Banner Day at the Cabrelli Household

What's with ricotta and strawberries? Let me explain...

When we started this blog we were excited at the prospect of sharing this big scary adventure with our family and friends. We would post brilliant insights on Bahamian life and share the thrill of living on the ocean in a sun-drenched country. We would regale you all constantly with wonderful stories of doing something so very... different.

Well - as of today we have been living on Water's Edge for about 6 months and it hasn't exactly turned out that way. After the initial nightmare of our actual move and our adjustment to the island style, it turns out that we live a very quiet life. Apart from missing Emily we are nicely settled in to our routines of daily walks, swims and (now that Emily is gone) accidental 10 hour working days - it's very easy to sit in an office overlooking the ocean, working away, and not realize that it is all of a sudden 7:00pm and you are still sitting in front of the computer. There isn't much of a rush to get home and relax since we are already there, and already doing it.

So it with that in mind that I request you not laugh at our Banner Day. The plan was to get up early and walk to the grocery store for breakfast. Well early turned in to Sunday morning late and with the European Championship Final looming and some work to do this morning, we decided to drive instead. The grocery stores only open for a few hours on Sunday morning and are always packed. This morning was no exception and we were also treated to the store sound system blasting out the crazy sermon of an evangelical preacher. I won't share with you the details of today's sermon as it is not appropriate for public reading but let me just tell you that Bahamians are not shy about expressing their views on sexuality.

I digress - we walked in to the produce section and a heavenly sight stood before me. It was a tray of recently delivered strawberries and they weren't moldy. Let me repeat that... they were not moldy. A very unusual and exciting find that turned our average day in to a day that we could spend looking forward to strawberries for desert. I will tell you that I was unable to create the planned guacamole, as unfortunately the $2.99 tiny Haas avocados were moldy... oh well. But wait, the day got amazingly better... ricotta cheese! They had ricotta cheese! The only other time we have managed ricotta cheese is when we drove all the way across the island to the tiny gourmet market and bought a teeny tiny tub for $9.00.

So our banner day has begun - a drive, a swim, scoring at the grocery store, the European Championship Final and later tonight, with a glass of wine in hand, strawberries and ricotta cheese out on the patio overlooking the ocean.

Calm down. Please try and control your excitement.