Day 73, Year 2: Getting Ready for Steve’s Arrival
Date: Friday, July 6, 2007
Weather: Beautiful, Sunny Day
Location: Savusavu, Vanua Levu

Our internet frustrations continue. Maybe the problem is not the internet here, but possibly the program we use to upload our photos. Other cruisers are having no problem uploading their pictures on their blog sites, so I guess we just need to continue trying to solve our problem. It is so frustrating to spend so much time to no avail. Mark spent his entire morning and early afternoon in town trying to solve the problem, but he got nowhere. We are going to try a few more tricks and then give up and send pictures home on CD’s and have our son upload them. It will take a couple of weeks for the CD’s to arrive, but at the rate we are going now, it could be months before we get all of our photo albums uploaded. So if you want to see our photos, you will just have to be patient. We’ll get them up as quickly as we can. Hopefully the wait will be worth it.

While Mark went to shore to work on getting the photos uploaded, I stayed on the boat and did the cleaning required before a visitor arrives. Mark’s brother Steve arrives tomorrow morning, the v-berth needed to be made up, bathrooms cleaned, floors cleaned, etc. I also had to finish up the clothes washing, including all sheets and towels. I decided to do all of this by hand instead of sending it out to be done. There are no laundromats here, only laundry services, so I decided to be my own laundry service.

Ranger came in this afternoon and we enjoyed Happy Hour at the Yacht Club with Ranger, Maggie Drum, Camdeboo, Rise and Shine, and Vidora. We then went to the Savusavu Chinese Wok for dinner. It was good, but nothing compared to last night’s tuna at the Captain’s Cafe at the Copra Shed. Tomorrow Mark’s brother Steve arrives, and we plan to have Ranger and Maggie Drum over for a birthday dinner–lobster tail from Vanua Balavu, dorado that Ranger caught today, and fresh veggies from the Saturday produce market.

We are really looking forward to Steve’s arrival and our exploration of Vanua Levu together. Every day just gets better.