Children's Carnival Parade

Friday Beach Pic

Friday Beach Pic, originally uploaded by captainjay.

Happy Friday everyone! Today is a holiday, Carnival Friday! Even
though it's a holiday I'm actually supposed to be working. Our
department scheduled a system upgrade this weekend because we knew
there wouldn't be any users on the system with it being carnival. We
worked late last night and was supposed to continue today and test Sat
and Sun. Hit a couple of snags so I'm waiting to hear it's resolved.
In the meantime I'm going to head over to the children's carnival
parade. :-)

Enjoy your weekend! And hopefully I'll get to post some carnival pics.

j'ouvert

This morning at 4:00am was the official kickoff of the Carnival 2010 with J'ouvert. To quote Ronnie Lockhart on the Eveything and anything Virgin Islands fan page on Facebook:


j'ouvert: French meaning open day. This has been interpreted as the begining of the day and the carnival as well. Should start before the sun comes up and be over shortly after. Lately, including today, they have been starting after the sun is up for security. Too n...bad the thugs have spoiled it for everyone else. J'ouvert is too sanitary these days. Long gone are the clashes, up and down the waterfront tramping, Main Street tramping, tramping from the country, tramping from Sub Base. None of these are 'allowed' anymore!

Today's sayin': Don' stop de carnival!!: An old one used everytime somebody has the idea to end it! Imagine that. Even used as a title for a popular book by Herman WOuk.See More
 
I won't be participating in any of the carnival activities this year because we have a big project at work and we're working the whole weekend while there are no users on the system. But here are a few pics posted by friends on Facebook of this mornings activities. Enjoy!
 
 

Family tour

I had some family come in for the day yesterday on a cruise ship. I wanted to show then how beautiful the island is so took them up to the overlook on Skyline drive.....big mistake! There were four cruise ships in, including Oasis, so let's just say the overlook was more than a little packed. It was a cluster! And with the hazy conditions, it wasn't even a great view. Lesson learned.

But other than that, we had a nice afternoon together visiting and I was glad I got to see them. :-)

Hazy days

It has been soooo hazy out the past several days. It's also been hot and humid. No more winter winds. I guess that means it's summer time.

Forum Friends

Forum Friends, originally uploaded by captainjay.

Here's the group we met up with on St. John. Had a great time. :-)

What not to do with your dink

What not to do with your dink, originally uploaded by captainjay.

This is a moorings dink we saw the guy trying to tie it up a couple
hours ago. He was having a tough time with knots. It's now on the
beach in Cruz Bay untied. The kill switch is in it. Thief soon come.