Day 72 More chores

Met Eric from Santa Barbara
Yesterday was a public holiday with all the stores closed so today Mark, Kurt and Andy headed to downtown Papeete in search of some boat parts while I walked to the nearby Carrefour market for supplies.
While the others were gone, I began working on my photographs. I have taken about 1700 pictures so far but had been unable to load any onto the Internet since Mexico. All the pictures are on the new Adobe Lightroom but the most detailed instructions for use are on the Internet so I have been struggling to learn how to use the program properly. With several days at a port and with access to the Internet, it seems a perfect place to get the photos in order and load them onto the blog site.
One problem with the pictures, from a blogging perspective, is that in their original form they are very large. When I had tried to load them, I found the connection did not have enough bandwidth to accept them.
To be complete, I will have to take all 1700 pictures, pick the best ones, edit them (every shot I take from the boat has a crooked horizon that makes it look like the ocean was draining out of the lower side), name them and the folder they go into and transform them to PC screen size. I began my work.
Kurt had met some young people on the dock and learned that the Marina restaurant - the Pink Coconut was the happening place on a Friday night so we decided to have dinner there and check it out. While we were there, Kurt met Eric Reiter from Santa Barbara. Eric's dad had always wanted to sail but his career prevented him from living his dream so he decided to buy a 52 foot sailboat and let his 23 year old son sail the South Seas with his surfing buddies and do the dream for him. What a dad!!
So Lara can tell us... do they have nice dads in Santa Barbara or what?
Actually, there is a lesson here. The trip I am on was discovered by Tim who would probably have done it in a heart beat if it weren't for his responsibilities. So what does he do? He has his dad do the trip for him. Now doesn't that balance out things for Eric's dad?