Oh boy our Visa card is smokin hot after Friday’s shopping adventure. But before all that, Sundog (our friend John’s boat) was splashed on Thursday. In the heat of the day (around 2 pm), the travel lift brought Sundog down to the water. John’s boat is a bit smaller than ours – it’s a Catalina 36 – and it fit easily in the travel lift. Mark and I lent a hand to help John take his boat over to his slip which is 2 piers away from us. John did a great job getting his boat into a very narrow slip (if his boat was a foot wider it would have been interesting) and we had it nicely secured by about 3 pm.
We got going very early Friday morning trying to avoid a late shopping day. We had the car and were on the road by 8:30 am. We started our provisioning extravaganza with a visit to West Marina (a very popular marina store) and found the few items we needed (some rope and clips). That was probably our quickest stop!! From there we went to Home Depot (with a little visit to Starbucks – need that coffee for this kind of shopping), Walmart and Costco!! Our rental car was quite small so the packages really piled up!! It’s a good thing Mark and I were only shopping for 6 weeks (and John was only getting things for the next few weeks until his partner Sharron arrives) because we wouldn’t have had room for much more.
After Costco we went on a hunt for some aged rum. Puerto Rico doesn’t have many liquor stores because you can buy most alcohol in the grocery stores. We tried at 2 places that said they were “liquor stores” but they were more like bars where you could buy a bottle (if they had it). We ended up stopping at a grocery store that had a good selection of rums and bought one from Panama and a local Puerto Rican bottle.
The car was so full we decided to go back to the marina and unload. We certainly appreciated the golf cart dock service for this provisioning run!! We had one golf cart and 2 trailers to get all our goodies back to our 2 boats!! We quickly moved our stuff onboard, put away freezer items and went back out to the local grocery store to continue our shopping. By the time we were all done (3 grocery stores later), it was 6pm!!!! Our original plan was to celebrate with dinner out at a Mexican restaurant in Fajardo but we were all so tired (and hungry) that we just went to our on-site restaurant! It was a great meal to end a very successful shopping day. And now that visa needs a break!!
Crimson Kathryn and her crew 