Three weeks in - Need Three more YEARS! We just finished a wonderful week with our New York City family representatives, Nancy and Eric. We had a blast sailing and sightseeing with them, visiting many of the regular haunts around the Virgin Islands. Had to miss out on visiting a few of the best spots, due to time constraints but that makes a return visit from them a MUST! One especially pleasant night was spent at Peter Island, ashore at their beautiful restaurant. We dingied ashore and since the dingy motor wouldn't raise we had to make a rather hard beach landing, then throw and anchor up onto the sand so it wouldn't float away while we were in having dinner. After dinner was complete, with all four of us not especially feeling too much pain (does the drink called "painkiller" mean anything to any of you?) we headed out to the dingy. It was half full of sea water which we bailed out with the help of a wine bucket from the bar. Then Eric and I shoved and shoved until we got it off the sand and floating clear with the girls in. We then jumped in, as best we could, and I got the motor running. We made it back to the boat, a lot wet but laughing all the way. One day, with Nancy at the helm, we sailed almost all the way to Anagada with a terrific wind. Another day we spent ashore at Saba Rock, with Nancy and Eric catching up, just chillin', or "liming" as it's called here int he islands. Being devout Bronco football fans, Nancy, Suz and I, had to find a bar with the Sunday night Bronco game on. Eric loves a good game as well and his Jets were also playing that night so we were able to satisfy all of our football needs at once. We accomplished that by catching a mooring ball near Caneel Bay Resort and dingying in to Cruz Bay, St. John, maybe a mile away. It was a fairly splashy ride both ways but the return ride in the dark with cell phone "flashlights" must've looked rather strange. We made it and didn't complain as the Broncos had continued their winning ways. Caneel Bay Resort is a very posh resort on St. John. Turns out that Eric's parents have come their every year for many years. They weren't open for the season yet so we couldn't come ashore to let Eric look around and see where they had come and stayed so many times. Again, maybe next time. We sent them away from Sopers Hole on Tprtola on the St. Thomas ferry on the final Saturday of their stay. They reported a rather bumpy ride back across to Charlotte Amalie where we had picked them up only a week earlier, but no one got seasick, at least from our group. Since their departure, we've been doing some boat chores and traveling around visiting some stores which have carried our shorts in the past. We brought several sample shirts from our new licensee with us and made sure to drop these design sheets and sample shirts around to the stores where our sales rep would soon be calling. We're hoping for good things again for our little brand as the new designs were very well received. Time will tell but our fingers are crossed. We only have about 10 days left so we're trying to cram as much island time into our schedules as possible. We've gotten reports from back home that winter has arrived and will be awaiting us upon our return. UGH! Not sure how that will settle with our newly tanned bodies. I'm awaiting photos from daughter Nancy to add to this post so hopefully, they'll arrive soon and can be downloaded easily. So, keep watching!