Friday November 5

The wind was really blowing today. But the sun was shining through the clouds. I had a nice walk this morning and then we headed out early. We headed up on the upper side of town about a mile from the ocean but parallel to the coastline. We have walked this route several times so we didn’t see new stuff just wanting to do something different. The sidewalk sort of ends at this huge park we have visited and we sat under a shelter for a while while it sprinkled. It soon let up and the sun was back out and off we headed down towards the ocean. We came to the pineapple greenhouses and went in for our free tour. Hey take a few years to grow and sell really high. Even though they aren’t as big as regular pineapples hese ones supposedly only raised here are really pricey a good one selling for $35.00. 

They are really sweet almost as though dipped in sugar and you eat all of it the core included. At the end we go through a restaurant/store and they brought over a tray with miniature slices of toast with pineapple jam and small shot glasses of something. I asked what the drink was and it turned out to be pineapple liquor. Sent that back but the jam was tasty.

Picture of the restaurant. We headed on down to the ocean and the wind was really blowing. The waves were really pounding the rocks and mist was being blown into the air you could feel from a long ways away. 

There was another cruise ship in from Germany and it was huge. Easily the largest ship I have seen. It was quite impressive but even it was bobbing a little in the heavy seas and this in a protected harbor.

The pictures don’t really show how big it is but we had to be a ways off to get the thing to fit on the screen. Coming around the corner I saw this man all dressed in black. At first I thought someone had made one of those plywood cutouts painted black you see in gardens but it was alive.

Then a convertible bus.

Home, eat and leave for our appointment. We visited a brazilian and she turned out to be a member. Fun times then we visited the member with the 4 kids who were recently baptized. Good time. It gets dark quickly so we came home we had supper and just stayed in as we don’t like walking in the dark so much. Fun day.

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