Beef Island, BVI - Pinball Wizard

The past couple of days we have been on a mooring in Trellis Bay on Beef Island. Our airhorn has had quite the workout. The first afternoon, we were sitting in the cockpit and were talking about how all the moorings were taken and that boats coming in were circling trying to find an available mooring but nobody was leaving since the weather was kind of rainy and blustery. Then an hour later I look up and I said "Hey, that boat looks like it's leaving. But wait -- there's no one at the helm or on deck...". Sure enough the boat had broken it's dock line that was tied to the mooring and was adrift and heading straight for another boat. Kevin blasted the airhorn and the owner of the drifting boat (neither boat was a charter boat) quickly got to the helm but not in time to stop the collision. There was some minor damage to the teak rail of the other boat but it could have been a lot worse. A couple hours later, another boat broke loose only this was just a dinghy. Kevin noticed it drifting back and of course the owner of the boat came up on deck a few minutes too late and just helplessly watched his dinghy float toward the beach. Another boater hopped in their dinghy to bring back the wandering dinghy to its owner.

On Saturday night we dinghied in to the "Last Resort", a restaurant/bar on a tiny island in the middle of the anchorage. They had a live band that was pretty fun to watch. They had mounted two bottles of tequila on the front of the drum kit and were handing out shots to the crowd like they were candy. One of the games they played was "name that tune". They would play a few bars of a song and everyone had to hit an imaginary buzzer in the middle of their table and guess the name and artist. If you guessed right, you got a tequila shot. If you guessed wrong, nothing happened. But if you shouted out the name of the song WITHOUT hitting the imaginary buzzer you got not one but five tequila shots. Of course my dad knew every song and he'd had a few beers so sure enough he forgot to use his buzzer and shouted out "Pinball Wizard!" when they played the Who song. So the lead singer invited him up to not only do the shots but also to accompany the band as they played the rest of the song. Everyone was rolling with laughter every time the band went completely silent so that my dad could shout out "sure played a mean pin BALL!" a cappella. Dad was able to give away two of the shots to the band members, but then he "earned" another one for having sung with the band, so he still ended up doing four shots. Yikes. After "name that tune" the band played a few more songs and then announced that they were playing the "new newlywed game". Unfortunately Kevin and I were the most recently married couple in the room so we had to go up on stage and then they put Kevin in the soundproof chamber (the refrigerator of the restaurant) and asked me two questions, with the prize being a bottle of wine. The first question was what beverage would your spouse order on a long haul flight. I answered diet coke but Kevin responded beer. So we got that one wrong. But at least we got the second one right which was "which actress would your husband be most likely to want to sleep with?". So the band gave us the benefit of the doubt and we walked out of there with a free bottle of wine anyway. So it was an embarrassing, but fun, night out.

Just for the curious: the answer was Jennifer Connelly.

Where we are:
Location=Beef Island, BVI
Lat=18 26.890
Lon=64 31.881