Fresh mango, cantaloupe, apple bananas and kiwi fruitas for mornings on our deck with coffee comes from the fruit/vegetable truck which stops at our Land's End home a couple days a week. Times like these are our opportunity to speak Spanish with the local people. We are finding the need to speak Spanish with about 1/2 the people we come in contact with. Restaurant owners, hoteliers and bartenders tend to be English speaking expats; teinda (small store) workers, street vendors, taxi and boat taxi drivers speak only Spanish. As Southern California gals, we all grew up with school Spanish and restaurant jobs with Spanish speaking immigrants, so we are getting by easily. Amie's year abroad in Italy and travel in Costa Rica gives her the gold star as communicator in our group.
Even the Roatan wildlife is happy. The 5 deer on the property get frisky with each other and frolic around the property. They tease each other, then lope away, hiding under the cabin buildings, or jumping rock wall into palapa area! Small black and yellow fish on my backyard reef do a frisky frolic thing as well. First they are all spread out over their coral head, then they come together in a vertical column then sprint out in different directions. Too cute and entertaining these deer and fish!
"Estamos en el Caribe... Relax" reminds the chalk sign hanging in Land's End open air breakfast lounge area. Today is the day for just that, all day long! Relaxation at is best is lounging in the hammock under the palapa overlooking the Caribe with a great book, Loving Frank; 
bobbing in the saltwater pool on a raft; snorkel in the backyard waters; escape the afternoon heat in AC room; sunset happy hour on our lanai. Dinner is one of the best yet at our closest neighborhood restaurant with an over the water deck, view into Half Moon Bay and out to sunset, with yum yum yummy crispy coconut shrimp, fish, and lobster meals for us.
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