One of the things with living in a small & relatively isolated island is that everything must be shipped here either by boat or plane. I would guess that 75% of the stuff here comes from the USA & Canada. The rest is from the UK, Jamaica and maybe a few other places like Panama. Most items arrive in large maritime containers ; boats arrive in port with these items at least 3-4 times a week.

Well, sometimes not all goes as planned. No butter this week-end since some sort of shipping error happened. Rest assured though, there was plenty of butter in other brands available.

Here is another incident we recently saw. Considering there are so many Georgetown’s in the world, I was amused and definitely not surprised to see this one:

I sure hope the Guyanans are enjoying our evaporated milk 🙂

On another note, Julie & I went for a drive and spotted this street sign. My French speaking readers are probably also puzzled. The correct wording would be “champs fleuri”, which means “field of flowers”. The spelling on this was somewhat off so we though that was a bit funny. It gets better, see next picture.

On the other side of that same sign, now they are waaaaay off on the spelling. They not only forgot the “i”, but inverted the u and the e! In Quebec where we are from, this would get people really upset. Here, I would not be surprised if the residents of that street did not even notice 🙂

On a final note, Julie now goes to a gym that opened at the shopping center near where we live (a 10 minute walk) She is really pleased since she can walk there. However, Niko, the neighborhood dog who I have talked about before also likes it that Julie stays close to home. He now follows her all the way to the gym (and across a busy street) and patiently waits for her outside while she does her workout. How cute is that???

Here he is, waiting for her when I came to pick up Julie after work the other day. Now to make sure he got home safely, we of course gave him a ride in our truck back to Savannah Meadows, our neighborhood.