After a lovely couple of weeks it was time to head back to the boat with our 300 lbs of boat gear, Since I had gone through customs in Martinique back in January without a hitch and several hundred pounds of gear, we thought we could breeze through customs. We were the first ones off the plane and the 1st ones to collect our bags. Maybe it was the 6 huge bags or the extra large box of additional solar panels, but we definately did NOT BREEZE through customs. This time we didn't have time to create a list, so the customs official had us unback every bag, and since everything was wrapped in bubble wrap it took over and hour and a half to show here everything. By the time we were done, there were probably over 200 people waiting to go through customs. I'm sure they were NOT happy to be standing around. 

Out of the 6 bags and 1 box of solar panels, we left he airport with only 3 bags. Luckily, I had mentioned that we were working with Allana with Phenomenal Agent Services. After all that, we were only charged $125 in taxes from the Customs. The total cost for getting everything out of customs through Allana was $360 USD. She defiantely made it easy and was able to get our large list OK'd by the customs officials, as we had a huge order from Amazon and we weren't able to give them the type of invoices they are used to seeing. Lesson learned: Keep all your invoices and have them ready to give to the customs offical. I am not sure if it would have been quicker or not, but I would recommend having an agent before you leave the country, so when you come back you have someone who knows the path to getting things through customs. If you are bringing items to Grenada I would definately recommend Allana with Phenominal. Her WhatsApp # +1 473 420 7688. 

Next order of business was to get new passports. Although our Passports are good until 2031 we are already running out of pages. We were told to make an appointment with the US Embassy in Grenada, I was told, the only way to make an appointment was through their website. The website didn't work, so I had to email back and forth to get an appointment, eventually I was able to get an appointment overe a month after I had started this process. They didn't tell us what we needed to bring or any forms that we needed to fill out, so I figured they would have that when we arrived. We arrived at the US Embassy, and then were told we didn't have any of the forms or photos, so they couldn't help us, and that we were supposed to make another appointment on their website. Which was IMPOSSIBLE, as the site is broken! Blair finally called the emergency number to get us another appointment as the people working at the embassy we definately NOT helpful. The Embassy is now closed and it's principle contact for US citizens, has left. I am not sure what US citizen are supposed to do now that the embassy is essentially disfunctional. If you have to get a larger passport, I don't recommend doing it in Grenada. I hear that the US Embassy in Trinidad is pretty good.  ( I didn't even know that getting another passport with more pages was possible, until our friends on Lover of the Light told us, that you get get passports with a larger number of pages. ) Ahh... The challanges of living and traveling to so many countries.