There was a celebration happening later in the day on the 10th in Soufrière. We had learned that the day before from our friendly waiter. What we didn’t know is that it would impact our ability to eat breakfast in the town. After trying about five places, a super helpful and smiley woman recommended Seashell Beach Restaurant on the other side of town. It is a resort restaurant, so of course it would be open.

On our way to try to find food (before we were told about Seashell):

They had just finished serving breakfast when we arrived, but she told us that we could still order an omelet or scrambled eggs. Michael had the former and I had the latter. The view from the restaurant was great, and we ended up being really glad that the others were closed.

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We’d been in St. Lucia for about a week when we went on a three-day trip to the interior. We rented a very small car. It had an automatic transition, for which I was grateful. I didn’t know how grateful I would be until I drove on the roads. I guess I should have known that driving might be tricky when the advice from the rental car agent was, “Try to avoid potholes.” (I should also note that they also drive on the wrong side of the street here. Smile.)

January 8

Our first trip was to Rainforest Adventures, about 45 minutes away from the marina, to go ziplining. The road was very curvy, which was fine, and had a LOT of potholes, which I tried my best to avoid.

The package we signed up for had eight ziplines. The second to the last one was the longest at 347 feet. All were deep in the rainforest, so the views were lovely.

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