The first Friday in December is always a big night on the Island because it is luminary night. The entire bicycle path is lined with luminaries and the trees are full of twinkling lights. Most of the shops are decorated for  Christmas, open, and serving drinks and snacks that range from pizza to sandwiches to cookies and on and on. We are introduced to the new businesses and reintroduced to the ones that have been here for years. There are only 3 chain businesses on the island that I can think of; CVS, Subway and Dairy Queen. The remainder of the businesses are local. Jerry and I posed with the Hot Dog!

Jerry, Carole, Pete, Joan, Duffey, and I rode our bicycles two miles to Baileys where we began our journey back stopping at all the open shops. Along the way we see people we know and meet new people. Tonight it rained off and on but there were still hordes of people out enjoying the evening.

Today was also a good day for the group because Pete went and had a talk with the owners and they decided to give us back the fire pit and provide wood as needed! Now we need to work on the net! I guess if they did not do stupid things we would get bored.