sittin at the dock of the bay

We went to shore for a ceremony {more on the at ContinuingPromise2009 shortly} and afterwards I was talking to a couple of the Navy guys when the ACE team NCIS agent came up and told them he needed their help to drop off generators to one of the work sites. I asked if they needed a NUB to come along {non-essential useless body}. Of course.

We dropped off the equipment at a school then went on our merry way. We were hungry {when am I not hungry?} so Pete, the NCIS guy, {I wasn't as celebrity stricken this time around} took us to a road side shack for some of Antigua's fantastic fare.

Going with my customary 'give me your favorites' the woman there said in her lyrical drawl 'Watch me keenly, I show you the best.' and filled my 'walk away' with rice, chicken curry, lasagna, and mac n cheese with curry sauce drizzled all over the whole thing. I also had ox tail and conch meat. {who knew you could eat those things?} The very best part of the meal was the Banana Pancakes {top left corner}. I have a new appreciation for that Jack Johnson song now.

From my blog you might get the idea that it is all play and no work {no comment from you Santa Da'rell!}. But the work feels like play. We spent the afternoon at the clinic in the GYN area. My mom was screening patients as well as escorting them to the doctors. I was transferring them to radiology, the lab, or pharmacy. I didn't think I'd get a chance to work in the clinics being a non-medical volunteer so yesterday was a treat to play with the kids and talk with the women. We laughed a lot trying to understand each other's English.

I usually only sing 'sittin at the dock of the bay' whilst making icecream shakes but I hummed it to myself yesterday while I soaked in the sun waiting for our ride back to the USNS Comfort {I'm going to start calling the ship by it's full name so my blog will ping on google searches}