Red Rock one more time

On Wednesday, while Keith was back in class, Alex and I decided to go to Red Rock with some other "spouses" and her friend, Marisol. The sea was extra rough so we really couldn't swim in it but it was so beautiful. The waves we're the biggest I've seen. I could of sat there for hours watching it.

After taking a couple of pics of Alex and Marisol making sand castles I went down to the water and a huge wave came, washing my camera away. I was quick to grab it, but it was all wet! I was told to take the battery out and let it dry for a few days before turning it on. I couldn't wait and later that night I put the battery in and it turned on. The camera is OK but I think the viewing screen is a little messed up.

We have a busy week this next week. Monday, we will hopefully find out where we will be living. On Wed. I plan to climb one of the mountains in Dominica, Morne Anglais, and then on Thursday go cliff jumping. Not sure if I will have the guts to do it. It's a 50ft jump into the Atlantic ocean. We'll see!

After Mini Fun

Yesterday Keith had his second big test of the semester. He has two more to go before the end of the semester and before we can head home!

Last night we went to our neighbors house for a few hours. Alex had a lot of fun playing with her friends, and Keith had some fun playing the Wii.

This morning I asked Alex what she wanted to do, and she said she wanted to go make sand castles with daddy. So we decided to walk down the street to the ocean front. This area is normally where the fisherman are, but since today is a holiday (Independence Day) I figured they wouldn't be there. When we got there we realized it was too dirty with garbage scattered everywhere to build sand castles. So we decided to keep walking, and pretty soon we ended up at Purple Turtle Beach. A little farther than we we're planning to walk, but that's OK.

Click below for the pics:

2009-11-03 purple turtle beach with daddy

Slow Down!! Iguana Crossing

The school put up this new sign and I have always been meaning to take a picture.. but someone else I know got a picture of an iguana crossing in front of the sign! You can click on the picture to enlarge it if you can't read the sign.

One picture I really really want to get before leaving the island is a cow at the drive thru speaker of KFC! I saw it once but didn't have a camera on me!

Happy Halloween from Dominica

We have celebrated our second Halloween in Dominica. They don't celebrate that holiday here, but at least the school and the Ross Spouses Organization put together activities for the kids. The kids love dressing up and getting candy! This year Alex was a Princess. It was easy and we got the costumes from someone who left the island last semester. Alex had two different dresses to wear, one for friday and one for saturday! She loved it!

Click below for the pics:

2009-10-30 Halloween

Happy Creole Day

Here is Alex at school in her Creole dress. They are having a presentation with students and faculty about Dominica's holiday. Today is a day where Dominicans speak in their french creole language and dress in traditional creole clothing to celebrate their independence. They have spent the last month celebrating their independene. On November 3rd is Dominica's independence day, and this year it will be 31 years!

I had to have someone else take this picture. I was sitting in the back of the room. I knew if she saw me she would not sit with her friends. She did end up seeing me after a while and ended up sitting with me throughout the presentation.

Dinosaur Fossils

Alex has really really been into dinosaurs! She now wants to become a Paleontologist to study dinosaur fossils. She loves to read dinosaur books, watch dinosaur shows, play with toy dinosaurs, and sleep with her stuffed dinosaur "bob" the T-Rex. She eats, sleeps, dreams, and lives for dinosaurs! She talks to me about them everyday! She is very good at knowing the different dinosaurs. She knows which ones eat meat and which ones eat plants and she can look at a picture and identify various different dinosaurs. Even dinosaurs that most people haven't heard of like Parasauralophus, iguanadon, oviraptor, protoceratops, etc.!

The other day her little friend Sarah came over to play while her little brother took a nap. After having lunch, painting, and watching Dora we went outside to find dinosaur fossils. The pic above is Alex and Sarah pretending to be Paleontologists!

Alex Videos

Here is Alex singing her "version" of This Old Man. She is so cute!


This video is of Alex playing with the green water at the Montessori school at Crescent Moon.