Family Weekend Wrap-Up

After the fun we had with our island tour and tetanus shot adventure (refer to the last post if you missed it!) we did a few more Family Weekend activities.  First was Fish Friday.  Fish Friday is held in a town called Gouyave, which is the French word for Guava and pronounced like Guava without the last "a."  Despite the fact that by water Gouyave is only about 15 minutes away, it took over an hour to get there by bus.  There are no highways here, so the road goes through every little town, weaving back and forth and with lots of speed bumps.

Fish Friday is an activity that happens every week (on Friday...in case you missed that) where locals sell fish to visitors and other locals.  Basically it was a bunch of alleyways full of these little booths where locals were preparing and selling fish.  There were some floodlights and speakers blasting really loud music, basically it was just a big party.

Here we are in front of one of the smaller booths.  There were so many types of fish for sale here, whole fried fish (eyes and all), fish and chips, fish balls, fish spring rolls, crab, lobster, lambie (conch), and lots of other things I didn't recognize.



 

I got some fish and chips and Bryant tried half a grilled lobster.

 



 It was swimming in garlic butter, and he obviously liked it!  And it was only about 7:30 in these pictures, but the sun sets at about 6:20 here so that's why it looks like it's the middle of the night.

The next morning, we went to a brunch that served lots of local food as well as traditional brunch foods, but my favorite part was the inappropriate mints.

 It says, "I want you in my arms," and they all had similar messages on them.  It was almost like those little conversation hearts people eat on Valentine's Day.

They also had this top chef guy who showed us how to make some desserts.  He spent most of the time complaining about how the humidity ruined his desserts (he was from the less-humid Great Britain).

After brunch, Bryant studied the rest of the day until the evening's Sunset Barbecue.  It was held at the University Club, which is where I go swimming twice a week at SO Pool Day.

This is the view from a little wooden pier looking back at the Club.  Pretty, right?

And there's cute Bryant in front of the remnants of our sunset.



 

Last but not least, the set-up on the beach where we ate.  We got a great meal, saw some great dancing and drumming and Bryant and I even limbo-ed.  It was a great night and I'm sorry I didn't take more pictures!