Day 280, Saturday March 29th-still in Hopetown

 Day 280, Saturday  March 29th

Still in Hopetown.

End of Yoga class

We listen to the cruisers net on the VHF and there is an invitation for yoga on the grass at the Hummingbird gallery so Julie opts for that exercise while Dawson goes for a run.  Julie meets Beth and Craig from Emerald Tides who has also been announcing she will lead a class if she can find a spot to offer the classes and she indicates she will do a class on Sunday around the lighthouse.

Joanne and Toby

There are about 10 of us in the class which is just on the patio or grass in the backyard of the gallery overlooking the ocean.  It is a beautiful spot.  Sadly at the end of the class the instructor is asking for $15 from each of us.  We are taken aback as none of us has even brought money, and there are free classes at the marina on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and Julie would never have attended the class had she known as all the classes offered so far on the trip have been volunteer instructors and we are cash poor and are closely watching our cash purchases to have enough to pay for our mooring ball.  All of our purchases are at places that take visa.  Donny who collects for the mooring ball only takes cash so we know we have to set aside the funds to pay him.  There are 3 or 4 of us who are quite shocked as the invitation on the VHF radio did not present as a business at all and the instructor had no business processes at all such as registering the attendees or attempting to collect money at the beginning.  She is very firm on having us pay and lets us know where we can drop off the money around town so that she will get it.  It is not a nice way to start the day.

Dawson and Julie at SIP SIP's

Mexican train with Joanne and Toby

We head back to the boat and do a myriad of miscellaneous time consuming activities such as blogging, French class, reading a novel, eating cleaning.....next thing you know the day has disappeared.

We have arranged to have dinner at Sip Sip’s again with Toby and Joanne and Fred and Debbie however Debbie has broken her toe so they don’t make it so it is just the 4 of us.  After dinner we play some Mexican train dominoes and then head back to the mothership.

Cheers

Julie and Dawson