Tropical Diversion: Still In St. Martin-but that's ok

Well, we have been in St. Martin almost two weeks. A little longer than we expected. We thought we would be heading to St. Barts by now but while we were in Marigot Bay, which is a very clean bay, we were running our water maker and Wes heard it make a real weird sound. So he shut it off to check it out and some how the whole inside was covered in oil, which is a very bad thing for a water maker. The only thing we could think of was someone up wind dumped some oil out of their bilge and it went directly into our water maker. So we were told to go over to the dutch side to a place called Electec to see if they could help. Audrey there was very helpful and was able to order us a new membrane. She said that it should be here in a week. Well, 10 days past and we still hadn't heard from here so Wes ran back over there last Friday and she said that it should be there that afternoon or Saturday morning. But when Wes went back over there on Saturday it wasn't there. Come to find out they put it on a boat rather than a plane in Puerto Rico so now it won't be here for another week. WOW, it sure is island time around here. All those songs that we thought were so funny "it'll be ready tomorrow!" seem to be so true.
In the mean time I decided that I wanted to watch a couple of episodes of NCIS on the DVD so I went to turn the TV on and it didn't go on. I went over to the control panel and saw the tv switch was off so I turned it on and proceeded to watch. When I was done Wes could hear something running down where the water maker is. OK I had a severe blonde moment. I forgot that the tv switch is actually the high power motor for the water maker and when I turned it on it burned up the bearings in the motor because no water was running through it. I thought Wes was going to lose it, but he was very understanding and calm and said "I've done worse things". He took the motor over to the guy at Electec to see if he could help and he told Wes to clean it out good and gave him a new bearing for $8 (like this is going to fix it haha) But Wes did as he said and put it all back together and it actually seems to be working. We will find out for sure when we get the new membrane in. But I couldn't believe it. I was certainly relieved that we didn't have to get a new motor since they run around $400.
It really isn't too bad being stuck in St. Martin though. There are definitely worse places to be stuck. We've actually been spending most of the time over in Grand Case which is just East of Marigot. It has a really nice beach that the dogs love to run on and it's a lot less busy. There are some very good (and very inexpensive) restaurants along the beach as well. It's seems like most of the cruisers around here are French though so we haven't really met anyone or talked to too many people, seeing as neither of us can speak a lick of French.
Well, I guess we will see if the part comes in on Friday so we can keep moving on down South. But I'm not holding my breath.