We have arrived

Friday morning 3:30am Paul & I get up and get ready to go to the airport. We pick up Ashley at 4:15amn(as scheduled, tho Ashley when she gets into the car says that her alarm did not go off and she got up at 4:09am. We are off to JFK for the flight. Spend an hour on the line waiting to check in and pay for LuSea. That accomplished, we go thru security and all the carry-0n bags make it with no problem with the exception of the backpack that has a small cooler with the rest of the food that we are taking. It makes sense to just empty the NY fridge and take all the stuff with us instead of throwing it out or giving it away. Anyway, the TSA guy takes everything out of the cooler (hello.....I am trying to keep that stuff cold!!!) He looks at everything and swabs it all, no problems. Guess he figured we might try to sabatoge the plane with the 3 pkgs of cream cheese, or the frozen cold cuts.)
Our flight was delayed for about 30 minutes as they couldn't get one of the engines started. Very comforting. Otherwise, a totally uneventful flight. This is the first time that we have flown into St. Thomas and it is great! LuSea again was terrific, tho at one point, we heard some whining. Guess she wants the trip over with.
We arrive in St. Thomas and pickup our Budget Car Rental. As usual, the price quoted on the internet when I made the reservation is NOT what we are charged. Got to love the Caribbean.
We head out of the airport and head over to the Best Western Carib Beach to see where we can pick up the kids in two weeks, and check in with the "Wedding Planner" about Tom & Jenn's wedding.
Next we are off to Kmart to get LuSea a new "potty" box. From there we head out to Compass Point to get onto Cattitude.

Upon arrival, the first thing we note is that our cabin and the basement are filthy. We contracted to have a door made between out bedroom and the adjoining”basement” room. Turns out that the door looks great, but it is cut too low to the floor and will not clear our mattress. Now this is a real problem. We put a call into Benjy our caretaker and make arrangements for the woodworker and Benjy to visit us in the morning on Sat. to review what needs to be done. The basement looks like they did nothing to protect the boxes and crates for storage and everything is covered in sawdust. We are pissed.

We unpack our bags, put away what we can and by 6pm have dinner. After that we are both exhausted and call it a night.