Sunday

Sunday was a really cool day. Cool as in good not as in not hot. In the morning I went to the museum just along the road from the yacht club with a group of american yachties. The museum was excellent but there was just too much stuff for one visit.
Outside the museum in the garden there was lots of vehicles and aeroplanes from the1900's. There was also a huge passenger plane which the museum had bought from the airport. They had had to cut it into pieces and transport it on the back of 13 trucks! Awesome!! Inside the museum was really hot and there was no air conditioning!! Aaaaargh!
It started with the Indians and finished with people going into space so there was loads of information. My favourite part was about Anne Bonny the notorious women pirate and I also thought the pretend trench was very realistic too.
In the afternoon I swam and played with my brother. I also watched Robin Hood but it was with real actors not animation and it was really cheesy!!

some photos!

This is my family! From left to right: Sam (my brother), Jim (irish friend), Dad and Mum.

Halloween with some of our friends! From left to right: Jack, William, me!, Alistair, Monica, Sam (my brother) and Katie!

Stopping for a nibble while hiking!

trinidad

So.....where did I get too? Ah, yes. So here we are in Trinidad. We have been here for about two and a half months now although it doesn't feel like that much! We are in an area called Chaguramas, or to be more precise we are in a yacht club called TTSA. There is a massive community of live-a-boards here and up until about a week ago a lot of families as well which was great for Sam and I. I especially have got involved with a lot of things here such as becoming a Net controller . The Net is something that happens every morning at 8 o'clock which informs cruisers of events coming up or helps them with maintenance problems and so on. I have also started helping in a yacht upholsterers which is fun and I am learning a lot. One of my favourite things is on Tuesday and Thursday morning and it is a class at7 am for learning Hapkido which is really cool. We are probably going to be here until December because my Grandparents are coming out to Grenada on the15th for Christmas and new year! I am very exited!

brazil to trinidad....

When we got back to Brazil and to the capital (Sao Paulo) we sold the caravan and drove back to Salvador where we sold the car and got back to Sea Warrior. We stayed in Aratu Iate Clube (yacht club) and cleaned the boat out and did various little bits of maintenance. Once we were ready my Dad (Scot) and I sailed the boat from Salvador to Trinidad. It took 24 days and it was roughly 2500 nautical miles.
It was my first LONG trip apart from a week long trip but that was with Mum and my brother Sam (now 11). I really did not enjoy it. It was searing hot all the time and very uncomfortable what with being tired all the time with 3 hour watches every night and I also did all the cooking which was not fun.
Anyway I'll fill you in on the rest of the trip so far on my next post.
Byeee!