Chris And John: Peter Pan Buddies

Our first Friday night in town, we ended up in the Peter Pan cannery mess hall (when we're back in June, we'll tell you more about the cannery). Somehow Jim got to talking to a table of fishermen, including this classic duo, Chris and John. Ends up, they're living in the room below us, and we share a phone line (so that's why callers kept acting crazy when we told them there wasn't a John staying here). We made an agreement to answer the phone for one another, explain the cirumstances, and then hang up and let each other's callers leave a message. The next day, standing in the cannery buffet line, Sarah hears the gravelly voice of an experienced fisherman from the other side mumble, "Sarah, yer mom called." In the following days, we became fast friends with Chris and John, sitting together in the cannery, listening to each others' respective foreign tales of the sea and of health care, enjoying the heck out of each other. They are two of the friendliest, most unassuming guys we've ever met. In fact, they've made our whole King Cove experience this week. Apologies for the blurry picture of them above--they wouldn't stop laughing long enough for a good shot.