title: Sunny Daze: The Humorous Misadventures of a Tropical Island Mom
author:  Faith R. Foyil 
description: "...laughs that flow like tanning lotion left out in the sun all day." -- <i>Linda Sharp, author of Stretchmarks on my Sanity</i><br /><br />"Faith Foyil adds an extra degree of kookiness to parenting." -- <i>Peter McKay, columnist for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and author of Welcome to the Nuthouse</i><br /><br />"Faith Foyil has written a funny and wryly observant guide to life as a Bahama Mama." -- <i>Judy Gruen, author of Carpool Tunnel Syndrome and Till We Eat Again</i><br /><br />"Faith Foyil offers a funny take on life in paradise with kids..." -- <i>Kristen Twedt, columnist, Hattiesburg American, and author of My Crazy Coastal Catastrophe Cat</i>
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  Island Nights' Entertainments
  
  
    
    
  The Beach of Falesa  
    
  [A south sea bridal  
    
  ](Island%20Nights%27%20Entertainments_split_001.html#filepos1722)[The Ban  
    
  ](Island%20Nights%27%20Entertainments_split_001.html#filepos26622)[The
  Missionary  
    
  ](Island%20Nights%27%20Entertainments_split_002.html#filepos70042)[Devil-work  
    
  ](Island%20Nights%27%20Entertainments_split_002.html#filepos94243)[Night in
  the bush  
    
  ](Island%20Nights%27%20Entertainments_split_002.html#filepos130676)[The Bottle
  Imp  
    
  ](Island%20Nights%27%20Entertainments_split_002.html#filepos157860)[The Isle
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  # Island Nights' Entertainments
  
  
  ### Robert Louis Stevenson
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### THE BEACH OF FALESA.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I. A SOUTH SEA BRIDAL.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I SAW that island first when it was neither night nor morning. The
  
  
  moon was to the west, setting, but still broad 