Everything I going great here in paradise we have doing a lot of walking and a fair amount of beach time the last couple of weeks, we have meet some new people and are continuing to expand our horizons here in St.Vincent!
So here we go I will do my best to catch you up, Kohl and I decided to go for a little walk a couple of weeks ago, we had been stuck in the house for a couple of days because of all the rain we are getting and he and I were going crazy so I put Katelyn down for a nap and told Jacob we were going on an "adventure"!
We headed up the street not really going anywhere and Kohl is still pretty whinny about walking more than 30 yards so as we got about 1/2 a mile from the house he starts in on wanting to go home but I just needed to walk a little longer so I told him we were going to go and explore a new beach and he pepped right up!
We dashed across the street (seriously you have to run for your life here) and headed down to the beach known as Indian Bay we had never been there before so we just followed the two ladies in front of us and they lead us right to it! It is beautiful there are a lot of "mini" islands just about 10 or 20 yards off of the shore, one of them there is actually a rock path all the way over to it if you get down there on a low tide day you can walk right over to it without getting too wet but this was a high tide day so you couldn't see the path very well and after Kohl's incident at church the previous Sunday we had to keep his foot out of the water so we walked around on the sand for a while and picked up some really huge pieces of coral that wash up all over the beach Kohl thinks they are sea shells no matter how any times we tell him that it is coral and we just had to bring them home!
After about an hour or so we decided to head for home carrying our new home décor, can I just tell you 1/2 a mile is a long way to walk with 30 lbs of coral in your hands that your adorable blue eyed 4 year just can't leave the beach without! We finally make it home and Kohl can't wait to show dad his "sea shells" so Jacob comes out with him and says "dude that not sea shells that is coral" Kohls response "no dad! these are my sea shells.....get it right!" Never a dull moment at our house!
So the next day we decided to head back down to Indian bay again but take Katelyn with us so Jacob could do some much needed studying and to get the kidlets out of the house so I take my phone and $5 and the two kids and we head out! We walkout on to the sand at the beach and start picking up more coral to take home and it begins to RAIN....not just rain torrential down pour! There was no where for us to go no trees close by no nothing, so what do we do....stand there and just let in pour down on us LOL we were giggling and laughing about it, well Kohl and I were Katelyn wasn't amused by any of it! It let up a little bit so we started playing again and walking down the shore line to some other beach and we run into a family playing on the beach with there two kids so of course Kohl invites himself to the party and they had a good a time 10 minutes later DOWN POUR again so I run for the trees with Katelyn figuring Kohl would be right behind me WRONG.....he heads for the water and jumps in! I yell to him "what are you doing its raining" he yells back "but mom I am already wet from this rain" how do you argue with that? We were completely soaked to the bone so I did what any good mommy would do I went over to the water and told him to be careful and have fun! He played for over an hour with his new friends and had a blast, Jacob wasn't to ha[[y when we got home and his foot was soaking wet but a little alcohol and some "sporine" and he was good to go!
On our walk home that day it rained the whole time, Katelyn was asleep in my arms and we were walking up a street and a lady says to me "please take my umbrella, your baby is so wet" I politely declined her offer and told her we would be fine, after 3 more offers she finally gave up. We turned the corner to get on to the main road and another lady says to me " where is your umbrella? you should always carry an umbrella in St. Vincent" she laughed at me when I told her I left it home because I didn't think we would need it.
We finally made it home and head for the shower to get cleaned up and dry and Jacob comes in and says to me "I was beginning to wonder if you were going to make it home" and the laughs hysterically at us because we look like drowned rats!
After our rainy day we decided to stay in the nest day and just chill for the day which worked out because it rained a lot that day too, we are in hurricane season here right now but the Island is usually never hit directly by any of the passing hurricanes because we are on the very bottom of the hurricane belt so we get a lot of rain and some pretty scary wind storms but they haven't had a hurricane make it to land for a long time, I believe the last hurricane to hit the island was back on the early 70's
that doesn't mean you aren't prepared for one but they don't anticipate them either.
We convinced Jacob to take a short study break on Friday of that week and go for a walk with us back down to Indian Bay, it was a much calmer day and the tide was out so we could see the rock path they lead over to one of the "mini" islands but we still didn't want Kohl walking over there without better shoes on so we made plans to go back another time and walk over to the other island.
We strolled down the beach for a while and let Kohl play in the water because weather we wanted him to or not he was getting in....we finally got flipper out of the water and were heading home so that Jacob could get back to the grind of things and we ran into Brother Drake from our branch and we had a good talk with him and he showed us his talents for carving on what they call a Kallabash it is a type of gourd he gets and he carves designs into them and sells them for a living. It is really neat to sit and watch him do it he has some physical limitations so to watch him work is really amazing. I am pretty sure we sat and watched him for an hour or so and just had a good talk with him about church and meeting new people and serving and we talked to Jacob a lot about school.
We parted ways with Brother Drake and headed for home, it was nice to get out with Jacob for a while and just relax we don't see him a whole lot because of the demands of school which this may sound weird but its great! He is doing well and enjoying it too, we miss him but wouldn't trade this time for anything!
Saturday I had my usual trip into town for groceries and my "alone" time Jacob calls it. Which I really do enjoy I like walking around and seeing all of the things in the different stores and talking to different people I have been able to find something new every time I go down.
Sundays have become a little difficult for us we live about a mile and a half from the church and it is nearly impossible to catch a bus on Sundays here so we have had to walk to church for the last 3 weeks and it is a challenge trust me when you have the two small kids and you have to walk that far it is very tempting to just stay home and not worry about going but we don't we make the trek and we may be sweaty and smelly when we arrive but by golly we get there! I have teaching primary for 3 weeks now and I am enjoying it a lot but I really struggle with the ciaos and limited structure that we have, I have said before the church is still very young here on the island everyone is learning and the primary kids are not exempt from this! I was very frustrated after the first 2 weeks of teaching so when I got there this last week I was able to talk with Sister Bird a little about how I was feeling and she just listened to me and talked to me about it she is amazing I absolutely adore her and her patience she has with me, after talking with her I was feeling much better this past week when I began to teach the lesson and it went really pretty smoothly I was actually able to feel the spirit there and felt like the kids were taking in what I was saying! That is always a good feeling!
Well everyone life continues to go on here I will be writing another post about my adventures last week and Jacobs first exam! Your piece of paradise................
The water is so clear here I love that you can see where you are walking
attached to it....it is a sea urchin! You have to watch really close for these
island behind it they do a lot of cliff diving off of the smaller
island.
"little T" Island!
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