bathroom

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Hot tub overlooking the water!

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Bedroom.  Tom is looking out on the upstairs deck.  We never used that.  There was no shade so it was just too hot and sunny.

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That safe was just too high up.  We never used it

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Kitchen

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Living/dining area

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I spent a LOT of time in the right hand chair (better shade!)

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A bit of tv, a smidgen of rum punch (not as good as Barbados' Mount Gay but good enough) then bedtime.

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