Xmas Day on Promenade part 2

Our Xmas eve dinner was tasty, with our festive chocolates and pineapple for dessert...

We had a cut throat Promenade trivia game after dinner with we had a three way tie on that was then broken down to one winner, Steven, however, it was Xmas so everyone received a Xmas present!

Popcorn, fishing and Xmas movies rounded out the evening and we were all up until midnight and later! This meant that early morning naps were in order. Another creative use of the charts!

Our hearty crew did a dive at Muskmelon, as frankly, everywhere else on this side would have been worse visibility. And it was bad. I think they saw a total of three fish and a few diver silhouettes! On our way we went with the Spinnaker, which was all twisted up in its sleeve, so it looked like we had reefed it to sail over to Jost. We had about 5 men involved in the untwisting of it!

It was off then to the Bubbly Pool for the guests, so David contributed these to the blog today...

The bubbly pool was bubbling along,

Really bubbling as you can tell!

I love this picture of the duck, bird type thing (no Doctor Doolittle am I, so not sure what it is!)

We had a horrendous squall while they were gone, it really bucketed down!

I spent most of the day in the galley. We had potato pancakes (A hucul tradition) and sausages for breakfast, homemade buns and shortbread cookies along with cold cuts and cheese for lunch, and turkey and all the trimmings for dinner! I believe my stove and oven was on all day. Down to White Bay we made it, and tucked right into the corner we found a tight little spot. It was pretty busy and the swell was up, amazed at the monohulls that were sitting in the middle by the reef being tossed and turned around...

Our guests made their way into the Soggy Dollar Bay for awhile,

and when they came back we decided to move to west end. We had a guest/deckhand in training, who complained more then I thought possible about coiling the line from the second anchor that had been done!

It probably took us about half and hour to get over to West End, and we had 2 cocktails tonight (as someone mentioned they had missed them the night before as they were going for a night dive!) Tonight we had Chocolate Bushwhackers and Starbucks Frappucino (alcoholic version!) and they pronounced my drinks way better then on land...
My turkey looked spectacular tonight! I had to show everyone and take a picture before we cut into it...

This is for my mom, using the pointsetta napkins she made me for Xmas still (they get used once a year, so they should last about a century!)

Everyone pronounced dinner a success and we think we have enough left overs for Hot Turkey sandwiches tomorrow night (my dad would like those!) Which is way better in my books then the Mahi we were going to have! Although, I have been talked into making fresh buns again for it....