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Sunday afternoon was our final get together as a group. We really did it up right with Carribean music, exotic dishes and eating on the deck to simulate BVI temps (if not wind). The only thing we forgot was to have everyone come in their swimsuit!

We again broke with time honored tradition and did not take a single photo. Could this be an ominous sign of Obama-like change in the air? Surely not, being conservative Christians, we are more likely Palin proselytes.

Well, it all went off without a hitch, even when we got home from church to find out the main entree had failed to cook due to a timer malfunction.  We enjoyed a luxurious last minute lunch in 82 degrees of Virgin weather and topped it off with virgin Pain Killers all around!

The guys retired to the TV room to view Tivo versions of Top Ten Caribbean Beaches (White Bay YVD was #5) and the ladies spent some time making provisioning plans. We are going to try what we’ve read about on the TravelTalk forum – taking frozen meat in our luggage. Katey found a vacuum packing device from Zip Lock and apparently well frozen meat will stay frozen for over a day in transit. 

Our anxiety over the three hurricane landing pattern in the Atlantic has calmed somewhat, but we will watch the  wunderground tropical

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/?index_region=at

website closely for the next 14 days to see what developes.