Working For The Weekend

Once again I got to bed late last night and once again deiced to get up with the first horn of the morning. This morning I learned that you need to listen to the horn before you actually get up. Almost all the mini-buses around here have very distinctive horns. They start honking them around 7AM. The cars around here have very regular sounding horns that may start honking at a much earlier time. This morning it was a close to 6AM horn that got me up, lol. Still, it was a lesson learned.

One of the wonderful things about living here is that I'm almost never tired once I'm awake and moving around. The sun is up in the bright blue sky before I ever get up and just hours before I go to bed the sun drops down beyond the sea. All day long I'm awake and feel up to working. When it's time for bed the sun has been down long enough that I'm sleepy. The environment here is fairly close to perfect for me. It really helps when I get to bed late and get up early.

Before I continue I have to share some pictures with you that Rachel took last night.


That's three of the boys under the mosquito net Rachel hung up for Ben last night. He decided he had had enough of being bitten in his sleep. So his Mom hooked him up :)

I got a lot of work done this morning before Dilian dropped by to let us know he was going into Roseau. It turned out that I need to go as well, so we decided to go together. Before we left some guys drove by the house selling eggs out of their truck. We got 30 eggs for EC$20.00. That's a bit more than we would have paid back home for plain white eggs, but less than we would have paid for brown organic eggs, which is what these were.


Shortly after we purchased our eggs we hopped the bus and headed into town. On the way I took a picture of the “rock ship” (for lack of a better name) pulled up at the dock beside the quarry in Point Michel. (They have some deep water right of the coast.)


I took a few more pictures while I was in town, but my mind was so filled with buying more electricity and paying my internet bill that I forgot to pull the camera out much. I did, however, end up on the balcony at Mrs. Bass's guest house in down town Roseau. She's a sister in the Church and Dilian had to go by to talk to her for a few minutes. In any event, here are the few photos I thought to snap.


I'm getting a lot more comfortable in town. I can pretty much get wherever I want if you give me time. It's amazing how much more relaxed you are when you know that you can make your own way home if you have to :)

By the time I got home it was time to goof off with Joey and play some D&D. After that the kids wanted to go to the sea of course. I snapped some more shots as we walked down to the beach.


And, of course, took more when we got down there.


Caleb found a shell that I thought was worth a couple of pictures. It's very beautiful and completely undamaged.


It has been a very busy week. I am really looking forward to doing as little as possible tomorrow. However, Rachel wants to go down to one of the locations where they shot one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. I'm not sure how long it will take, but I think it's within walking distance. So, I may be able to share some pictures of that tomorrow.

Anyway, I feel like I've been working for the weekend all week and it's finally here. So, good night from Dominica!