what dad does when mom shopping

you guys want pictures the only time i get the camrea is when mom goes into a store  and look at what see yes chels and keri and curt look what i found        now think        dad

Another Day Out on the Town

Today we went on an adventure to try find Dad a Hold=em Table.  An adventure it was, two busses and an aweful long walk, but we did indeed find one, only to find out the tables sit at 8:00 p.m.  We were there at 12:00 noon.  Oh well  another day.  At least he knows where they are!

This was a most beautiful bird.  The song it sang was just as beautiful.  It was a little bigger than a robin.  For those who enjoy birds ( no beaking or pun intended.)  Hope you can find out for us what it is.

This was a nativity scene on the other side from Willemstad.

Maybe in another picture you can see the climbing wall, this is the scene from our balcony, one of the entertainers climbed to the top and is saluting us!

Until later!

Otrabande (one of the spellings must be correct!

The view from our room

Parking Wars Curacao style

 Some of the Entertainment Crew. They are amazing!

Seems to be at least two cruise ships everyday!  Thousands of extra people in the town.  The place thrives on tourism.

Part two

The story of the nicely painted buildings goes as follows.  At one time all of the buildings were white.  The govenor complained to the townspeople that he got a headache from all the white buildings when the sun shone on them.   His residence is the yellow building in a past post, with the tablets on them.  He then ordered that all the buildings be painted various colors.  Later it was found to be true that the Govenor himself owned the paint factory.  So although he made a bundle, the townsfolk were not too happy with him.  Cute story hey?

Wilemstad from Otreband I don't know what's up but again having trouble posting pics.  What I wouldn't do for a computer savy offspring to help me here.  Will try again later!

An Afternoon in Otrabande

Had a nice and sunny day today, visited a museum and walked the streets on the other side of Wilemstad.  Pictures won't load, will try again later.  Had a fair bit of sun today and cleaned up on the pool side games!  Found some more local shops.  It's amazing that when you just walk a few short blocks in, in the city, the prices drop dramatically.  Got some good deals, and some souvenirs at payable prices.  Should only be one more day of rain, and the sun should hit!  Can't wait for that.  We did have a snorkelling excursion planned for tomorrow, but it is cancelled because of weather.   Oh well, can't win them all.  When it does rain, it is short lived and the temperature is quite warm. 

Partly cloudy with a chance of showers..............

Being here reminds me a lot of the BVLD weather report, in the summer, "partly sunny with a chance of showers," in the winter "partly sunny with a chance of flurries."  Therefore all is covered in once sentence.  Got up this morning thinking it would be a beautiful day, but within minutes, there was the downpour.  Oh well, you can't buy weather.  For us it's only a minor inconvenience.  For the folk here, it's a real problem.  By Wednesday it's to be beautiful, fo we'll just hope for it then.
 Dad tried to be a bit of a rebel last night.  We've been seeing these "fish" swimming towards the light at the dock.  His "plan" was to steal a big net used for cleaning the pool when no one was watching and scoop up a couple of them.  At the last second he was busted so so much for that.  We'll try again another time.  They look like eel.  A man at the beach had a "fish book".  Kind of reminded of someone in our family and their "bird book".  By the way, the birds here are so cute.  Would be wonderful for a bird watcher.  I'll sign off for now and post more later.  Breakfast time!  Love to you all!

Sunday November ???

Have had a great day so far.  One thing I've always wanted to do is go to a southern Baptist Church.  We had second best today!  We went to a little local church here today.  Everything was in English.  Everyone that walked warmly welcomed us.  Someone made sure we got a bulletin, another made sure we knew which hymnbook to use.  A lady came and asked us if we would sign the guestbook.  Well it didn't take long and I saw the guestbook make it's way to the reverend.  Sure enough, " a special and warm welcome to our visitors Leroy and Patricia Dekens for Canada, let's give them a warm round of applause, then a five minute speech on how we were welcome and then another round of applause".  It was so nice and heartwarming. After church someone offered us a ride back to our hotel, I really couldn't believe it!  We would do well to learn from them.  It was really nice.
After church we came back to the hotel to have some more croquettes and frikadellen.  What a way to round off the morning.  I forgot to say that the church service was two hours long, but that really didn't matter, Chelsey and Jonathan had got us a little warmed up to that fact! 
Well it is another overcast day today.  It has never rained this much here ever.  There are a lot of people with flooded homes and problems because of the rain.  So we really shouldn't complain.  But through the rain, it is still warm.  We are not wearing our winter get up, so we're not complaining.  We'll check in later through the day, if there's time of course!  If not, love you all.