Today is Noah’s 11th birthday, and we start with his favorite breakfast of pancakes, complete with 2 matches burning (no candles) as we sing happy birthday. Today is Saturday, and we have read that there is a farmer’s market in town today with lots of baked goods and pastries. Figuring this would be the perfect place to get a cake, we head in. Unfortunately there must not be a lot of farmers on Vieques, there are only 2 tiny tables of items. One with lettuce and the other with mostly jams and breads with nuts. He does have chocolate cookies, so at least Noah doesn’t go away completely empty handed.
We head down to the beach, and hike along the rocky shoreline while collecting sea glass. Noah is happy that he gets to rock climb on his birthday. As we are making our way back, the rain starts pouring down. When the rain stops, we make it to Lazy Jacks for pizza. Something Noah has also been waiting for all week. The local beer is Medalla and I feel obligated to try it. It reminds me of when I felt I had to have a Lone Star beer when at the rodeo in Fort Worth – terrible. But the pizza and calzones are great.
After lunch we walk the beach down to Sun Bay. Tracy and kids find so much sea glass, their pants are falling down from the weight. Sun Bay is a nice beach, but there are no concessions or snack bars for the ice cream we were searching for.
We head back out to the boat so Noah can make some birthday phone calls, and we can cook up the kingfish from yesterday. I grill it this time, and its our best fish yet. Even though it was only half a fish, there is enough left for another meal.
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