It was great picking up Kim from Santo Domingo airport yesterday. Today, the boat was more organized and we had placemats at dinner. It's the little touches that make a difference (okay I might not mean that, but it is great having Kim with us).
Today, we ventured to a archeological museum on the histroy of the island, and toured this amazing facility here at Casa de Campa. Then went to the largest hand rolled cigar factroy in the world. Four thousand employees per day in an 8nour shift, making 800,000 to a million cigars per week. Nothing was automated! Plus the quality control, aging the tobacco, and process was amazing.I now know why some cigars are very expensive. We have a few celebratory cigars to be broken out once we reach the Virgin Islands.
In regard to Companion, a rewelded block fastener was reattached to the boom so the main sheet is functioning again. Companion has a new American Flag since the old one was extremely tattered and had a few rips with it's contact with the wind generator. We will attempt to keep wind generator from the flag from now on. We hope that the Volvo water pump will arrive tomorrow so we can be on our way to the Virgin Islands by this weekend.
Now a little side note from "the wife": I am glad to be back on Companion - she is in good shape - the guys took great care of her with all of their passages - Dale is right - she did and will be getting some more personal touches - I can hardly wait to break out the Holiday decor!! (especially since I was the decorating elf in every house that I stayed in, in the last month!)
Life is good and actually a little chilly tonight - 88 today and now in low 70's -
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