Sorry about the title..autocorrect thinks it is smarter than I am..Bonjour, mes amis! We have arrived to a fabulous welcome and giant upgrade from Le Guanahani (merci, Martein, Le manager
) but my bags are currently partying somewhere in SXM ( at a nice rum bar, if they are smart), but Vincent says 60 bags didn’t make it. Our PIV special guy, Reinaldo, came to get us at the Transit when we walked out with a big smile and hug, marched us directly to the security where you put your luggage through the machine, (we were the only ones they let do it) and took us directly to Winair gates (do not pass GO 
), got us both on the next Winair flight (merci), saving us about an hour wait, but les baggages are livin’ la vida loca in SXM and we are expecting them tomorrow, which was a minor annoyance for me who fully believes in redundant systems (you know, like 3 separate sets of makeup, dresses, 4 pairs of shoes, bathing suits, coverups..), unlike DD who has exactly no extra anything..
. Well, as one of my friends says, “Not my pig, not my farm!”
So in spite of that, we had a really lovely dinner at Le Guanahani after seeing old employees and making friends with the new ones..the menu isn’t really exciting , more like a steak house with fish with sauce or steak with sauce but a new addition were these adorable French bread rolls with a map of SBH on them! Yes, I ate two, and DD had a sort of whole grain herby mini baguette which he loved, but it is against my principles to eat bread with herbs, purist that I am. ( Don’t mess with my chocolate, either!) I put good salt butter on my rolls, too..can’t pass up French butter. I had a very large portion of Seared tuna with champagne and hibiscus beurre blanc (not a lot of great sauce choices for tuna there) but the tuna was perfect with a couple of pretty asparagus. If you order tuna, share! DD went for Chateaubriand with Béarnaise, very conventional and I think they are cooked sous-vide and then they put them on the grill. He said it was good, but I don’t like sous-vide cooked foods, so I was happy eating my tuna. We both had an excellent mai tai cocktail with passionfruit, a personal favorite.
Well, not sure when I slept last and since our gym clothes didn’t make it, I guess we have to skip a day and head to Super U in the morning after what should be a wicked good breakfast. If hiking up Le G hill from the beach/resto on stilettos counts as workout, (it is really steep! ), I’m good! Bonsoir for now and pray for my bags..who knows how hard they are out partying tonight…
) but my bags are currently partying somewhere in SXM ( at a nice rum bar, if they are smart), but Vincent says 60 bags didn’t make it. Our PIV special guy, Reinaldo, came to get us at the Transit when we walked out with a big smile and hug, marched us directly to the security where you put your luggage through the machine, (we were the only ones they let do it) and took us directly to Winair gates (do not pass GO ), got us both on the next Winair flight (merci), saving us about an hour wait, but les baggages are livin’ la vida loca in SXM and we are expecting them tomorrow, which was a minor annoyance for me who fully believes in redundant systems (you know, like 3 separate sets of makeup, dresses, 4 pairs of shoes, bathing suits, coverups..), unlike DD who has exactly no extra anything... Well, as one of my friends says, “Not my pig, not my farm!”So in spite of that, we had a really lovely dinner at Le Guanahani after seeing old employees and making friends with the new ones..the menu isn’t really exciting , more like a steak house with fish with sauce or steak with sauce but a new addition were these adorable French bread rolls with a map of SBH on them! Yes, I ate two, and DD had a sort of whole grain herby mini baguette which he loved, but it is against my principles to eat bread with herbs, purist that I am. ( Don’t mess with my chocolate, either!) I put good salt butter on my rolls, too..can’t pass up French butter. I had a very large portion of Seared tuna with champagne and hibiscus beurre blanc (not a lot of great sauce choices for tuna there) but the tuna was perfect with a couple of pretty asparagus. If you order tuna, share! DD went for Chateaubriand with Béarnaise, very conventional and I think they are cooked sous-vide and then they put them on the grill. He said it was good, but I don’t like sous-vide cooked foods, so I was happy eating my tuna. We both had an excellent mai tai cocktail with passionfruit, a personal favorite.
Well, not sure when I slept last and since our gym clothes didn’t make it, I guess we have to skip a day and head to Super U in the morning after what should be a wicked good breakfast. If hiking up Le G hill from the beach/resto on stilettos counts as workout, (it is really steep! ), I’m good! Bonsoir for now and pray for my bags..who knows how hard they are out partying tonight…
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