" A LADY TRIP " Sailing around the World and avoiding the recession at the same time.
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Mon 7 Jun 2010 19:33
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SUNDAY 6th
JUNE
2010
( Presently in Vava'u, Tonga, South Pacific
) Donals birthday
08.00hrs, another beautifull day in
Paradise,
Aileen did a poached egg breakfast for those that
wanted it,
Vava'u is one of those places that closes down
completly on a Sunday, not even the cafe's are open
MASS..
10.00hrs
Margaret, Aileen and skipper traaped up the hill to
the local Cathedral in beautifull sunshine, a big big white building
standing on the top of the hill for all to
see.
Oh my god ! the music, the singing, the
choir, Awsome. It is hard to believe that the human voice could be so
powerfull,
put about a 100 choir singers into a confined
space and , Walla!............. Earth shattering
stuff,......... the singing lasted for about 1.5
hrs.
We were drunk from listening to it all. HEAVEN
has to have this choir, otherwise we wont go...
oooooooooooh la la ,
A blooming great start to the day,, so
uplifting.. we are floating aroung like a bunch of Angels,
We met a lot of crews from other boats there , many
of them are from other religious backgrounds, but go to Mass
for the music. Mind you, there are lot
of churches here on this Island, all different religions, and all singing their
hearts out,
But we think our RC one takes the
biscuit.
In some ways, its all very funny, well maybe
not so funny,
Everyone knows that there is a GOD and Heaven, even
the dogs on the street know that........ drummed in since the day we were
born.
All religions know that also, because they also had
it drummed into them from the word go !
SO .....................at the top of
the Pyramid is God and Heaven .
THEN.................... there are all those
millions of humans below, trying to get up there,
SO .....................they have to
find the right transport to get there.
So.........................the transport is a
religion, ( like the car, the plane, the train, the ship, the bicycle, etc
)
So ....................... As we know, all
transport costs money, because basically, they are buisnesses , there to provide
a service and make money.
So .......................So now we have all
these religions trying desperatly to get everyone into their
Vehicle.
So.........................the sales people are the
missionaries, sent out around the world recruiting travellers trying to get to
heaven.
So.........................Our RC church, The
Orient Express of religions, is beginning to loose passangers and travellers,
plus a few quid to boot.
So........................ Perhaps its time to
change the board of managment and rebuild the buisness before its too
late.
SO ......................So, Bloody simple ,
isint it . god , imagine , thats what skipper was thinking about while
listening to all wonderfull choir music. !
The style at Mass was great, Both men and women ,
all dressed in their local costumes.
but all good things come to an end, so we made our
way back to the Yacht Club, ( closed on a sunday )
but the girls had already ordered a birthday cake
for " Fats " , as its his birthday to day, and it is to be delivered at
!2,00hrs to the YC.
Interesting, he was on board " A Lady " last year
for his birthday also.
The cake, a chocklete yum yum cake had a broken
moterbike on top to remind the birthday boy of recent happenings
Aileens suggestion of the bike , sent the
pastry chef into orbit making such " out of the ordinary "
cake.
Back on board, Fats was in his siesta ( or as he
calls it , " his Ziz " )
Skipper got into the emails and blog, while the
girls went for a nap .
17.30hrs Our guests arrived for a drinks party in
honour of the birthday boy, we started with Champaigne, and quickley moved
onto
wine and gin & tonics, there were 16 on
board in total including ourselves.
Ruie, from " Thor V1 " was also celebrating his
birthday, so we toasted him also. Ohhhh we had great laughs, and
lots
of jokes about " Fats " and for 2 hours, we
really enjoyed the party........
Dave & Sue from " Voyaguer "
did their own birthday card with this poem :- Donal the
navigator
A frustrated aviator
Wanted to fly
and
take to the sky
took off on a scooter
but landed on his hooter
So to save all the fuss
Next
time take a bus
Thats good,
We then went ashore and skipper bought dinner for
the birthday boy and the rest of our crew in his honour.
The restaurant " Dancing Rooster " sounded
much better than the food tasted, However, we had a great
night.
23.00hrs We arrived back on " A Lady
" had a night cap sitting on the Aft deck sofa before we hit
the scratchers
ZZZZZzzzzzzzzZZZZZz
We could not get our emails and messages to go,,
bloody computers, like Beauricrats, they only seem to work
sometimes.
or worse, only when they feel like it
.
Thats it for now,
Signed :- Stephen Hyde (
Skipper ).......
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