Wind and Waves

Wow! a super windy day with lots of huge waves crashing onto every beach. We are going shell hunting this afternoon, see what washed up. I bet our friend Andrew has his surf board out.

Bob got a wild hair and took us to the Jamaican Bakery this morning and literally ordered one of everything. Maybe he is bi-polar? We came out with a dozen little brown paper bags showing grease stains. Everything was baked this morning, and won't be any good tomorrow. Pressure's on! Literally, I can't button my pants.

Ava tried to hack up a lung last night in addition to the sea water she inhaled. No swimming again today, and we might just break down and take her to the pediatrician. Bob thinks I'm crazy (but not bi-polar, just "crackers" ) but I swear her breath still smells like sea water. I finally got up in the middle of the night and gave Ava a dose of Robitussin so I could sleep :) She never woke up while taking her medicine, and she didn't drink quite all the syrup out of that little plastic cup so I set it on the bureau-- and this morning, it was clean and dry. Those crazy ants! Punch-flavored Robitussin.

Got to catch up with Dr. Rick Ishmael, our mad scientist friend. He's teaching now at the medical school while working on starting a cancer clinic using his very own cancer drug. He has investors and everything. Sometimes they fly in and he takes them out to dinner and will bring us along. His wife and son haven't moved here, so he has this huge house up on the mountain all to himself with a fenced in Jurassic-park-like garden that you can get lost in. Ava loves going exploring in his yard and came up to the house dragging an impressive a 30-foot length of bamboo that Rick had cut and left on the ground. So he made us all walking sticks out of it. The monkeys were all over his yard. The mangos aren't ripe yet but there are two other things in his yard the monkeys will eat so he never gets a break from them. Of course, we think they are great!

More on Wind and Clouds in homeschool, then it's on to lambs, eggs and birds & Easter. I brought a bunch of empty eggs to fill and hide. The Nevisians fly kites to celebrate easter, which is kind of cool. Will now bring Ava in for some learnin'. She's outside playing in a pile of construction debris. She can spend hours out there. Third World Charm!

(YES, she is current on her tetanus. I know you were thinking it.)