20/8/84

Off to Bequia this a.m. We had a very nice weekend. Saturday was the usual. Wash, wash, wash and do odd jobs around the house. Dick & Ann came over after Mass and visited. How I enjoy them! I remember my first impressions of them back in Jamaica. How little I knew then. They are wonderful, warm people and I am thankful for having gotten to know them. We talked about the 'usual'. Plans for our after P.C. life. A smattering of gripes about the St V public service and P.C. life in general. Those gripes are fewer now and much less debilitating. We've all survived and, I think, feel good about that.

Sunday Paul and Margaret and Richard came over and took us up to Buccament valley. We stopped at a quiet spot with another idyllic pool and stream and we swam, picnic and played Judge Dredd (I lost). We've also become quite attached to those folks and will miss them a great deal. Paul and Margaret also bought us some books about France that we plan to peruse to help us get a more detailed itinerary together for our Europe trip. It's a beautiful country (France) and though our lack of command of the French language may be an inconvenience, just traveling the countryside should more than compensate us. I've begun to really look forward to the trip. And speaking of which, I need to check on our final reservations to/from Martinique. I'll buy the tickets next week.

As I said, it's off to Bequia again this morning. Seems we just went but that was July 9th-10th. We're taking Irene along to introduce her to the runnings of the place. Joni and Michael should be back in early September but I doubt we'll see them before we go to Europe. We may be able to squeeze in another trip (our last!) in Oct 22nd & 23rd (or 29th & 30th). By then it will be all she wrote....time is racing.