Bahamas 2025-Day 5 and 6-January 19 and 20, 2025

 Sunday in the Bahamas

Of course as it's Sunday it was a low key day.

We found a local ward meeting and went there. I planned to join the group but when we entered the chapel it was small and quite perfumey. So I went back out to the foyer. Of course a bunch of people came in late so the foyer was pretty packed. The most perfumed lady that came in came over to welcome me...which was super nice but also cemented the headache to be. Anyway, after the sacrament, I went out and sat in the van while the meeting continued. Apparently the mission president was there and gave a good talk so I'm glad everyone else got to hear him. I opened all the doors to the van and there was a lovely breeze so I had a nice relaxing time. I took some meds that I brought with me.

We made lunch at home. I napped due to the headache and eventually felt good enough to go outside and relax in the shade by the pool.

We decided to take a Sunday drive and found a beach near Adelaide Village. The beach had tons of huge Conch shells but wasn't really the kind of beach you could relax on...lots of seaweed and other flotsam. We walked around but didn't stay long. We realized that we must be quite close to our next airbnb which made us a little nervous because the area seemed kind of dilapidated with razor wire etc on the fences. We decided not to find the airbnb but let it be a surprise.

Monday January 20th was the day to move to the second Airbnb on the other side of the island. We spent the morning packing up. This airbnb had a guy that seemed to be combination of worker and property security guard. He was always working: painting something or doing yard work! Seemed like a hard working guy. I thought he was the owner at first but when I asked he said no, he just worked there. We left him a good tip and he was appreciative.

We decided to play some pickleball before heading to the other side of the island. We were just walking around before our time came up and saw a couple playing by themselves. We asked if they wanted to play doubles and they did! We took turns playing with them (since we had 3) and had a really nice time playing for a couple of hours.

We drove over to our new place around noon and the owner met us there. She was so sweet and she showed us around. It was, indeed, very close to the beach we were at the day before. The property is all fenced in and we were told to lock the gate anytime we left. But she said that she stayed here all the time by herself and always felt perfectly safe. That was good to hear.

The little house was quite cute and sits right on the beach!  The ocean on this side was less wild and just very calm and shallow really far out. It was lovely!

She told us that we were welcome to any of the coconuts on the tree and Frank picked several to put in the fridge for later

There was a machete available but turned out to be pretty dull. Frank had to work hard to get his coconut water!

We knew about a restaurant in this little village (had good reviews) so we decided to go for lunch. But it was not open...so we found a little mom and pop place just a few blocks away and had lunch there. The place was called Da Spot and seems like lots of locals like to eat there. We told them that we would definitely be back!

We spend the afternoon just enjoying our lovely spot. We had lounge chairs outside where we could sit and read or nap. We walked along the beach and waded in the water a bit.

Da Spot was so much cheaper than anything else we'd done that we decided to get take out for dinner. When the guys walked in I'm sure the owners were surprised to see us twice in one day. We weren't kidding when we said we'd be back.