We arrived in St. Kitts on July 9 but spent the rest of the day in our room. We still have jetlag from the flight from Manila to San Francisco. Add another jetlag from San Francisco to Miami to St. Kitts. Triple jetlag. We had dinner outside the hotel, about a 5-minute walk to Rock Lobster. Today, we had a buffet breakfast and were still feeling packed to have lunch. By 5 pm, we were hungry but alanganin to eat something. The welcome reception was scheduled from 7 to 9 pm but since gutom na kami, we were there by 6:40 pm but wala pang tao except for the bartenders, waiters, and one respected lawyer, professor, a businessman from Guatemala, Carlos.
I was wearing a short blue dress, and the wind blew my skirt up to my waist a few times. When I had the chance, I ran to our room and changed into pants and a simple linen blouse I had recently bought from the San Francisco Premium Outlet in Livermore. Karen, the executive vice president of Exiger, a publicly listed company headquartered in Canada told me she had learned her lesson. She’s been here in St. Kitts many times in the past and in the beginning she also liked to wear short dresses and the wind blew them up so now she never wore short dresses anymore.
Since we’re hungry, I ate a lot of lobster pasta. So far the best lobster pasta I had encountered. The chef cooks it for you right there and lobster here abound, you can add as many lobster meat as you want. Yummy.
Edmund and I met people from different countries. Anna is Canadian. Karen is Canadian, Amit is Indian doing business in Dubai but has offices in India. The good-looking siblings from Dubai who own the big company RESPECT speak very good Tagalog. They employ many Filipinos and has high praises for our kababayans. Mabait at masipag talaga tayong mga Pilipino pag nasa ibang bansa, pero pag nasa atin, mga tamaditis at pasaway. Bakit kaya?
The Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. Terrence Drew came at a little past 8 pm. Ambassador Rosalyn told us beforehand that Dr. Drew was coming from Tobago so he would really be late. When the Prime Minister arrived, he didn’t look a bit tired. He was warmly interacting with the guests, gladly shaking hands. He wore a big smile that says Welcome to St. Kitts.
