November already?
We can't believe it's November. It's a sunny 86 degrees out, and the heat index is 93. And with even more cruise ships coming in each day, we just see more and more people who look and act like they are on summer vacation. Given the weather and surroundings, it's easy to understand. The Disney cruise is here today. Its horn plays the beginning of "When you wish upon a star", so at 4:45pm, we'll all be sitting in our offices waiting for the tune. The ships blow their horns just before they leave port and then on their way out. Not quite sure what the point is, but I like the Disney one....
We spent the weekend resting and relaxing. We swam a little at Sapphire beach on Saturday. Since we're weren't doing any serious swimming we were mostly just looking for interesting sea creatures. We saw a few sea turtles. Sapphire is where Dave has swam with sea turtles before, so I guess they like it there. On Sunday we decided to try out Brewer's Bay near the University of the Virgin Islands. It was super calm though occassionally quite loud because the airport is nearby. We had heard that Brewer's has lots of sea turtles, but we didn't see any. We found two big star fish though.
Last week, a bunch of us from work went to some local restaurants for lunch. One of them, Vio's, was actually started by a co-worker's mother. Dave and I returned this Monday so he could try it out. The first time I got fish soup; Monday I had salmon balls. Both were pretty tasty. I especially liked the johnny cakes that they make. Yum. The other place we went to last week was called Arian's. I definitely would recommend it for visitors, as it's very reasonably priced, good local food, and there is actually somewhere to sit and eat the food. There, I got the saltfish with potato stuffing, plaintain, and dumplings. Plenty of different types of local food to taste there. I also tasted someone's conch, green banana, and fungi. If anyone wants more info on what this stuff is, let me know.
Dave and I went for a walk at Magen's yesterday morning; it was very nice. I'm going to try to start getting up early (6am) and going for a walk before work, and eventually start running. There's not really time to do any exercise after work because it gets dark too early. Swimming before work is okay but definitely not if it's still dark. And I don't really like going swimming there by myself, so that means I have to convince Dave to go, which he's not really inclined to do if he's going to be kayaking and snorkeling all day at work. Also, there are lots of other people walking along the road at Magen's, but not very many people on the beach or in the water - the road and beach are separated by palm trees.
I made dinner on Sunday. I think Dave would agree that the dessert was the best part. I made the Peppermint-Marshmallow Ice Cream Pie featured in the August Cooking Light magazine. Yesterday Dave made a super awesome dinner. We'd been craving Rubio's fish tacos, so he found a recipe online that claimed to make them. They were excellent!
Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween.
We spent the weekend resting and relaxing. We swam a little at Sapphire beach on Saturday. Since we're weren't doing any serious swimming we were mostly just looking for interesting sea creatures. We saw a few sea turtles. Sapphire is where Dave has swam with sea turtles before, so I guess they like it there. On Sunday we decided to try out Brewer's Bay near the University of the Virgin Islands. It was super calm though occassionally quite loud because the airport is nearby. We had heard that Brewer's has lots of sea turtles, but we didn't see any. We found two big star fish though.
Last week, a bunch of us from work went to some local restaurants for lunch. One of them, Vio's, was actually started by a co-worker's mother. Dave and I returned this Monday so he could try it out. The first time I got fish soup; Monday I had salmon balls. Both were pretty tasty. I especially liked the johnny cakes that they make. Yum. The other place we went to last week was called Arian's. I definitely would recommend it for visitors, as it's very reasonably priced, good local food, and there is actually somewhere to sit and eat the food. There, I got the saltfish with potato stuffing, plaintain, and dumplings. Plenty of different types of local food to taste there. I also tasted someone's conch, green banana, and fungi. If anyone wants more info on what this stuff is, let me know.
Dave and I went for a walk at Magen's yesterday morning; it was very nice. I'm going to try to start getting up early (6am) and going for a walk before work, and eventually start running. There's not really time to do any exercise after work because it gets dark too early. Swimming before work is okay but definitely not if it's still dark. And I don't really like going swimming there by myself, so that means I have to convince Dave to go, which he's not really inclined to do if he's going to be kayaking and snorkeling all day at work. Also, there are lots of other people walking along the road at Magen's, but not very many people on the beach or in the water - the road and beach are separated by palm trees.
I made dinner on Sunday. I think Dave would agree that the dessert was the best part. I made the Peppermint-Marshmallow Ice Cream Pie featured in the August Cooking Light magazine. Yesterday Dave made a super awesome dinner. We'd been craving Rubio's fish tacos, so he found a recipe online that claimed to make them. They were excellent!
Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween.
posted by Kendra at 12:38 PM
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Your post made me hungry! And I agree, Rubio's fish tacos are very yummy.
I had a Rubio's fish taco for dinner last night! Maybe Dan and Shannon can smuggle one in for you when they come visit :)
I have the feeling by the time they get here, it wouldn't be quite as good. A coworker is in DC this weekend though and he's bringing back Cinnabons. Yum. :) Cinnabons or Krispy Kreme are what we ask for whenever someone from work goes to the states.
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