A good number of the passengers came ashore for the day, and Jamestown was as abuzz as I have ever seen it. I heard a number of languages being spoken as I walked down Market Street. Dutch, German, Afrikaans, English and Saint.See "The Arch" with a good number of visitors walking through it.
Cape Villa Bible study was different today. Mrs Evelyn Alms had her 87th birthday on Sunday, and it was decided that we would cut the study short, and have a little birthday celebration. This lady used to do catering for a living, and it is said that she made the most marvellous wedding and birthday cakes. When Anthony lit the candles on her cake, her face lit up, and she shyly said "This is the first cake with candles I have had"....
I must confess that I was initially a little irritated by being told that we should cut the study short - and for the sake of a birthday party. Well, the Lord sure put me in my place. No study would have conveyed love to this lady, like that cake did.
Thank you Hazel for making it so easy for me to imagine being on the island! Lovely to think of the town being so full of people. You can bet your socks that I would have been in my usual spot outside the Cannister selling jewellery.
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