He did eat some, not all, but some and eventually left the plate, so with that our little yellow breasted friend swooped down and carried on eating, hey at least someone was happy.

So as usual after breakfast we headed back to the villa, grabbed our bags and headed to the beach.  It wasn't long before myself, Aphrodite and Mary Anne got restless and decided to head over to the big thatched building further down the beach.  We'd just got to the rocky part when this guy appeared from nowhere with these big blue eyes and beautiful teeth, practically dragging us into his new store that was part of the big thatched building.

It's a very nice store but mainly filled with crappy souvenirs and stuff. Then again there was a cabinet with some rather fabulous sunglasses, but I think I have quite enough of those. 4 pairs of Gucci's I have, I mean please.....

Within this new site is the Dolphin Park, oh god they are soo cute, we could see them over the wall waiting to entertain some tourists with their antics. Myself, Morpheus, Mary Anne and Professor are booked tomorrow afternoon at 2pm...can't wait.

There are some apartments being built right by the thatched centre, which look pretty cool. They're going for $150,000. I would love to sell our flat in Manchester, then use that money to put towards one of these apartments, can you imagine flitting over to Anguilla couple of times a year, fantastic, will look into it.

This afternoon Professor and Hermes snuck off for a drive in the jeep that Professor had rented for the week (he gets antsy on the beach). Apparently they went off to explore the local delicasies of the island, well they tried, as we all know Hermes is VERY fussy when it comes to food. They eventually came across a place called Pepperpot in the Valley where a woman called Big Momma prepared Hermes with some meat roti and curried goat for Professor. Apparently they had quite a lovely lunch.  Roti by the way is a type of dough made with flour and a bit of dahl (small, lentil-like legumes) fold into it. In the Caribbean, it's rolled very thinly and griddle-cooked, making it a flaky kind of pastry.

So tonight we met in the hotel bar around 7pm, earlier than usual, to listen to the steel band that are playing, they were pretty good but the audience wasn't exactly inspiring. Well let's put it this way Morpheus said...."it's the people from "Cocoon".  Seriously I've never seen so many old people in my life, they were ancient, some even managed to get their old craggy arses off the seats to dance but I couldn't watch, it was too painful.

So after a few delicious rum punches we headed on out, again driven by Davis, to the "Straw Hat" restaurant down in Forrest Bay quite near the airport. It's classed as one of the best restaurants on the island and quite true aswell, absolutely delightful, especially as the host was a cutie.  The restaurant overlooks the ocean and is all opened up, it's really beautiful and all you hear is great huge waves lapping up over the beach.

Clearly one of the best things about this restaurant apart from the fact that all the light fixtures are covered by straw hats, (cool), is the bathroom, yes this is the decoration on the ladies bathroom when you walk in.   Isn't it cool? like a miniature harem or something, not sure why it's there but I liked it.

The menu was extensive and I gather by Professors look that the wine menu was pretty good as well. Everyone again had fish, I had Wahu (sounds like YAHOO) which is a sword fish, Morpheus had Snapper but he said it was a bit salty, Tom and Jim both had the Vietnamese Sea Food Stew and the terrible twosome had, you guessed it, LOBSTER!!

It was a superb dinner and our waitress actually was a rather large black woman from Reading in England, I thought she had a faimilar accent, she was really nice.

Aphrodite ordered Veal, well actually that's not true, Hermes ordered Veal, didn't like it, so took her lobster instead, so then she was stuck with this veal dish that she reckoned was as hard as a rock. Of course Professor thought this was hysterical to order something that clearly isn't a regular item on the island anywhere in site and that she should of ordered fish. Yet again sticking his konk in where it's not wanted, but kinda funny I guess.

We all had fun, drank lots, ate lots and me and the girls happily gawped as the cute host guy until we left. Shame I didn't get a picture of him, anyway here's one of the table instead.

Don't we look happy? Well not me, I'm taking the picture, prefer it that way. Oh hold on, Carol's missing, let me stick in that picture of her and Sweat Pant Boy, here you go.

So finally I spoke to Mel at Blanchard's Restaurant htis afternoon and we now have a reservation for tomorrow night. God I hope everyone likes it after the fuss I've made. I know Professor will go nuts if it's crap but I'm sure it won't be.