Hat trick

Yes, that's Robert stage left at the Tropic Saturday night.

Julie Andrews -- OK, it was really Christopher Peterson -- was announcing that his head full of edelweiss had captured a top prize at the evening's sold-out "Sing-Along Sound of Music."

With native edelweiss in short supply on the island, he had to settle for some greenery purloined along Southard, a fistful of baby's breath, a bit of styrofoam, a hair band and some florist's wire.

Partici- pating loons also included a cloister's worth of nuns, several brown paper packages, doorbells and sleigh bells (yours truly) and a well-choreographed front row of Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La and Ti.

Speaking of La and Ti, Robert won tickets for a show and drinks at La Te Da, which has come a long way since José Martí made it his home here, delivering revolutionary rhetoric from the balcony.