Bequia -- Get Ready to Ruummmbble!

So we are settling in for a good long stay in Bequia, one of our favorite islands. We were dinghying into town the other day for lunch and noticed a familiar boat in the harbor. Mike and Kylie are some friends we met while in Grenada and their boat Meggie is a beautiful classic wooden yacht (can't remember the make). Kevin recognized it right away so we dinghied over to say hi. Seems like they'll also be hanging out here for a bit while the winds are blowing (20 knots plus for at least the next week). Luckily Bequia is a great place to chill out. Lots of great inexpensive restaurants, like the one we went to for lunch that afternoon -- delicious boneless chicken rotis (note to unsuspecting travelers: ordering boneless is key. The island chopping technique of breaking down a chicken means serious mouth injuries otherwise!) and drinks for two was less than US$10.

Last night we had the Meggie crew over for drinks and dinner. They introduced us to what is sure to be a new favorite drink: rum and ginger ale with lime. Very good, and no blender required! Plus, they brought a bottle of St. Vincent rum called "Sunset" which we found to be better than our typical stock, which is just whatever rotgut is cheapest at the store! Mike and Kylie are our age and have similar cruising plans for the next couple of seasons so it was nice to get to know them better, since I'm sure we'll be running into them in more anchorages along the way. We had a good time and hung out talking until 10pm -- which is a raging Friday night party by cruisers' standards!

So it's now Saturday morning and Kevin and I are getting ready to resume a task that we've been working on all week: tagging our mp3's by genre. Kevin has loaded all our CD's into our player (talk about eclectic) and we realized that when we put it on "shuffle" we get some seriously random tracks: classical, followed by disco and finished with a dose of funky soul (ahh...James Brown, HIT me!). So we decided to categorize everything so we could just shuffle within each category. Easy, right? Not so fast! You might be surprised to hear that opinions and tempers flared in our normally mild-mannered household. Who would believe that people could care enough to fight over whether Madonna belongs in Teen Pop or Electronica/Dance? Or if Michelle Branch should fall into the same category as Britney Spears? For the record, Kevin thinks Madonna falls into Teen Pop (eye roll) and thought I was crazy for thinking the other two belonged in the same category. The funniest part is that we were having the biggest fights over music we weren't even that likely to listen to! And of course Kevin throws out, "I'm just surprised that you are being so stubborn and opinionated." (Oh no you didn't!) When I pointed out that, in order to actually be having an argument, he was clearly being just as opinionated and stubborn he replied, "Well yeah, but I'm right." At this point we realized that we'd only got through three letters of the alphabet, so we laughed if off and called it a day. But Round 2 begins as soon as I'm done typing this so..."Let's get it on!" (In the Mills Lane boxing sense, as opposed to Marvin Gaye.)