Family dinner at Tio Tom's is like eating with your own family, if you happen to have a German uncle who drinks a lot and fancies himself the Blackest White Man in the Caribbean.
My dinner was tasty -- grilled vegies (including chayote), fried eggplant, rosemary potatoes, mojito. The company was fun and we talked about the island and about chayote and the Panamanian president and the fact that Tio Tom means Uncle Tom. (Yes, they know.) Everyone was in good spirits. Tom had been drinking all afternoon and was in especially good spirits. Tia Ina tried to shut him up by kissing him on the mouth but that only lasted a few seconds and then on he went.
I left to purchase chocolate and ice cream and when we were done eating, Nadiv and I got ready for bed and then sat in our cabin watching and listening to the rain fall on the water outside. It was a delicious night.
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