I just finished what will probably be my last walk around downtown Nassau. I took a very similar route to my first exploratory walk two years ago. Not much has changed. The Starbucks is in a different place. But the guy outside the Bahamia store is still claiming that it “just opened” and the guy outside one of the jewelry stores is still claiming that they are having a going-out-of-business sale. And it was just as hot today as I remember it being on that first walk.
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Well, the end of our tour is rapidly approaching. We have the Embassy Independence Day reception this weekend, the following weekend we will be (hopefully) finding an apartment, and the weekend after that will consist of final pack-out preparation. As usual, I feel like there’s so much to do and so little time. But in some of the time I probably should have been using to do something productive, I put together a slideshow of some of my favorite pictures from our two years here. (For those of you that want to compare, you can find something similar from our Kyiv tour here.)
This morning we took Laika on her last trip to the beach. She likes the beach – lots of things to smell, and sometimes we take the ball along – but hates the car ride there. So a morning at the beach is usually a treat for her, since we can only handle the half-hour drive with her whining and pacing in the back of the car every once in a while. As part of her last weekend with us, I definitely wanted to give her this treat one more time. It turned out to be a great trip.
The past week and a half has been a little bit crazy. Approximately 10 days ago was the beginning of the first quilt show I have ever been involved with. Since it was put on by my quilt guild, there were a couple days of set up, and a reception, and work manning the show. In the middle of this, I had to go to Charleston, SC for work. Isn’t that just great timing?
Two weeks of vacation is my excuse for not blogging this time. We got back from the US a few days ago, but the official vacation time off from work lasts until Monday. Most of our time off was spent quietly with family, but we did spend a few days in Chicago, just the two of us. Highlights were finally seeing Wicked and daily brunch (my very favorite part of any vacation!).
Remember when I mentioned this? Well, the embarrassment of bananas is here:
Where has another month gone? It’s hard to believe it’s the end of September. I’m finding myself wishing for sweater weather while we continue to have days in the upper 80s. Yes, that’s right, we may be “so lucky” to have sun and warmth all the time, but I miss the seasons. I am holding out hope that our autumn is right around the corner, though. We went to the beach on Sunday and the water felt much cooler than it did three weeks ago…
I’ve decided to revive my “Realities of Foreign Service Life” series — at least for this post. I should preface this all by saying that my commute this evening took 40 minutes. To go approximately 4 miles. You read that right — 4 miles in 40 minutes. As in a 10-minute mile. Or what I do on a treadmill. So you can probably see where this is headed.
Before we moved to Nassau, I read a book called An Embarrassment of Mangoes. It was about a couple who traveled around the Caribbean on a boat for quite some time (it was at least a year, I think). Anyway, they got to one point in the year and talked about how there were mangoes everywhere. Well, we are to that point in the year here. There are three mango trees in our yard and they are all covered in fruit.
We had our first random celebrity sighting downtown today!
“The Little Couple” was pretty easy to spot since they were being filmed for the show. At least I assume that’s why they were preceded down the sidewalk by a camera operator, a guy guiding the camera operator (since he was walking backwards to film them drinking their Starbucks and chatting with friends…), and a boom mike operator. Then they were followed by a whole pack of people — other tourists trying to get in on the action, I guess. It was pretty crazy!