Holiday time

What a Time

Well you can tell that I have been somewhere since it has been some time since I have blogged. Yes I went with my mother (left) and sister (right) and my nephew Jordan to Trinidad, my birthplace. It had been five years since I visited and I seized at the chance to go. I enjoyed every minute of it and loved the sound and warmth of the rain which showered us day after day. It was a time for old friends, the subject of another blog, and familiar food. For all that was the same there was so much that was different. Port of Spain, the capital has changed with many improvements. There are so many new buildings and it has the feel now of a modern city. The biggest and loveliest change is the new waterfront, the centerpiece of which is the newly constructed Hyatt where the Latin American heads met in April this year. It reminds me of the magnificent waterfront we enjoy in Cape Town but in a more tranquil setting. I stayed in the home of my aunt in Woodbrook, a town that has been transformed from a bedroom community of Port of Spain to a place of businessess and restaurants. I went to a shopping mall near the last home owned by my parents to find it now is a most upscale place with merchandise seen in some of the finest shops here in the United States. I went for a ride on the water taxi that now makes the trip to the center of the island a forty minute ocean ride, instead of two hours in congested traffic. It was so good to dip in the warm Atlantic Ocean here than in the cold waters in fish Hoek where I live. Above all, it was a blessing to enjoy my mother and nephew and sister, all of whom I miss so much in Cape Town. I am so grateful for them and the blessings of my cousins and their children all of whom made it an unforgettable holiday.