Wow Malibu... I LOVE going to NOLA and the mornings just don't start without a coffee and beignet from Cafe du Monde... I could sit there all day and people watch.

Hahahahaa OK Denny so your cooking up those tasty morsels huh?

I have lived on an Island before but they had a 15 car ferry running out from the Reservation in Washington State Fresh Salmon..YUM and Whale Watching are the pastimes there.

I'm confused. You were on a Reservation in Washington State called Fresh Salmon?

Sorry my punctuation sux.. I was on an Island off the Lummi Indian reservation (tribe is not well known) it is called Lummi Island. it is outside Bellingham Wa. my brother and his wife and my parents are still out there on the Island.It is very close to Canada.

why am I having such a problems with the smilies??do i have a setting wrong?

Denny: I LOVE beignets. I have made them at home several times, have to cook them outside or all that oil stinks up the house

I remember one particular morning in NOLA, and I hope I am not repeating myself here - especially since it isn't even the cocktail hour yet, Mr Gouto and his friend infiltrated a dry cleaning convention to get at the free booze and oysters and other goodies they had. We were staying at Royal Sonesta there on Bourbon. This dry cleaning company had a suite of rooms w/balconies on Bourbon street. Boats full of oysters, open bar.....etc etc. The guys literally had to act like they knew about dry cleaning. The friend said he had a route driving a truck for them; can't remember what Mr Gouta pretended to be. I had gone to bed early, had to read my book ya know. The next day they couldn't get out of bed. I must of sat at Cafe du Monde for 4 hours people watching. When hubby finally got up he couldn't stop laughing telling me about how they pretended to be these dry cleaning people!!

sassy no problems with the smilies. They just look different before you click on 'add reply'.

We went to all the little islands up your way, San Juan, Orca, Friday (? Fidalgo?) um um um??? Can't remember them all.... Beautiful! Loved it there and the stay in Seattle for the last 2 days brought some of the best eats I have ever had. Fo Sho. Went to Canada as well, the Garden place there close to Victoria - Butchart Gardens I believe. Beautiful place well worth visiting.


You know the fresh salmon tribe of the North West. Saw a PBS special on them just last night. They used salmon skins for clothing. Ain't nothin' better to protect your feet from those NW Pine cones than salmon skin slippers.

Malibu Washington is pretty Country with BIG Ferries that can carry 18 wheelers and tons of cars to all the Islands you mentioned ...I have lived and travelled all over the US and I dooo love NOLA those crazy cajuns are a whole lot of F*U*N !!

the smilies show up as words to me like instead of the face till I edit...very strange but I will figure this out sooner or later... :rolleyes: will see if that worked..

I saw apost on another thread about lodging so I will look there for a rental but anyone with info please leave it for me...thanks

Hmmmmmmmm strange. Didn't realize you were editing the smilies each time. Sorry can't help you there.

Maybe Marty or someone will see this and email you with the solution. I am VERY surprised that it didn't happen to me - I am severely technologically impaired...laugh.....

Ah yes, the old Lummi people....

The Lummi people traditionally lived near the sea and in mountain areas and returned seasonally to their longhouses located at a number of sites on the present reservation and on the San Juan Islands. Smoke-dried seafood, camas bulbs, sun-dried berries and all species of shellfish, crab, salmon, trout, elk, deer, and other land and sea mammals made up the traditional Lummi diet. The Lummi people continue to speak the traditional Salishan language. They expressed their language and religious traditions through elaborate carvings on totems and ceremonies.

The Lummi Reservation is seven miles northwest of Bellingham, Washington, in the western portion of Whatcom County 95 miles north of Seattle. The reservation is a five mile long peninsula which forms Lummi Bay on the west, Bellingham Bay on the east, with a smaller peninsula of Sandy Point, Portage Island and the associated tidelands. The Lummi Nation signed the treaty of Point Elliot in 1855 ceding much of their aboriginal lands in western Washington. In return they received a reservation that originally covered 15,000 acres. Today, approximately 12,000 acres remain in Indian control. In 1948 the Lummi Nation adopted a Tribal Constitution, amended and ratified in 1970, which created the present government structure. The Lummi Reservation is governed by an 11 member tribal council. All tribal members are members of the General Council which meets at least once a year at which time one-third of the Tribal Council is elected. The council appoints tribal members to serve on committees that oversee tribal enterprises on behalf of the Council.

Are you part Lemmi??

Being 1/4 Ogalala Sioux, I am interested in all original peoples.


As far as the little faces, in your postings you will see the word eek, etc, but when you click Post, the message board turnes the words into the little object.

AAAhhhhh Very Good Denny! No I am not part Lummi but we did own property on the reservation for a time and had some "interesting" conversations with the tribal council over water rights and us wanting to dig a well and them wanting us to hook onto their water system.My brother is a Fireman/Paramedic in B'ham and was volunteer Fire/Rescue on the Res. and my S/in/law taught at the tribal school early on,it was all resolved finally.Now everyone in the family lives on the Island.You have to go thru the res. in order to get to the Island by ferry,it is around 20 miles or so to the Interstate from there. I have been on MANY reservations in the US and the Lummi's have the prettiest one,alot of waterfront properties are being sold off tho,kinda sad to see the developement but It's better then deteriation I guess.

NOW about dat Lobster!!! ..

Whooo hooo the gremmie's are fixed I had them disabled!!

ok I did my homework.. Someone PLEEEZE correct me if I am wrong...

If you own your own business you DON"T need a work permit and that would include Sub-contracting out to say..a SPA! If you hire they must be Belizean (good rule) unless you can prove the training isn't available for that particular job and you need to hire from outside.

****What DO you need instead of work permit as an owner?? I am sure the goverment wants some way of tracking income...

***Bring MONEY*** as you won't get rich in Belize ..OK I am happy at this point in my life with eeking out a living and hanging

Anything else I need to know as I alway prefer to go into things with my eyes wide open...

In reading the back posts I feel lucky that their is actually a possibility of Massaging out a living in Paradise, thanks for any and all info from y'all I hope I can swing this venture