Day we spent on planes and automobiles for many hours. We arrived at the airport just before 10, Sheldon dropped us then ran vehicle to parking. Our flight left late as we had to de-ice but finally we took off about quarter to one arriving in Toronto at 4:30 am our time, 6:30 theirs. It was raining and plus 9.
We had a Tim's beverage and breakfast before waiting for our next flight to our destination, St Lucia leaving at 9:30 am. The 4 plus hours flight had us landing at about 4:30 local time, we lost another hour crossing the ocean. Lamie our driver picked us up after getting thru customs and began our island touring heading to our first home called Cashew Villa.
Actually the first stop was at a gas station to grab snacks and a bottle of the local rum called Chairmans reserve. He introduced us to a cold Piton beer. On the windy but scenic drive to Soufriere he stopped at another hole in the wall to get us another ice cold piton. The road up to our villa was more like a goat trail with narrow switchbacks and pothole dirt.
We arrived at Cashew at about 4:30, our housekeeper Berthia (pronounced Buff-ee-a) gave us the tour. The boys swam and we all enjoyed more chairmans and pitons :-) The rental included breakfast material but since we just came up and saw it was quite a hike we decided not to walk to town to eat. Darren whipped us up an onion and potato omelet which filled the void perfectly. We met the neighbors in the lower suite from Ohio and they gave us many tips since this was year 13 for them in St Lucia. They also loaned us bug spray saying there was lots of mozzies but in actuality we never saw many but thank them for the spray.
We all were fairly tired after a day of travel with little sleep for most. After a shower, we all retired early at around 9 pm.
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