Simpson Lagoon
Sint Maartin
18.02.721N
63.05.616W

Today was field day on the Palace. I’m one of those kind of people that likes to live comfortably. I keep my kitchen and bathrooms clean and chase after the dust bunnies when I see one but more often than not, the clutter starts to build. After being in St. Thomas and St. Martin, my souvenir shopping was just tucked into places where they wouldn’t fall if we listed; now they’ve been relegated to their assigned spots until the end of the cruise. Dale tidied up his area, I cleaned up the stateroom and we both attacked the salon.

The Palace was clean and dancing in winds that ranged from 5 to 25 inside of the lagoon today. We’d heard that one of the boats lost it’s mast yesterday in the Heineken Regatta and wondered how things were going today with such extreme changes in velocity and direction.

Our show and tell with Bob & Lorilei went well and we invited Gerry & Nicky to come over afterwards to join us for hors d’oeuvres. They were gracious enough to wait until after Bob & Lorilei left to ooh and aah and tease us about it being the 1st time in a month that we had made the bed (it’s best on a boat in this heat and humidity to leave the bed open and just fold the linens at the end of the bed).

As the sun sank beyond the horizon, we brought out the Mexican Dominos and started to teach Gerry & Nicky the game. We told them that it was part of being a cruiser. We were corrected and told that they are not cruisers, they are passage makers. OK then, they still needed to learn the game to take to all of the distant anchorages that they would be visiting. It’s just one of those things we all do when it’s raining, the boat’s already been scrubbed, and you can’t do anything else.