Daily report #89

Dear followers,

It was a lovely day for a wedding yesterday. For the first time this week the sun shone abundantly, you felt spring and the wind was less strong.
In the morning we did the formalities. Check out, pay and stamp passport. That's the great thing about traveling a little further, you get those nice visa stamps again. It was a party in the harbor! The companies were allowed to empty their containers and it was a huge display of goods. It was counted, carried, inspected, inspected and in between, customs checks what comes out and whether it matches the loading notes. Trucks with cartons of milk, mattresses and sofas, seed potatoes and much more drove through the village and in the shops the shelves started to fill again and were immediately empty again. This will undoubtedly achieve a good balance once the initial shortages in people's homes have been replenished. After the formalities and a coffee at Anns we started dressing up and getting ready for the ceremony. Neatly too early we arrived at the “castle” where the governor resides and where Tara and Steven were to be married in the reception room. Stately hall with several portraits of the now deceased queen and of course also a smaller one of King Charles and his wife. At half past four Tara and Steven entered the room. Tara wore a beautiful white dress that was made in two days by a tailor in the village. She had a beautiful bridal bouquet that Steven had picked together the days before.
Steven had Tara on his arm and with the other he held the belt behind his back that turned out to belong to the bartender of the hotel, but he definitely had a larger hip size. There were four witnesses, Ton and I and Dustin and Shanon. Dustin was the guide with whom we explored the island for two afternoons. The official made it a neat ceremony and then we were allowed to place our signatures in the large register book of St Helena and of course on the marriage certificate. How beautiful is that our signatures on Tara and Steve's marriage certificate are immortalized on a spot in the Atlantic Ocean! Time for a party! Champagne! Wedding cake and muffins! Presents! And music! A little dance! And finally, lots more champagne! We hugged and thanked us for being there and then...it was time to go to the boat. Dress up, take off and so at 9 p.m. we floated back into the ocean, filled with champagne and beautiful memories. And today? Oofff, we sway through the day with our weak bodies.
See you tomorrow!!

Ton and Mark