Sickly Sunday

Last night we had a wonderful storm. It rained like crazy and the wind was blowing so much water into our room that I had to get up and close the curtains to keep out the flood. I got up not feeling 100% and Rachel awoke plain out, old fashioned, sick. Ben is also under the weather. The other kids are in stages of sick and recovered. We may have pressed ourselves a little too much yesterday.

As a result of our general ill health the Scotts Head congregation had it's first “Ethridge free” Sunday since we got here. I puttered around playing games and working on my maze generator. I made a lot of progress and got a little relaxing done. I'm still burned out and wish I didn't have work tomorrow, lol. I love my job, I'm just not running on all cylinders at the moment. Of course, I may feel great by tomorrow morning.

Anyway, when I got up it was still pouring down outside.


Needless to say, the whole family spent most of the day inside. It's fortunate that I have more pictures to share with you from yesterday. Mainly it's just some shots of Pont Casse. We had to pass through Roseua on the way out. I actually filmed the trip from Soufriere to Roseua, but I'll have to share that with you another time.


After that we headed more into the “country”.


It's a beautiful place. I think we're really going to like it. Anyways, late in the day Caleb wanted me to take him to the sea. He was the only one that felt up to going, but I took him. When we got down there I decided we shouldn't go in because the weather had stirred things up a bit. It was cool, overcast, and the water was murky (at least for around here.) Caleb was a little disappointed, but he took it well. Maybe tomorrow the weather will clear up a bit.


That's all for the moment. I'm burned out and ready to call it a night. So, good night from Dominica!

Emerald Pool

Today was Saturday. That probably doesn't come as a surprise to most of you. If it was a surprise then you should probably get out more. Anyways, as a result of it being the weekend I wasn't working on my normal schedule. I still had my e-mail work to do, but after that I was able to work on my maze generator for a couple of hours. I'm adding a bunch of little features that should be useful no matter what generation method is used to make the maze. I made a good bit of progress before the Bellot's showed up to wait on brother Freddy.

We planned to go to Pont Casse today and, thank the Lord, those plans worked out. I had never been there before. I can now tell my parents that they are going to love it. It reminded me so much of our trips to the blue ridge mountains that it was almost like reliving childhood experiences. For them it's going to be a lot like heaven on Earth.

I'm also hoping that Mom Yates is going to like it. I think if we could get Dad Yates to come for a visit he would really enjoy it as well. :) I mention all this because the house we're planning to lease starting next month is located in Pont Casse.

It has a lot going for it. One of the cool things about it is that it's only about 10 minutes from Emerald Pool. That's something that is absolutely worth seeing. To share as much as I could I took a lot of pictures. In fact, I took so many that I'm not going to post them all today. I want to save some for tomorrow. Either way, let's get started!


It's not really a 15 minute walk IMO. It might take 15 minutes if you meander, lol.


You get some pretty good looks at the pool as you approach.


That waterfall will just about beat your brains out.


By the way, that water is COLD. It is almost as cold as the water in the blue ridge mountains. For some reason it didn't seem to effect Felicity though...


Felicity found a snail and Caleb was given a toy crab by one of the ladies selling things. (He was in a bad mood... The gift lifted his spirits a good bit.

Anyway, enough pictures. Now for some video :)



Uncle Grover, if you don't recognize what we were doing in the video and pictures they call it “living”. You may want to give it a try before it's too late, lol.

On the way back brother Freddy's car battery died. Fortunately, we were close to home and a friend was able to run another one out to him.

Needless to say, it's been a full rich day. I hope to share some more of the trip with you tomorrow. For the moment, however, I wish you a very good night from Dominica!