Dream on



James racing at the MLK Regatta, St Thomas, USVI

For the remaining five of you out there who didn't see any of our endless boasting of our little man's first outing in St Thomas last weekend - here's the official newspaper write-up but basically James did rather well: After an awful start on Saturday when he was knocked out of his boat, he went on to get a 'bullet' (sailing-speak for winning a race) on Sunday - an amazing achievment for his first competitive regatta. We're not quite sure what monster we may be creating here. When faced with the racing schedule for the year (Miami, St Maarten, Bahama's, Barbados, Antigua, St Kitts - you get the idea)  this is not like 'swimming galas around the Western Cape' as a proud godfather pointed out. Bloody right it's not. I think polo might be less expensive. Anyhow needs, must. Lets hope the next one's really good at chess or something.

Thad, Sam & James

The rest of the week was fairly uneventful apart from making our upcoming move official, which is rather exciting. I've spent endless hours pouring over interior design blogs, Pottery Barn & Ikea catalogues and material swatches. We don't actually need much, as we now get to have all our old furniture with us (thank goodness I had the foresight to have white cotton loose-covers made for everything before I left Joburg) but who can miss an opportunity to decorate? Of course I'm going all out Island-Plantation-Caribbean (duh) and am agonizing over whether to have Pale Aqua or Seafoam in our new sitting room. It will however be whatever we can muster & forage  plus whatever is left over in the budget after we've bought the new flat screen TV and microwave.

But a girl can always dream. The view also really helps.

The sitting room in our new house...

Carrot Bay House

                 .......and how I would like it to look!

Mustique