Our Daughter took us to Grand Bahama Island on a private Jet. It was my birthday on Christmas. I was totally surprised and I offered to split the cost.........
Of the Champaign.
I won't go into how we got this jet but my family were the only ones on it going and coming. It's a really exciting way to travel but most mortals, including me couldn't even afford the air in the tires of the thing.
It was a Gulf Stream 5. This one.
It is a small airport that only houses these types of planes. WE park right next to the"terminal" about 20' from the front door.
You go into this beautiful lounge where they treat you to Champaign, muffins, granola bars, coffee, etc.
The plane waits for you and you make the schedule so if you are late, the plane will stay there for you.
We walk to the plane that was right next to the back door and get in where the Stewardess, Hostess, cabin attendant asks us to sit anywhere we want. (or whatever is PC to call them but they were stewardesses when I first used to fly)
There is a bedroom, kitchen, couches and lounge area so no regular cabin seats.
The Captain comes back to chat a while and we take off. I have been on quite a few small planes but never small jets. They do shake more than commercial planes in turbulence but not much. Once you get above the New York, lousy weather it was motionless even at 550 MPH.
We land in Grand Bahama Island where someone greets us and takes us to this house.
On the way I noticed that much of the Island was devastated. I found out they had a number of hurricanes and the last one much of the Island was under 20' of seawater. That was horrible for everyone on the Island and there were huge hotels, brand new on the beach totally empty with no windows as they were all blown out. The wind speeds approached 200mph.
Everything in it's path was destroyed.
And this was "salt water" as opposed to Noahs flood which was fresh water. Or at least I think it was because it was assumed to be from rain.
It's hard to tell because Noah used a swing arm hydrometer which was arguably not very accurate. I understand he got it from his Great, Great, Great Grand Father Adam who gave it to him because he didn't have a pocket to put it in because it is hard to fashion a pocket into a fig leaf and Eve got tired of holding it. In those days the swing arm hydrometers weren't accurate because the arm was made out of acacia wood that was left over from the Ark of the Covenant. It was in the shape of a snake with an apple in it's mouth and the gold gilding on it caused it to sink.
Of course they didn't have plastic so the thing was made out of stone and you could only use it once. To read it, you filled it with water then gingerly laid it on it's side and smashed it with a coconut so you can read where the arm rested.
On a side note that not many people know about, Noah had a son named Strauss. He wasn't happy with the choice in clothes in those days as they only had a fig "leaf" to wear. He looked at it and figured if he could rivet a pocket into it he would be the first clothing designer which is how we got Levi Strauss Jeans. (Google it, it's in the Old Testament )
Anyway, we go into this beautiful house and check it out. It was beautiful but dated from the 80s or so and no one lived there for the last 10 years. The beach, pool and Jacuzzi was gorgeous.
There was also a huge Koi pond which had two huge tutles in it.
I will finish this later.
