Remembrance Day

Today was a holiday here for Remembrance Day (the equivalent of Veteran's Day). Even though the office was officially closed, I came in to work about 8:30 and got quite a bit done. Had a nice visit with Ed who is the new COO for the company. He and I are in the same boat essentially, both having started very recently. His family is moving here in December so I will be able to learn a lot from him going through the process first.

I set up a new account at a website called Flickr.com where I've posted a lot of photo's I've taken of Camana Bay, the beach, Georgetown, etc. I think you need to set up a free account there to view them but I'm not sure. My user name there is also tsullivan32 if you do want to see the photo's. I'm including a couple with this post.

Around 4:00 this afternoon I went to a food fair at a local church building. It turns out one of the raffle tickets that some kids sold to me at home last night was actually a ticket to get into the "fair" so I thought I'd check it out. Turns out they had booths with foods from various countries around the region and world - England and the US, but also Nicaragua, Jamaica, India, and many more. I am the biggest chicken in the world though and didn't try as much as I should have. Lisa is my food advisor on trips usually and without her to guide me, I wasn't brave enough to take much beyond rice, beans, and clearly identifiable meat. There were a lot of good pastries, but I can't begin to tell you what all I tried. One nut thing-a-ma-jig from the Dominican Republic was good.

On the way back to the office I thought it high time to step a foot into the ocean. Someone I met this weekend had told me his favorite beach was the Governor's beach which is only about a 1/2 mile from my office (my office is actually closer than that to the beach - but this particular beach is down the road a bit). It was very nice - part of the world famous 7 Mile Beach that Grand Cayman is known for. Someone told me the other day that there was a tremendous amount of erosion from Hurricane Ivan in 2004 that made the beach area much smaller. This particular beach seemed quite wide. Not many people there today but the water felt good and it' s very refreshing to be out there if even for just a few minutes. The waves were higher than usual maybe from the aftermath of the storm. Anyway, very nice.

I've also just noticed today (since it's the first day the sun's been out) that I'll have a gorgeous view of the sun setting each day over the palm trees. Okay, maybe a little too bright, but it was still pretty. Time to head for home - one week done. It's been a very interesting, busy week. But I miss everyone at home. I'm making plans to come back during Thanksgiving week and Christmas so maybe I'll see some of you then. Until next time ....