Charlie greets us and our bags are taken up. We’re shown the room and given a demonstration on how to use the TV and cable setup. We don’t turn it on the whole week. The verandah doors are swung open, we don’t shut them the whole week. After unpacking a little and getting out of our travel clothes we head down to the restaurant. Dirty Bananas!! Hay Suess they are good!! We order some dinner, Brown Stew Fish for me and Fish Escoveitched for Sweetie Pie. I like the brown stew, the escoveitch is good but they do the dry escoveitch there and to me that’s more like English fish and chips. Good, but I like it better when it’s in a sauce with veggies. Sweetie Pie loves it all. The escoveitch is very vinegary which is going to cause a bad association for me later in the night. I have had a strange low grade headache in the temples since about Percy’s. I write it off to travel and dehydration. I start drinking copious amounts of water. We have a couple more stripes at the bar and head up to the room. Flowers are waiting for Sweetie Pie in the room. I tell her flowers will be coming every day. She gets melty. We spend a little time on the verandah. We are in awe. I read her Beautiful Dreamer by Stephen Foster. This is public domain material Rob -

Beautiful Dreamer
by Stephen Foster

Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,
Lull'd by the moonlight have all pass'd away!

Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song,
List while I woo thee with soft melody;
Gone are the cares of life's busy throng.

Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!

Beautiful dreamer, out on the sea,
Mermaids are chaunting the wild lorelie;
Over the streamlet vapors are borne,
Waiting to fade at the bright coming morn.

Beautiful dreamer, beam on my heart,
E'en as the morn on the streamlet and sea;
Then will all clouds of sorrow depart,

Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!



We eventually drift off to sleep with the sea breeze rustling through the palm outside our room. We are in Jamaica!