Steel pan drums

I can't believe that a few days ago I was asking for a breeze, we got it now.  Unlike the prairies, it doesn't seem to go away in the evening either.  It would be nice if it mellowed just a bit so that we could open up the deck doors in the bedroom at night, but we'll survive.  There certainly aren't any mosquitoes out.
Headed off to Flowers Bay this morning for our steel pan drum class.  I had told them before that I didn't have a molecule of musical sense in my body but Deb convinced me that geologists rock and the only person she hadn't been able to teach steel drum to was a rocket scientist.  So I too am a graduate of the intro to steel drum class.

Getting warmed up



We have a good video of the final tune that we played but I don't seem to have the right cables here to download off the video camera......I'll have to u-tube it later.  We were there for 1 1/2 hours and had a good time.  We can't remember if it was Glen and Mandy or Betty and Dylaina that went with us to the Blue Bahia last year for dinner, but it was the woman who did the singing that night that was the instructor.

The rest of our class mates covering up their drums.



Since we were only two blocks from the Cameo factory and it was a cruise ship day (so it was open) we stopped in to see what they had.  They had some gorgeous stuff, I don't know what most cameo type stuff is done on, but this is all on conch shell.  I suspect Eileen is going to dip into the money stash and go back there one day.
Continued on towards the grocery store, since we were already in Coxen Hole by now, and I decided to go a different route, this time the correct direction down that one way street.  Guess what.  There's the guy with the white cooler beside the Church that we've been trying to find for ten days.  He's the ??brother?? of the fish monger that the chef at Blue Bahia told us about.  We picked up two pounds of sea bass filets for $8.  Did them up on the bbq tonight.  Very sweet and mild tasting fish.
Suggested that we stop at the new sushi place in Sandy Bay for lunch (it was still only 11:30).  We stopped in there and found that they were open.  Good decision.  Now we're torn as to whether the best sushi on the island is at Rendeavous or at this place called Takos.  Their Wakame (seaweed salad) was terrific and they had one sushi type roll that was dipped in tempura and deep fried to crisp up the coating that we have never seen before but that we want to have again.  I can't claim to be a well versed sushi connesuir, but these two sushi places in Roatan are by far the best we have ever experienced.  Wasn't a budget lunch, but we were stuffed and well satisfied.
Got in touch with Julie today and made some alternate arrangements for the Saturday catamaran.  There is a van picking us up at the entrance to West end at 8:00 (Ralph and Karen are joining us).  Karen, take note if we don't catch up to you before then.
Dinner at home, bottle of wine, hear a movie playing behind me, life it tough.......Got the morning dives booked for tomorrow, otherwise no plans.  Gotta get to Besos soon, we're almost at half way here.  Only two weeks left......send money, not sure the cash is going to hold up, oh but it's payday in two days; sweet.  I could do this for a living.