The town square rocks...........almost

We're anchored here in Prickly Bay, getting ready to do a haul-out. That's where a big crane puts your boat on stilts and you paint the bottom and do all kinds of maintenance projects. It's important for us because it's "half-time". We're going to be heading west later...........possibly Cartagena, Columbia......definitely the ABC islands.........maybe even Honduras. The boat has to be ready.

View from our boat this morning - Prickly Bay

For now, we're waiting patiently for our haul-out appointment. Prickly Bay seems to be like the town square of Grenada (for non-locals). Everyone ends up coming to the bar/restaurant and congregating. This is like a Bogart movie............guys down on their luck swilling a cheap beer..........women with masculine looking tattoos eyeing every guy who walks in.........St. Georges University med students.......locals sizing up the situation......even Rasta gangsta looking guys. There all here for just one reason, at least on Wednesday night.

Bingo.

What? Bingo.........like I guessed the right answer ? No, Bingo like bingo. Like the game that 80 year old catholic blue-hairs play in church gymnasiums. Grenada is addicted to bingo. It's really weird. Kirstin and I sat at our table with our mouths hanging out for at least an hour. I couldn't have been more shocked if they started clogging.


The Bingo MC sells everyone cards. I saw this Reggae gangsta looking guy with lots of bling, Yankees cap on sideways......pants around his ass. I really felt like using that Jeff Foxworthy joke I like so much.

"Boy, if you're out on Wednesday night playing bingo with a bunch of crackers, pull up your pants......you ain't no gangsta."

Of course that would probably get me killed, so I sipped my chardonnay, knowing that even with my orange shorts and flowered shirt I was easily one of the 10 toughest people there..........by virtue of not having a bingo card.

Tuesday is trivia night. Same format but I'm guessing the St. Georges University folks are missing.........hey, if they did well on tests they wouldn't be studying off-shore, right ? In honor of trivia night, we'll close with some Tom and Kirstin trivia...........one of these things is False (answer will appear in a following post).

1) Tom hasn't worn underwear since December 15, 2011
2) Kirstin is one of those chicks who sings the wrong words to songs (loudly) i.e. her rendition of the Doors......."come on baby light my tire"
3) Small squids keep appearing on our deck raising the question......can they really jump 3 feet ?
4) We have eaten pizza for dinner 4 nights in a row just because it's available.