My sister Carrie decided last minute to join us for a portion of our trip. She is spending 10 days sleeping on our sofa bed and lounging on the local beaches with us. Like me, she is not one to pass up any opportunity to travel.
The mornings that Tom goes to the gym allow she and I time just to hang out together. We saw each other in June at our family reunion but so many other family members to visit with didn't allow any time for just the two of us to be together.
We share a love of beach combing so each new beach has been an opportunity to hunt for beach glass. We have found small bits of glass, predominantly green, on each beach. The Holy Grail of beach glass was Grand Case Beach, which is on the French side of the island. I told Carrie that it was like shooting fish in a barrel. Glass washed up with every wave and at the eastern end of the beach big chunks of glass sat like bits of shiny candy in the sand.
While I was looking for glass on Grand Case, a local girl named Sylvie, saw what I was doing and joined the search. She began to bring me handfuls and invited me to walk down the beach with her in search of more. She found the prize of the day for me, a chunk of cobalt blue... a color among the more rare. The best part for me was that she never asked what I was doing or why, she simply joined in the hunt and shared her bounty with me.
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