We are still in St Maarten, waiting on weather. We could be stuck in worse places! There is plenty to do here and one of the bigger events, The Heineken Regatta, just finished up. We had a great time!
The last night was award night of course. We parked the dinghy and walked down to the stage:
Still early so we walked around a bit:
Beautiful sunset, Simpson Bay:
The crowd swelled:
The announcers came out and started the show. They announced each class of boat and the winners:
There were teams from 32 countries. I’m not sure which country this team was from but they were pretty happy:
The awards went on for quite a while:
And the big winner:
And then the Capt Morgan girls came out and started throwing hats into the crowd:
You can’t go “full” if you don’t have a hat:
And the CM booth was selling drinks as big as my forearm for $10:
With the awards distributed a new announcer came out, “give it up for the Heineken girls”, W000!
Big crowd:
Then we played “simon sez” with the DJ for a while. Music was good anyway:
Then after a really late but awesome dinner, we took our flashing green Heineken wrist bands, our other trinkets, and of course “the hat”, back to the boat…
Too bad my timing was off a bit. I could have been right there with you guys. Oh well I do have my Heineken hat. Love you guys.