The "CONTEST" Story

It was an ordinary day. I just got my latest Caribbean Travel and Life magazine. My favorite magazine, but you know, I can read the entire thing from cover to cover in a night. Then I'm ready for the next one. Sad part is they only publish 10 times a year. As soon as I got it I opened to the "Postcards" section. Something like the letters to the editor section. For the past two years or so they have had a contest where you can send them a photo of yourself or of you and others reading CT&L while on vacation, and if they publish it, you win a prize. You have to make sure you include a note about when and where the photo was taken. Well, I have been trying forever it seems to win a prize. I know it is probably only a T-shirt or hat, or maybe an extension on your subscription, but it's still fun to try and see your photo in the magazine. The last one I sent was from the vendor's market in Marigot, St. Martin. Guess they didn't like it because the one that is published is some scuba diver and his wife holding the magazine under water in Shark Alley in Freeport, the Bahamas. Naturally there is a shark in the photo swimming towards them!! I guess that was better than my boring photo. Matter of fact, I liked it better than mine. In the past I have sent a photo of Carol and me with our snorkel gear on the beach in Barbados pointing while holding the magazine and a photo of Carol and me sitting in Mullins Restaurant in Barbados with the magazine. I am going to give it one more try. Carol recently took a photo of me on Happy Bay beach in St. Martin, a clothing optional beach, sitting on a lounge chair reading the magazine with just my hat on my head. See what they think of that pix. It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy. PS - Pix from the top are: Me in vendor's market in Marigot, Carol and I on the beach in Barbados, Carol and I at Mullins Restaurant in Barbados and the latest entry, me on the Happy Bay beach in St. Martin.