Well, our first week is officially over and we are still loving the Caribbean. We have been able to start getting settled in. We rented a car for the week so that we could spend some time exploring the island and we have had a blast! We went for a trip around the island and wow is the driving different (Mike would love it!) There are only 2 stoplights and 3 stop signs on the entire island and we didn't go through any of them. People here go on what we will call the buddy system. Basically how this works is you just drive and hope your buddies don't hit you! If you want to go first you go first, if you want to stop and talk for 20 minutes to your "buddy" you do and everyone else just waits patiently. However, if you venture to the French side it's not always so patiently! (Gotta love the French.)
Anyway enough about the driving now on to the weather. Yes, it is correct that Hurricane Dean went through down here but it was about 250 miles south so all we got was some wind and a lot of rain. Leave it to the great travelers from Indiana to decide to try the 3 mile hike to the school pushing their two small helpless children in a bike trailer just as the worst of it hit the area. Luckly for us there were plenty of spots to take cover however, it seemed that every time we found cover it would stop raining and then everytime we started out again it started raining. I will say though that the islanders are very friendly (at least they are if you have children.) We had about five different people offer to drop what they were doing and drive us home, but seens how we were already soaked we figured we might as well continue on. We're so dedicated!
Other than that we have just been having the vacation of all vacations full of sightseeing, sunbathing, and swimming.
I also thought I would post a picture of our view from the patio at sunset last night so that you could all be jealous.
Later everyone,
Matt
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