Gin for antiseptics, broken birthdayboy toes and Saba rock – with Lady Gaga (we think) on the beach to top it all off!

Injured toes seem to be the theme of our holiday! First out was Cornelia the very first day, even before we reached BVI, stumping her big toe to bleeding alongside the main road of St Martin. The next was Erik to break his metatarsal or toe on his birthday- two radiologists without a portable xray machine but clinically fitting with a broken metatarsal! And then Petters toe came in close contact with a rock next to the football field at Bitter end, and the bartender at The yacht Club brought real gin to desinfect it! Stung quite a bit but worked like a clock!

According to seabatticals informationsheets aboard the boat, the most common insurance claim/loss of the prepaid depositum is loosing ones dinghy. We’ve been laughing at all the idiots managing to loose the dinghy- I mean, how STUPID must you be to loose or forget you dinghy when thats your only meant of getting to shore from your boat apart from swimming ? Well, this afternoon we found out, when we 4 adults all sat and watched the sunset, beer in hand, when suddenly we realised that it was our dinghy afloat far far away from the boat… Stupid is as stupid does, and we are obviously no better than the next sailor- though luckily Captain Eriksen threw all valuables quickly from his pockets and jumped in and rescued DT’s dinghy, so that we once again could come ashore and have another delicious meal, this time at the Bitter end yacht Club celebrating Eriks 45 birthday! Hooorray🇳🇴

New day arriving with a hothot morning jog followed by fooballplaying at the beach and footballpractise. In the midst of all this the jawdropping spotting of Lady Gaga on a beachchair with her bodyguards- we think-and the whole boat went nuts – completely starstruck!

To get the whole crew back on earth we grabbed our cossies&creditcards and jumped in the dinghy and anchored up at beautiful exclusive Saba rock for lobster,conch&burgerlunch and soaked up the caribbean sun with tummies filled with delicious food and drink on the little beach in the back. Fishfeeding with the chef and wouldnt you know it, Cornelia charmed the wits out of Mr Mississippi -who happened to be there lurking in the bushes just waiting for Christian to fled the scene- he came running to her whenever Christian left her side to do something- it was quite hillarious, we almost (unwantingly) had a new crewmember!

After a long day of eating well and soaking up sun, we jumped in the dinghy for some swimming off the back of the boat and some porkchop barbecue on the boat. Yet another superduper day rounded up with a game of yatzy.