The plan for the day was shopping and PAN-O-RAMA. After breakfast Dave dropped us off at the newer, bigger Prickly Bay boatyard and went to run some errands. We got a taxi from there to downtown St. Georges where the big market is. AS SOON AS WE GOT OUT OF THE TAXI, this guy named Randy appointed himself our "Tour Guide". We said we were thirsty so he takes the girls and I to a street vendor and orders the girls a water and an orange Fanta, and a beer for himself. I pay. He won't stop being our tour guide so after about 15 minutes we tell him 2 or 3 times we don't need him, so he tells me he usually gets paid for his service, so I give him $1 US. He looked insulted but I say "Hey, you got a beer and a dollar and we really didn't need a tour guide, so that's pretty good." That was the last we saw of Randy. Phew. There was another obnoxious pushy guy trying to sell us "black coral" necklaces that was a little harder to get rid of. Lucy got 2 little braids in her hair for $2 EC. That was cool. Man, that place was packed and crazy, though, so we got out of there and went to a place called Boulengerie for lunch. Good food. Nearby was an indoor mall-type market that was much more civilized and AIR CONDITIONED. We bought a few little souveniers there, including a tie-dye t-shirt that has a rasta-mon smiley face that says "smile, mon". Cool. I determined they don't have Fanta Red Creme Soda here, even though Fanta Orange is everywhere. I would figure out why this is later. We went back to the boat and took it easy for a couple of hours, then ate a rushed dinner so we wouldn't be late for PAN-O-RAMA. We ended up being about 2 1/2 hours early, but no big deal. Everything is late/slow in Grenada. The Panorama was at the National Stadium, which is a complex with a cricket stadium, a soccer stadium with a track, some tennis courts and a few other things. Once the show finally started, we learned they had a new part of the steel pan band competition that was just for the rhythm sections, or "engine room" parts of the bands, called that because they are not usually seen but basically drive the band musically. That was OK, but it took until 10:00 and we only planned to be there until 11:30. When the full stell drum orchestras started, the first one on was Cable & Wireless Commancheros, and THEY WERE AWESOME. Something like 172 instruments on stage. What a sound. The energy just makes you want to shake yo butt, so that's what we did. For the 2nd band, we went down on the grass in front of the grandstand and shook our butts, and I think I was on TV. :) By the end of the 2nd band, it was time to go. :( It would have been great to stay and hear all of the bands, but that would have taken until 3 AM. Taxi -> dinghy -> boat and we were sawin' logs.

P.S. By the way, I had a "creme soda" at Panorama, and it tasted like it had rose water in it or something. Very different from the creme soda we're used to, and probably the reason they don't sell Fanta Red Creme Soda in Grenada - it wouldn't taste like creme soda to them.