Saturday Night

Well, it's Saturday night at 10:30pm and I'm sitting alone at home! Haven't done that in a while. H has gone to school to look at the cadavers cause he has two exams on Monday and Tuesday. The weather here is so weird! We woke up to a beautiful sunny day. So hot that we had all the fans on full blast and we were still sweating! Then this afternoon it was cloudy but still quite hot and humid and now it's torrential downpour with thunder and lightning! I tried to get some pictures of the lightening but I wasn't quick enough and then the battery died on my (Rehman's) camera. Oh well, it is supposed to be like this for the whole month so I'll keep trying. I can only imagine how creepy it must be for H to be in a room with 7 cadavers listening to the thunder and lightning. Seems like the perfect setting for a scary movie. Well, I'm gonna stop thinking about that before I scare myself! Everyone seems to go home very quickly once the rain starts. The bar downstairs is closed already and it was packed about half an hour ago. Oddly enough, there is a man that keeps yelling things somewhere down the street. I can't quite make out what he's saying but I'm pretty sure he's drunk!

I had a really relaxing day today. Went for a nice walk then read, painted and went to the glass blowing studio to clean the beads I made last time. They turned out beautifully! One looks like a little rose so I made a nice keychain with it! One of the girls from SOS stopped by today cause they were hanging out having smoothies at Saba Snack just down the road. People here just come right to your door- nobody really bothers to call! I love it! And we always have our door open so it's really fun to get visitors throughout the day. The other daily visitor we have is a lizard that hangs out at the window sill in front of H's desk. He comes right inside just past the window but hasn't ventured in further. We were feeding him some little bugs that were right by the window so I think that's why he keeps coming back! He's really cute but we should probably stop feeding him or he may tell his friends!

Lizzy the Lizard

I woke up this morning with a huge bump on half of my lower lip! I woke up in the middle of the night and it felt like I had been biting my lip while I was sleeping or something like that so I assume that's when it happened. H looked a little scared of me this morning and when we looked at it more closely you could see where I had been stung! So gross to imagine some little rodent crawling on my face and into my mouth. My lip is basically back to normal now so it wasn't anything dangerous. I was told a story about the giant caterpillars that live on the island coming through an open window and biting a tourists head. When he woke up he had a massive bump on his head and he was losing his hair on that spot! Not all of our windows have mosquito nets so ever since hearing that story we've been making sure to close those windows at night.

So, remember how I was talking about the straps on my dresses and tank tops ripping at the seams? Well I've encountered a new issue. Glue seems to lose it's adhesiveness! I have a new pair of flats that the soles are coming undone already and the bead on one of my necklaces popped off today so looks like I may need to get some superglue or a glue gun.

I think that's all I have to report. Oh yea... we finally got our phone number with MagicJack!! So this means that anyone in Vancouver can call us for FREE!! So please call us!! We would love to hear from everyone! Well, the drunk man is screaming again. I'm gonna go check it out. Hope everyone is doing wonderful! Talk soon

Oh my goodness! Harris just got home and told me that he saw an albino monkey cross the street on his way home!!! You dont understand... when we first got here H was asking the locals if there were any monkeys on the island and a girl told us that no there weren't any on the island but a local had brought one over from St. Maarten but it had escaped and she had never heard about it since. How strange is that!! And we just went to go brush our teeth to go to bed and there were 2 tiny frogs in the bathroom! Goodness so much wildlife!!! I am not used to this but I better get used to it!!