For a few weeks now Roy has been working on getting us coconuts.  First he learned to climb the trees, it can be tricky because some trees are tall, some are straight, some have ants on them, but others are short and bend nicely with no bugs.  Next we had to learn which coconuts to try to open.  After quizzing the locals on the beach, we learned that when they turn yellow, but no brown on them, then they are mature and young and are full of water.  Once they turn brown, there is that hard nut inside full of meat but little water.  Today we’re shooting for coconut water.

The next problem Roy had to overcome was opening the coconut.  At first he brought them to the boat and took a hack saw and drill to it.  Yikes, the coconut left horrible stains all over the back of the boat, we had the brown type without water, and a big mess.  For Christmas, Roy talked his sisters into buying him a machete. To preserve his typing fingers, Eric devised a plan for using drift wood to support the coconut while he hacked away at it.

Now, with all the pieces put together, we’ll never go thirsty.

I used the more conventional method of acquiring food, the grocery store.  I love CK Superstore.  Compared to the bulk stores in the U.S., CK is very small.  There are 6 big aisles of dry goods, a back section of cleaning and paper products and a hand full of coolers for frozen food.  The best part about this store is their delivery from the check out counter to the dinghy dock, you can’t be that!  Then we go down the street and around the corner to the  IGA grocery store, for anything else on our list.

I always like to lay out our goods, then find places to stash them.  This is what $500 U.S. dollars will get you in Grenada.  The especially exciting items are several bags of apples, deluxe macaroni and cheese, Oscar Meyer cold cuts, fresh (not boxed) milk, powdered drink mix, cake mix for Marie’s upcoming 8th birthday, and other yummy essentials.

After a long day at the market, the lobster guys came by.  I was completely out of money, but Roy flagged them down and bought a little buddy for Topaz.

You know how he loves bugs and sea creatures, he was especially interested in this little guy.

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Eric wanted to free the lobster, but we cooked him up instead.  It made for 3 great meals.  The left overs became a lunch sandwich for me, and for dinner I reheated some meat with pesto and tossed it with pasta.

It’s a good thing we’re on Christmas vacation, because there is no time for school work.  After all that work collecting chow, we needed to cool off.  The kids have been exploring interesting ways to jump off the boat.  I don’t have a problem with the normal, fling your body off the side, but they wanted more thrills.  We devised this idea to protect boat parts and kid parts.  We swung the boom over the side and attached a rope to the end.  This way they could play Tom Sawyer or something and swing out over the side and jump.

Their other idea of fun is to be hoisted up the mast.  They all took turns hanging out by the first set of spreaders looking down on everything.

At the end of the day we were all exhausted.

We had a bit of crabbiness out of the kids so we all decided to go to bed early.  I think we all slept from 7pm to 7am, it was great.